It was bad when President Donald Trump unceremoniously fired Carla Hayden as the Librarian of Congress, the first woman and first African American to be named to the role. But Trump added further ...

Donald Trump’s administration is attempting a hostile takeover of the Library of Congress — an agency that is part of the legislative branch and functions as its research arm in addition to ...

The president named Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, as the acting librarian. But staff members refused access to two department officials he chose for key roles at Congress’s main research ...

The surprise firing of the head of the Library of Congress and efforts to install Trump loyalists at the iconic institution have stirred bipartisan pushback on Capitol Hill. By Maya C. Miller and Carl ...

Donald Trump's administration is attempting a hostile takeover of the Library of Congress - an agency that is part of the legislative branch and functions as its research arm in addition to ...

Who is in charge of the Library of Congress: Congress or the president? Until recently, the settled answer in Washington was that the world’s largest library was, as its name states, a legislative ...

A stalemate at the Library of Congress continued Tuesday with no easy resolution in sight, as lawmakers considered how far to wade in. Citing “executive overreach,” House Minority Leader Hakeem ...

Alondra Nelson, while serving as Director of Science and Technology Policy for the White House, attends a meeting of G7 science ministers on June 13, 2022, in Frankfurt, Germany. Alondra Nelson, while ...

In a rare bipartisan effort to defend its institutional authority, Congress is quietly resisting President Donald Trump’s attempt to assert control over the Library of Congress — a move that experts ...

Hayden was the first woman and the first African American to hold the post. She was also the first person in the job to be term-limited. Her time was set to expire next year. "There were quite ...

[Subtitle:] The case is the latest example of efforts by the Trump administration to erase the traditional lines that separate the branches of government. [First two paragraphs:] The Trump White House ...