WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department will start firing more than 1,350 U.S-based employees on Friday as the administration of President Donald Trump presses ahead with an unprecedented overhaul of its U.S. diplomatic corps, a move critics say will undermine U.S. interest abroad.

President Donald Trump’s attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are so commonplace at this point that they barely register in financial markets these days. The rapidly intensifying multi-pronged efforts by Trump’s advisers to amplify and expand on Trump’s attacks are a good reason to rethink that indifference.

President Trump is trying to make Jerome Powell’s “life as miserable as possible” as he ramps up pressure on the Federal Reserve chair to lower interest rates or leave the central bank, a reporter who has closely followed Trump asserted this week.

When university president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.” But there are signs it may be part of a coordinated campaign to oust him.

On July 8, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel faced growing criticism from right-wing influencers and MAGA supporters after the Justice Department released findings that debunked key conspiracy theories long circulated about Epstein’s death and alleged clientele.

The man accused of plotting to kill Donald Trump in Florida has asked to represent himself at trial. Judge Aileen Cannon will decide if he can.

Why that day? Why Butler? Why were you such a mess in Butler? Were you told to be a mess? Were you told by someone not to do your job? You do your job every other time, why that day?”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) called on President Trump to fire Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after a new CNN report. Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week,