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 ...

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 ...

Whoever the President nominates for the next Librarian will be someone I look forward to working with,” said Rep. Robert B. Aderholt, R-Ala., a co-chair of the Congressional Library of Congress ...

Added Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, a Democrat: "Donald Trump just fired my dear friend Dr. Carla Hayden — the Librarian of Congress — via email. This is disgraceful.

A particular area of concern for Congress is the library’s database of all lawmakers’ research requests, another employee said, which dates back to the 1990s.

The Library of Congress has thousands of employees and archives more than 178 million items, including rare books, medieval manuscripts, a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence and a ...

Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden speaks at the media preview of the "Collecting Memories" exhibition at The Library of Congress on June 10, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Shannon Finney / Getty ...

The Library of Congress also has facilities in Fort Meade, Maryland, and Culpeper, Virginia. Others are reading: Indiana's top trading partner is Canada.

The firing is unusual as the Library of Congress rarely gets a new top librarian. Appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, Hayden was the first African American and first woman to serve as the ...

First Black woman to head Library of Congress fired by Trump over DEI concerns Carla Hayden has championed books by diverse authors. 'We felt she did not fit the needs of the American people ...

President Donald Trump intends to name Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche—his former personal attorney—to be the acting Librarian of Congress, the White House confirmed to Forbes, after the ...