Paulette Jiles, a horse-riding poet and historical novelist who evoked the grit and grandeur of the American West in “News of the World,” died at 82. A fossil of a young carnivorous dinosaur fetched over $30 million at Sotheby’s. The auction house had estimated its value at $4 million to $6 million.

Lower-court judges have already blocked several Trump's policies including an asylum ban at the US-Mexico border.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a judge’s order preventing the Trump administration from conducting mass layoffs across the federal bureaucracy, for now. The court in its unsigned ruling said

The Tuesday decision said that Trump's executive order directing agencies to develop workforce reduction plans is likely lawful.

Seven lawyers who spoke with Reuters cited a punishing workload and the need to defend policies that some felt were not legally justifiable among the key reasons for the wave of departures.

OPM’s guidance offers some leeway to the Trump administration’s policy requiring most federal employees to work in the office full time.

A federal judge again barred President Donald Trump 's administration from enforcing his executive order limiting birthright citizenship nationwide after the Supreme Court restricted the ability of judges to block his policies using nationwide injunctions.

The Education Department has pledged to carry out required functions, but questions remain about its plan for contending with the loss of staff.