President Donald Trump’s silencing of the Voice of America serves him two ways: Attacking the press and doing a favor for dictators around the world he so admires.

Since World War II, people worldwide have relied on the Voice of America for not only information about the United States but the world, as a news organization that has taken great...Read more

President Donald Trump held a ceremony at the White House Thursday as he signed an executive order that would dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

Trump, explaining the rationale for his action, rattled off statistics about education failures in America.

"After 45 years, the United States spends more money by far on education than any ...Read more

Hundreds gathered on Thursday afternoon in North Las Vegas to hear from Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about the state of the country and a vision for the future.

The progressive leaders were joined by Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., for a rally at Craig Ranch Regional Park, where about a thousand people packed a lawn as ...Read more

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have repeatedly attacked Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams over a $2 billion federal grant for energy efficiency projects that she had little to do with.

Abrams worked as an attorney for a nonprofit organization that, in partnership with four other groups, was awarded the grant from the U.S. Environmental ...Read more

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., vowed strong opposition to President Donald Trump's plans to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, warning that "the fight has just begun."

Trump signed an executive order Thursday to close the Education Department, fulfilling a campaign pledge to shutter the agency.

The Trump administration doesn't have ...Read more

Cuban American U.S. Rep. Carlos Giménez asked the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday to investigate and deport over a hundred Cubans accused of repressive activities on the island who are believed to have settled in the United States in recent years.

In his letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Giménez, a Republican from...Read more

After slashing its staff by nearly half, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to further dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

Describing the “breathtaking failures” of the country’s education system, the president said Thursday his order would “begin eliminating” the federal department.

“We’re going to...Read more

President Donald Trump defied the intent of Congress with his recent executive order targeting the Wilson Center and five other federal agencies for which lawmakers had crafted legally binding charters and then allocated funds the White House was required to spend, legal experts and sources said.

In a fundraising email sent Monday, Wilson ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the dismantling of the Department of Education, potentially fulfilling a longstanding goal of conservatives.

Joined by a dozen children and several Republican governors at the White House, Trump said he would dismantle the DOE and send more funding to the states.

“We have to get our children ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to largely dismantle the Education Department — an organization created by Congress and tasked with sweeping responsibilities that involve billions in funds that impact millions of American students.

The move is part of Trump’s vision to overhaul the U.S. government.

“We’re going to ...Read more

President Donald Trump was poised Thursday to order dismantling the Department of Education, potentially fulfilling a longstanding goal of conservatives.

White House officials said Trump would sign an executive order to “facilitate the closure (of) the Department of Education,” although most analysts say the permanently eliminating the DOE ...Read more

Criticizing court rulings is nothing new for the White House or lawmakers in Congress.

But this week, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk took it a step further — demanding impeachment and removal of judges who have been issuing rulings against the administration.

“IMPEACH. IMPEACH. IMPEACH,” read a Trump fundraising email sent out ...Read more

President Trump is calling for lower interest rates after the Federal Reserve announced it would hold them steady amid uncertainty over his plans for tariffs on imported goods.

Rejecting the traditional independence of the central bank, Trump Thursday called on the Fed to “do the right thing” and lower borrowing costs to keep the economy ...Read more

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to call a national election within days, seeking his own mandate from voters at a time when the country’s businesses have been shaken by a trade war with the U.S.

Carney, the former governor of two central banks, was sworn in as prime minister on March 14 after winning the leadership of the Liberal ...Read more

George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the time of the American Revolution, has been maligned unfairly.

During both the first and now the second term of President Donald Trump, commentators in the U.S. have invoked the king’s misdeeds to criticize Trump. When the president bypassed Congress to create a new government ...Read more

The fight in Federal Judge James Boasberg’s D.C. courtroom over whether President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to summarily fly Venezuelan immigrants to a Salvadoran mega-prison without trial or charge is a fight over the strength of our constitutional system. The phrase constitutional crisis has been getting a lot of air...Read more

President Donald Trump has claimed a mandate following his electoral victory, using it to justify “bold and profound change.” However, there is one substantial group of Americans who didn’t cast a single vote for the president — or any Republicans for that matter. They didn’t vote for any Democrats either. Yet, they will feel the ...Read more

Offshore wind, one of many energy sources that was going to help New York meet incredibly ambitious goals to decarbonize its power grid, is now dangling in the breeze, with President Donald Trump halting new federal leases and permits for offshore projects while the feds look deeper into their environmental and economic impacts.

It’s a ...Read more

The ex-director of the Trump Tower condo board in Chicago accused the owners and managers of the skyscraper of fraud in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, alleging they retaliated against him for speaking out about alleged financial malfeasance and had him arrested while he was taking a steam in the tower’s spa.

The complaint, which lists Trump...Read more

Thousands of University of California faculty and students gathered at UC campuses across the state Wednesday to condemn what they say is the Trump administration’s “assault on higher education” and to demand action from university and state leaders.

At Sproul Plaza on UC Berkeley’s campus, hundreds of faculty, staff and students ...Read more