Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

The Department of Justice has tapped two prosecutors with expertise in organized...

As fewer men choose college, women are moving into top professions

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

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Meteorologists are losing a sophisticated tool that has proved invaluable when monitoring and forecasting hurricanes.

The university said it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.

Over the past four months I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...

Children’s Health Defense official says parents affected by measles outbreak ‘would rather have’ untested treatments ‘than the MMR vaccination’

The accomplishments of the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat unit and the 100th Infantry Battalion have been removed from the Army's website.

Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.

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President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance moved to betray a...

At least six prosecutors, including the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan, have stepped down over the DOJ order to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...

The National Science Foundation's funding freeze, and wider confusion about the status and future of science funding, is already hampering research.

A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.