Special counsel Hampton Dellinger says he is dropping his lawsuit to try to keep his job after President Donald Trump fired him. His decision comes a day after the federal appeals court in Washington temporarily removed him from the position,

A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to temporarily remove the head of an independent watchdog agency while the judges decide whether the president has the authority to fire him without cause.

A federal appeals court is allowing President Donald Trump to fire an official who investigates complaints from the federal workforce, lifting a lower court’s injunction that barred Trump from removing Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger.

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday over whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license certain nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the state of Texas as well as oil industry interests.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to convince the justices to block a storage site near the state’s border with New Mexico. Texas and a Texas-based oil and gas extraction organization argued the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacked the authority to approve a site to store up to 5,

The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to consider whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the states of Texas and New Mexico as well as the oil industry.