WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal. Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget, directed the CFPB to
It’s a swing and a miss from U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who earlier this week directed his department to prioritize projects in communities that have birth rates higher than the national average. In an undated memo, Duffy said any Department of Transportation-supported or assisted program — including all grants, loans, and contracts — should
Once television’s biggest child star, Frankie Muniz, decades after “Malcolm in the Middle,” is on the comeback trail. This week sees Muniz, 39, in theaters with a dramatic turn as a lonely if brilliant introvert in “Renner.” In April he reunites with his “Malcolm” costar Bryan Cranston to film a 4-episode, Disney+ decades-later reboot of
By ASHRAF KHALIL WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is considering next steps in a slow-moving court case over whether to release documents that could spell legal trouble for Prince Harry, with an influential conservative think tank seeking to reveal if he lied on his immigration paperwork about past drug use or received special treatment