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U.S. Education Department boosts funds for HBCUs, tribal colleges, charter schools
President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday it will redirect $495 million in additional funding to historically Black colleges and universities as well as tribal colleges. The U.S. Education Department’s announcement came just days after the administration decided to gut and reprogram $350 million in discretionary funds that support minority-serving institutions over claims that these programs are “racially discriminatory.”
Sep 15, 20252 min read
E.P.A. to stop collecting emissions data from polluters
(Environmental Protection Agency photo) The Environmental Protection Agency moved on Friday to stop requiring thousands of polluting...
Sep 12, 20251 min read
DOJ is sharing state voter roll lists with Homeland Security
Alaska among states that have turned over its voter list and other data at behest of Trump administration.
Sep 12, 20254 min read
Trump moves to scrap Biden-era rule that protected public lands
The proposal from the Bureau of Land Management would prioritize the use of public lands for oil and gas drilling, coal mining and other industrial activities.
Sep 10, 20251 min read
Major disaster declarations are taking longer under Trump
Disaster survivors are having to wait longer to get aid from the federal government, according to a new Associated Press analysis of decades of data.
Sep 10, 20251 min read
Trump campaigned on closing the Education Department. Reality is more difficult.
President Donald Trump’s aim to shutter the Education Department faces steep hurdles in Congress, where Republicans’ legislative efforts to abolish the agency remain stalled and appropriators have rejected many of his proposed cuts to education spending.
Sep 5, 20255 min read
Governors split over mobilizing National Guard as Trump seeks more troops
Republican governors want National Guard members to help ICE, in addition to deploying to Washington.
Sep 4, 20259 min read
As Florida plans to end all vaccine mandates, Western states form vaccine alliance
The contrasting moves come amid turmoil at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sep 3, 20253 min read
ICE arrests fell in August despite show of force in DC, Los Angeles
Despite the assistance of armed troops in U.S. cities, federal immigration officials recorded fewer daily arrests in August than in July and remain well short of a Trump administration plan for 3,000 arrests a day, according to a new report.
Sep 3, 20252 min read
Murkowski takes aim at Trump administration’s ‘unlawful’ pocket rescission
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) criticized the Trump administration Tuesday for what she called an “unlawful” attempt to yank back roughly $5 billion in government funding previously approved by Congress.
Sep 3, 20251 min read
Police agencies lower education standards as staffing shortages persist
Some research suggests college-educated officers use force less often and elicit fewer complaints.
Sep 3, 20257 min read
More states guarantee students the right to school-day religious instruction off campus
Faith groups teach youth on ‘released time’ from public schools.
Sep 2, 20255 min read
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