The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and ...

The decision is a blow to the Trump administration’s effort to drastically and quickly shrink the federal bureaucracy.

The Supreme Court refused to let President Donald Trump freeze billions in foreign aid. In his dissent, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that he was “stunned” that the court would not allow Trump’s order to stand, Law & Crime reported Wednesday. The court…

An Idaho hospital is stepping in to argue that the state’s near-total abortion ban violates patients’ rights.

Amy Coney Barrett was not having it.

Personality quizzes based on ambiguous images are bunk, but we can still learn from such psychological myths.

The only state subject to more wildfires than Texas is California.

Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

Gum arabic, a vital ingredient used in everything from Coca-Cola to M&M's sweets, is increasingly being trafficked from rebel-held areas of war-torn Sudan, traders and industry sources say, complicating Western companies' efforts to insulate their supply chains from the conflict.

The rebuke of President Trump’s tariff plans came just days before sweeping tariffs on Canada and Mexico were expected to go into effect.

The former Social Security commissioner said the system could “collapse,” causing disruptions in payments within “30 to 90 days.”

The truth is that “fraud” has never been the target.

President Donald Trump said the US would impose tariffs on “external” agricultural products starting on April 2, his latest threat to impose trade barriers on imported goods.

Trump is not the first American leader to dream of northern expansion. History suggests these designs reveal simmering divisions inside the United States.

President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species

Many animals show signs of high intelligence, including strong memory, self-awareness and communication skills.

Overall death toll ahead of two previous years combined

The federal judge’s decision blocks Trump from removing Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel and sets up a likely Supreme Court battle over the president’s powers.

Dr. Francis Collins, a renowned geneticist, and former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, is retiring from the government agency and urging “respect” for its embattled workers.

The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines…

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