WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department will release $1.3 billion in previously withheld grants for after-school programs, days after 10 Republican senators sent a letter requesting the Trump administration to allow frozen education money to be sent to states. President Donald Trump’s administration on July 1 withheld more than $6 billion in federal grants for [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Sarepta Therapeutics last week said it won’t comply with a request from the Food and Drug Administration to halt all shipments of its gene therapy following the death of a third patient receiving one of its treatments for muscular dystrophy. The unusual move is a latest in a string of events [...]

The Trump administration has imposed new restrictions on flights from Mexico and threatened to end a longstanding partnership between Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico in response to limits the Mexican government placed on passenger and cargo flights into Mexico City several years ago. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Mexico’s actions to force airlines to move [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — China’s state security agency says it is cracking down on alleged smuggling of rare earths minerals that it says threaten national security. The move comes weeks after Beijing and Washington agreed to make it easier for American firms to obtain from China those materials, which are critical for manufacturing and computer chip [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — All solar and wind energy projects on federal lands and waters must be personally approved by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum under a new order that authorizes him to conduct “elevated review” of activities ranging from leases to rights of way, construction and operational plans, grants and biological opinions. The enhanced oversight on [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Make American Coke Great Again? President Donald Trump last week said that Coca-Cola has agreed to use real cane sugar in its flagship soft drink in the United States at his suggestion — though the company didn’t immediately confirm such a move. Any switch from high-fructose corn syrup in Coke sold in [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Trump administration last week revoked federal funding for California’s high-speed rail project, adding uncertainty about how the state will make good on its long-delayed promise of building a bullet train to shuttle riders between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The U.S. Transportation Department announced it was pulling back $4 billion [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate last week passed about $9 billion in federal spending cuts requested by President Donald Trump, including reductions to public broadcasting and foreign aid, moving forward on one of the president’s top priorities. The 51-48 vote came after Democrats sought to remove many of the proposed rescissions during 12 hours of [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Travelers giddy about being able to keep their shoes on while walking through TSA checkpoints at the airport again may have something else to look forward to: changes to how much liquid they can carry. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week said during a conference hosted by “The Hill” that she [...]