The confrontation turned physical on May 12 when Paul Perkins and Brian Nieves, two Justice Department officials, showed up at the Library of Congress to start work. Perkins, it has been reported ...

Trump had longtime Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden dismissed via email late on May 8, drawing broad condemnation from her supporters in Congress. Hayden holds a PhD in library sciences and was ...

The Trump admin is trying to take over the Library of Congress, "a major component of the legislative branch" that confidentially advises lawmakers. advertisement. Rolling Stone.

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.

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 ...

BALTIMORE -- Darth Vader proclaiming he's Luke Skywalker's father, John Travolta preening in his underwear and an early 20th-century deaf activist communicating in sign language are among the ...

The Library of Congress is not a community lending library. By law, it stocks pretty much every copyrighted book published in the United States. And it doesn’t allow children to access its holdings.

It is disputed what legality, if any, there is for Trump’s ongoing power grab at the Library of Congress. According to two sources familiar with the matter, even before the internal message was ...

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 ...

Hayden was serving a 10-year term as the Librarian of Congress and would have been up for reappointment next year. The library's collection is intended to include the "world's most comprehensive ...

President Trump’s firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden this week marked the arrival of the conservative culture wars to the world’s largest library.. At its core was the intersection ...