For Google Maps users in the US, it’s now the Gulf of America
For users of Google Maps in the United States, the body of water enclosed to the east by Florida and the Yucatan peninsula is ...
States suing to stop steep federal cuts to medical research funding
The National Institutes of Health says the cuts will save more than $4 billion a year, but critics say it puts potentially lifesaving research in jeopardy.
Billions of scientific research dollars set to be cut by federal government
News of the cuts rattled the scientific community with many scientific institutions set to lose millions of dollars in ...
What Trump is doing to the US government is not a spoils system
We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...
Robert B. Reich: Trump regime is refusing to be bound by the federal courts. Where will this end?
Plaintiffs are seeking to “check this abuse of power” by asking the courts to declare the Trump regime’s actions unlawful and ...
The ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’ of the United States Government
Elon Musk is not the president, but it does appear that he—a foreign-born, unelected billionaire who was not confirmed by Congress—is exercising profound influence over the federal government of the ...
With billions at stake, Trump administration scrubs federal chips contracts for words like ‘diversity’ and ‘immigrant’
The Trump White House is demanding that government workers hunt for words like “immigrant” and “diversity” in billions of ...
Federal judge extends pause on Trump's bid to slash federal workforce
A federal judge extended a restraining order Monday on the Trump administration's deadline for more than 2 million federal ...
Brighton man found not guilty of plotting with Chinese government to identify activists
Li Tang Liang, a 65-year-old US citizen, and his supporters hailed the verdict as a victory for US-China relations.
Opinion
The word of the United States of America is now worth no more than Donald Trump’s
We ought to be able to trust that the U.S. government will do what the U.S. government has said it will do, but that's expecting too much when Donald Trump is president.