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IT’LL TAKE YOU 25 YEARS. THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY PASSED A RESOLUTION THAT WOULD STRIP $300,000 OUT OF THE LIBRARY BUDGET AND ADD IT TO THE MENOMONEE FALLS POLICE DEPARTMENT. IN 2026. OUR LIBRARY ...
The Pierce County Public Library System’s operations have been affected for nearly a month after it was targeted in a cyberattack. Library staff confirmed on Monday that an “outside entity ...
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 ...
A day after Columbia University called in the New York Police Department to arrest more than 70 pro-Palestine protesters who had occupied a library reading room, the university and its affiliate ...
WSJ explains. Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP WASHINGTON—The Library of Congress—long a sleepy, noncontroversial staple of the nation’s capital—has become the latest battleground in President ...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) Tuesday joined Democrats in pushing back against President Donald Trump's effort to install his own leadership team at the Library of Congress ...
The Washington State Library and the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library in Seattle are facing layoffs and severe cuts to services after lawmakers declined to include a $6.7 million lifeline ...
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 ...
Though the Library of Congress is part of the Legislative Branch, its director is appointed by the president, with Senate confirmation. On Monday, Trump reportedly selected Deputy Attorney General ...
Two senior Justice Department officials appointed by President Donald Trump to run the Library of Congress were denied access on Monday, according to a person familiar with the interaction.
Uncertainty gripped the Library of Congress on Monday as the White House moved to assert more control over the legislative branch agency, naming Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as its acting ...
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 ...