A volcano near Alaska’s largest city could erupt in the coming weeks or months, scientists say
A volcano near Alaska’s largest city is showing new signs of unrest, with experts saying the likelihood of an eruption at ...
Federal student loan site down Wednesday, a day after layoffs gutted Education Department
An hours-long outage on StudentAid.gov, the federal website for student loans and financial aid, has underscored the risks in ...
Former Texas megachurch pastor indicted in Oklahoma on child sexual abuse charges
The Oklahoma Attorney General’s office says a former pastor of a Texas megachurch who resigned after a woman accused him of ...
Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo
The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, ...
Trump’s 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports go into effect
President Donald Trump has officially increased tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25%. He has promised that the ...
‘In DOGE we trust': House GOP governs by embracing Trump’s effort to cut government
House Speaker Mike Johnson has accomplished the seemingly unexpected, keeping his Republican majority in line to fund the ...
Judge temporarily blocks parts of Trump’s executive order seeking to punish law firm Perkins Coie
A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing portions of an executive order ...
USDA ends program that helped schools serve food from local farmers
The U.S. Agriculture Department is ending two pandemic-era programs that provided more than $1 billion for schools and food ...
Vatican says a chest X-ray confirms improvements in the pope’s condition
Pope Francis’ recovery from double pneumonia continues. As a chest X-ray has confirmed improvement. Doctors earlier this week ...
SpaceX delays flight to replace NASA’s stuck astronauts after launch pad problem
A launch pad problem has forced a flight delay to replace NASA's two stuck astronauts. The new crew needs to get to the ...
Kuwait frees a group of jailed Americans, including contractors held on drug charges
Kuwait has released a group of American prisoners, including veterans and military contractors jailed for years on ...
A government program made tax filing free and more efficient. Musk and DOGE may get rid of it anyway
The fate of the IRS Direct File program remains unclear as Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency cleave their ...