WASHINGTON — The U.S. Energy Department is proposing to shut down its Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations and cut roughly $9 billion in awards for programs regarding carbon capture, direct air capture, solar and hydrogen, according to documents seen by Bloomberg.

Under the plan, which isn’t final, the $27 billion agency’s staff would ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled for the Trump administration on Friday and lifted a judge’s order that had blocked the canceling of $148 million in grants for recruiting and training new teachers nationwide.

By a 5-4 vote, the justices granted the administration’s appeal and freezes the funding for now.

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Bayer AG said it’s seeking a U.S. Supreme Court review of litigation over the weedkiller Roundup, its latest effort to get beyond a mountain of legal woes.

The German conglomerate asked the high court Friday to take its appeal of a 2023 verdict from a St. Louis trial in which a jury ordered Bayer’s Monsanto unit to pay $1.25 million in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A second day of market devastation shook Washington on Friday, vanishing more than $5 trillion in value in one of the largest 48-hour losses on record — an extraordinary rout caused not by pandemic, war, terrorism or bank failure, but by policy set by the American president.

The policy, announced by President Donald Trump on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A second day of market devastation shook Washington on Friday, prompting a small but influential group of Republican senators to partner with Democrats in a nascent effort to wrest back control over tariff policy from President Donald Trump.

The policy, announced by Trump on Wednesday, would levy steep tariffs on nearly every ...Read more

As President Donald Trump launches a global trade war by imposing sweeping double-digit tariffs on major trading partners, Caribbean governments are trying to understand what it means for their already vulnerable economies, while bracing themselves for the ripple effects.

“We need to work these things out,” Trinidad and Tobago Prime ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Pennsylvania Attorney General Office’s Bureau of Consumer Protections won’t be taking further action on the complaints made by more than a dozen Pennsylvanians who received unsolicited $100 checks following the 2024 presidential election that appeared to be from billionaire Elon Musk’s pro-Donald Trump America PAC.

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Congressional Republicans on Friday were negotiating a possible compromise to allow remote voting for new mothers after President Donald Trump urged them to find a solution to the dispute that threatened to derail his broader legislative agenda.

In a major climbdown, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson was haggling over terms of a solution to...Read more

With a deadline to sell itself or be banned in the United States just hours away, TikTok got another last-minute reprieve from President Donald Trump on Friday.

"My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "The Deal requires more work to ensure all ...Read more

Democratic U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey made history on April 1, 2025, when he stood on the Senate floor and spoke for 25 hours and five minutes, delivering the longest floor speech in the history of the U.S. Senate.

Booker’s speech detailed his concerns about President Donald Trump’s new executive orders, other policies ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday asked world leaders to spare California from levying retaliatory taxes on goods imported from the Golden State, invoking its economic power as the world’s fifth largest economy.

“Donald Trump’s tariffs do not represent all Americans,” Newsom said in a video, referring to the president’s new �...Read more

DETROIT — The aftershocks from President Donald Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs have reverberated around the globe as trade partners unveiled retaliatory tariffs, stock market indices plunged and automakers announced plant shutdowns and other production changes.

Tariffs of 25% on vehicles imported into the United States began being collected ...Read more

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the puzzle?

We are experts in economic development and social movements. Our new research uncovers what we believe to be a surprising and ...Read more

Florida leads the nation in the number of immigrants with Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.

Soon after taking office, the Trump administration moved to scale back protections for the largest groups of these immigrants – those from Haiti and Venezuela.

TPS applies to immigrants from designated countries that the Department ...Read more

The U.S. State Department declared on Feb. 20, 2025, that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, as well as some Mexican drug cartels, are now considered foreign terrorist organizations.

Is the new label warranted?

Tren de Aragua is at the center of a controversial immigration case that the Supreme Court is going to consider.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said he believed Iran was willing to engage in direct talks over its nuclear program, a day after Tehran indicated it would only negotiate through intermediaries.

“Forget about letters, I think they want to have direct talks,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday.

Trump said his preference was ...Read more

A former Missouri GOP chairman and key leader of the “Stop the Steal” movement who defended a Kansas City-area Proud Boy in his Capitol riot case faces a contentious confirmation battle as President Donald Trump’s nominee for Washington, D.C.’s top prosecutor.

Ed Martin, who led the state Republican Party from 2013 to 2015 and was ...Read more

For years, White House press conferences included sign language interpreters for the deaf.

No longer. Interpreters have been noticeably absent from Trump administration press briefings, advocacy groups say. Gone, too, are the American Sign Language interpretations that used to appear on the White House’s YouTube channel. A White House webpage...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two new Smithsonian museums meant to honor the contributions of women and Latinos have been tied up for years as fights over their location and content have raged.

Despite these snags and the Trump administration’s vows to snuff out many diversity initiatives, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is projecting optimism this Congress...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The food day begins early for the poorest students in the Los Angeles Unified School District — with breakfast available before the start of class. Then there's breakfast-for-all brought to the classroom, followed later by a snack, lunch, more snacks for after-school programs and sometimes a dinner sent home for the child.

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