The Defense Department says it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to come up with plans to cut 8% from the defense budget in each of ...

National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in ...

"Those who we need, who are the best and brightest, are going to stay. Those who are under performers — won't," said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The first firings of Defense Department civilian probationary employees are expected to start next week, with about 5,400 set ...

Before she had even unpacked her Washington, D.C., apartment after making the move from Alabama, Katie Sandlin became one of ...

The National Science Foundation fired 168 federal employees, marking one of many agencies who fired probationary feds at the ...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. — An off-duty New York City firefighter was arrested early Sunday morning in Manhattan, authorities said. William Nolan, 27, a probationary firefighter with the FDNY, was taken into ...

But because Hill was starting a new role, he was on probationary status when President Donald Trump ’s administration began ...