President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 in 1941, which outlawed racial discrimination in the federal workforce and defense industry. President Dwight Eisenhower, another Texan ...

A federal judge has told government agencies to restore public access to health-related webpages and datasets they removed to ...

Below, the ACLU explains the history, function, and limits of a presidential executive order. What Is an Executive Order? How Is It Different From a Law? Article II of the Constitution vests the ...

President Donald Trump signs the No Men in Women's Sports Executive Order into law in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Feb. 5, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images ...

The NCAA responded to President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep biological men out of women’s sports on Wednesday night. Trump signed the "No Men in Women’s Sports" executive order in ...

Donald Trump has rescinded an executive order from President Joe Biden that sought to lower the price of drugs.

Trump's order, backed by Musk, limits federal hiring and calls for workforce cuts, agency restructuring and efficiency improvements.

An executive order is a signed directive by a U.S. president on how they want the federal government to operate. Using the force of the law, these orders range from federal employee holidays to ...

A second federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, saying it’s likely unconstitutional and “runs counter to our ...

Donald Trump is returning to the White House ready to immediately overhaul the government using the fastest tool he has — the executive order. An incoming president signing a flurry of executive ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday banning transgender athletes from participating in women's sports, fulfilling a promise that was at the center of his 2024 campaign.

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order declaring that it's policy of the federal government to only recognize "two sexes, male and female," reversing the ability of Americans to mark ...