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I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. Even as the White House ...
President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of top officials at the Library of Congress and equally sudden attempt to appoint a ...
Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative ...
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who represented Donald Trump in his 2024 New York hush money trial, has been appointed ...
President Donald Trump fired Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, via email at 6:56 p.m. ET on May 8, 2025. Critics are ...
The Library of Congress, a 225-year-old Washington institution, has never had a moment like this.
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First, the Library of Congress is a research library. Only Library of Congress staff are allowed in the stacks to peruse the ...
Hayden made history in 2016 as the first woman and first African American to run the Library of Congress. Her firing arrived ...
Lawmakers are raising separation-of-powers concerns as the White House seeks to install a Justice Department official at the ...
U.S President Donald Trump fired the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, in part over her commitment to diversity, the White ...
Seven former National Ambassadors for Young People’s Literature have announced their opposition to the Trump administration’s ...
The Library of Congress, a 225-year-old Washington institution, has never had a moment like this. A week ago, the Trump administration fired the longtime librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden.