The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Trump-appointed leadership plans to fire nearly all its 1,700 employees while “winding down” the agency, according to testimony from employees.

The fire started around 1:55 a.m. (1755 GMT Tuesday) along a shanty community in Manila’s port area and was put out nine hours later. The Philippines has a patchy record in enforcing fire safety ...

February 1, 2025 / 11:28 AM EST / CBS/AP President Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden Administrator holdover.

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, posted a letter Saturday on X to President Donald Trump that he would no longer serve in the role.

The bureau is an independent agency and housed under the Federal Reserve, and the president selects its leader. Chopra was appointed to a five-year term that would have ended in 2026.

The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said Tuesday that there were fewer fire incidents in the country in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year. In a public briefing, BFP ...

In 2020, the high court narrowed the Humphrey decision when it allowed Trump, in his first term, to fire the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, another independent federal agency.

CEBU CITY — Gov. Pamela Baricuatro bared a number of fire safety violations in the Cebu Provincial Capitol complex, citing findings from a comprehensive report submitted by the Bureau of Fire ...

The 88-year-old Cebu Provincial Capitol, considered the heart of the province’s government operations, has been found non-compliant with multiple provisions of the Fire Code of the Philippines ...