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Federal funding for schools and after-school programs that has been withheld for more than three weeks has now been released.
The Trump administration announced it would release billions of dollars of federal education grants to states this week – ...
The White House defended the freeze. “There is no uncertainty in this building,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said. But ...
Democratic legislators mostly in blue states are attempting to fight back against President Donald Trump’s efforts to withhold funding from their states with bills that aim to give the federal ...
The money on hold represents more than a tenth of federal education funding for all states and territories, according to the Learning Policy Institute, an independent education research nonprofit.
During the first Trump administration, the president’s proposed budget eliminated funding for the Chesapeake Bay Program. In response, Congress not only maintained funding but increased it.
And top federal officials are continuing their push to expand executive branch power over federal spending, including by challenging longstanding interpretations of the U.S. Constitution.
Residents in the Rancho Palos Verdes have been living in fear that one day their homes might slide down the edge of the slope. Just when they thought they were going to be receiving funds to help, it ...
For decades, Pell Grants have made covering the cost of college possible for millions of low- and middle-income families. These federal grants, offered since the 1973-1974 school year, are ...
Given the currently proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research, including extensive cuts to the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation in the fiscal year 2026 ...
In 2022, the most recent year for which Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data are available, there were more than 48,000 firearm-related deaths in the United States, 2,526 of which ...