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Scott Turner delivers his opening remarks during a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing for his pending confirmation on Jan. 16.

The Senate has confirmed Scott Turner to lead Housing and Urban Development

The former NFL player served in the first Trump administration, promoting investment in distressed neighborhoods. Turner has said HUD is "failing at its most basic mission."

PBS Black History Month Block Party

PBS is celebrating Black History Month by throwing a Block Party! Whether you like history, music, documentaries, food, and science, we've got something for everyone to watch. Stream shows with the PBS app and KPBS Passport!

A U.S. Postal Service employee is shown loading parcels outside a post office in Wheeling, Ill., on Jan. 29, 2024.

USPS flip-flops on Hong Kong-China packages, lifting a ban imposed a day earlier

The U.S. postal service is reversing course a day after it said it would not accept packages from China and Hong Kong. The ban came after the U.S. imposed an additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods.

FAA restricts helicopter flights near DCA airport after midair collision

Federal authorities have restricted helicopter flights near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The move comes days after a deadly collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter.

President Trump has threatened to impose steep tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada as early as Saturday. Mexico supplies more than a quarter of all the fresh fruit and vegetables in the U.S., including avocados which are popular for Super Bowl dip.

Businesses, shoppers brace for higher prices if tariffs on Mexico and Canada imports start Saturday

President Trump renewed his threat to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada as early as this weekend. The move could raise prices on everything from gasoline to guacamole.

Fog surrounds a Coast Guard vessel with a crane as it works near the wreckage of a Black Hawk helicopter in the Potomac River on Friday near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va.

41 bodies recovered from D.C. plane crash site as search continues. Here's what to know

Authorities are combing the Potomac River for a second day in search of victims and more clues behind the deadliest U.S. air crash in over 20 years.

Howard Lutnick, a billionaire Wall Street CEO whom President Trump' has tapped to lead the Commerce Department, appears before the Senate Commerce Committee for his confirmation hearing.

Trump's pick for Commerce Secretary is Howard Lutnick. Here's what to know

The billionaire Wall Street CEO fielded questions about tariffs, China's AI progress, broadband access, allegiance to Trump and the revival of American mining and semiconductor production.

The International Revenue Service headquarters building is seen on August 21, 2024 in Washington, D.C.

Trump invites nearly all federal workers to quit now, get paid through September

Through an email blast, federal workers were given the opportunity to resign from their jobs before Feb. 6 and retain full pay and benefits through Sept. 30.

President Donald Trump has promised to greatly curtail the federal government and a memo released Monday by the Office of Management and Budget aims to follow through on that promise by halting a large swath of federal grant programs.

Judge pauses Trump's federal funding freeze as confusion and frustration spread

A federal judge has paused a sweeping new plan from the Trump administration to halt categories of federal spending.

President John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, during a news conference after his arrest in Dallas, on Nov. 22, 1963. Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby two days later, on the eve of Kennedy's burial.

Big reveals are unlikely in Trump-ordered Kennedy and MLK document drops, experts say

Historians say the Trump-ordered release of more information on the killings of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. could be interesting but unlikely to rewrite history.

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