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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 121 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 124 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 101 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 101 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 55 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 49 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 33 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 32 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 31 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 37 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 25 min read
The national suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth shut down. States are scrambling to help.
Participants come out to walk and support the Out of the Darkness Walk in Chicago in September 2024. (Photo by Barry Brecheisen/Getty...
Sep 16 min read
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