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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will move thousands of employees out of the nation’s capital in a reorganization the agency says will put them closer to customers while saving money, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said. Around 2,600 workers — more than half of the Washington, D.C., workforce — will be moved [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University announced last week it has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus. Under the agreement, the Ivy League school will pay a $200 [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Trump administration last week canceled a $4.9 billion federal loan guarantee for a new high-voltage transmission line for delivering solar and wind-generated electricity from the Midwest to the eastern part of the country, but the company indicated that project would go forward anyway. The U.S. Department of Energy declared that [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced a trade framework with Japan, placing a 15 percent tax on goods imported from that nation. “This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs — There has never been anything like it,” Trump posted on Truth Social, adding that the United States “will continue to always [...]
The United States announced this week it again will pull out of the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency because it believes that its involvement is not in the country’s national interest and that the agency promotes anti-Israel speech. The decision comes two years after the United States rejoined UNESCO after leaving in 2018, during [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health-care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances. If approved, the changes unveiled this month also would affect working conditions at construction sites [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump last week signed into law new regulations for a type of cryptocurrency, a milestone for an industry that has spent heavily to strengthen its legitimacy and political might. The GENIUS Act sets initial guardrails and consumer protections for stablecoins, which are tied to assets such as the American dollar [...]
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 [...]