The Defense Department says it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place.

National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to come up with plans to cut 8% from the defense budget in each of ...

Before she had even unpacked her Washington, D.C., apartment after making the move from Alabama, Katie Sandlin became one of ...

Warren Hill spent more than two decades working at the Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, which spans 4 million acres in ...

The Defense Department, which is the largest government agency, says it's reducing its civilian workforce by 5% to 8%.

Federal workers, particularly what’s known as probationary workers, are preparing for sweeping layoffs. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broad efforts to significantly shrink the size ...

according to counts from workers groups and those familiar with the cuts, as probationary workers were targeted across the government. By Coral Davenport and Chris Cameron Reporting from ...

The nation's most distinguished health agencies fired thousands of probationary workers, starting Feb. 13 and extending into the holiday weekend, in what is becoming informally known among federal ...

The firings of probationary employees and workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Mr. Trump’s directive to shutter diversity, equity and inclusion offices, and the president ...