Did America really build a flying saucer? During World War II, the U.S. developed the Vought XF5-U, a bizarre, disc-shaped aircraft meant to change aerial combat. But why didn’t it take off?

Hundreds of pages of communications show career officials grasping for clarity in the weeks after the CFPB’s acting director, Russ Vought, ordered Feb. 10 a total stoppage of all “work tasks.” ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau–an agency that oversees financial regulations in the U.S. States–has come to a standstill under the leadership of its new acting head, Russell Vought.

The Freedom Caucus’s power is expanding beyond the halls of Congress with the appointment of Russ Vought as White House budget director. Vought, a conservative whose brass-knuckled approach to ...

was able to kill Roe v. Wade. Vought sees Trump as a critical ally, even if he doesn’t agree with him on a day-to-day basis or on many issues. At the very end of Trump 1.0, the Trump team began ...

(RNS) — The college’s social media post about alumnus and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought has led to two open letters that reveal competing interpretations of Christian values.

Now at the helm of the bureau, acting director Russ Vought intends to gut the agency. Vought has already shuttered the agency headquarters. In a memo obtained first by RCP, the acting director ...

In President Donald Trump’s first term, Russell Vought was a largely behind-the-scenes player who eventually became director of the influential but underappreciated Office of Management and Budget.