Linda McMahon said the Education Department would seek to “re-envision” the grant programs to continue supporting “underprepared or under-resourced students.”
Linda McMahon said the Education Department would seek to “re-envision” the grant programs to continue supporting “underprepared or under-resourced students.”
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been putting the squeeze on companies and trading partners in an unusual effort to raise revenue and expand the president’s role over the economy.
As the commerce secretary and a top official in charge of President Trump’s trade negotiations, Howard Lutnick has an array of powerful economic levers to deploy.
The justice’s comments reflected tensions within the judiciary, as trial judges struggle to interpret the Supreme Court’s often cryptic emergency orders.
The Trump administration has opened more than a dozen federal investigations into Harvard over a variety of targets, from the university’s admissions policies to its patent paperwork.
A judge ruled that the Trump administration broke the law in canceling billions in federal funds for Harvard. Whether the money is returned matters for the rest of higher education.
A court ruling this week was a victory for Harvard in its fight with the Trump administration, but the battle between the two sides is most likely not over.
The university’s president, Michael Schill, said he would step down following months of turbulence, including Trump administration cuts of $790 million from the university’s research funds.
The Justice Department has challenged several states that offer in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrants, contending that the policies discriminate against U.S. citizens.
Shortly after the Trump administration challenged Texas, a federal judge ruled that a state law offering undocumented students access to in-state tuition was “invalid.”
The president is looking to add troops to city streets while cutting funds for programs that work, experts and local officials say. But one idea, beautifying neighborhoods, has buy-in.
The cut by the Trump administration does not appear to have affected the handling of the church shooting this week, but state leaders say it weakens efforts to identify future threats.
The Trump administration’s campaign against wind power continued as it targeted funding for marine terminals and ports to support development of the industry.
The court voted not to revisit a fight over billions in frozen funds, but simultaneously revised an earlier order to give nonprofits that sued a narrow path forward in the case.
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seemed to render moot, for now, an emergency request the Trump administration had made with the Supreme Court.
When Republicans repealed a Biden-era “access and equity” grant program for transportation, they canceled funding for projects in some of their own districts.
Threatened by the president with political retribution, Republicans agreed to defund public broadcasting, imperiling a lifeline of communication in rural Alaska.
A bipartisan pair of members of Congress made the first official U.S. visit there since the fall of the Assad government, arguing that it was time to permanently lift American sanctions.
In a blunt ruling, the federal judge wrote that he would not thwart Republican lawmakers’ bid to pull Medicaid funds from organizations that perform abortions.
A lawsuit, brought by a group that operates 18 family planning clinics in Maine, was filed after Republicans moved to cut off the flow of Medicaid dollars to major abortion providers through legislation this summer.
President Trump’s pledge to pursue investments in major companies underscored a tectonic and potentially risky shift in the relationship between government and private enterprise.
A bipartisan pair of members of Congress made the first official U.S. visit there since the fall of the Assad government, arguing that it was time to permanently lift American sanctions.
The court’s order was fractured, with the justices splitting over whether individual cancellations and the policy behind them could be challenged in a federal trial court.
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