President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is close to reaching a deal with Harvard University, which it has targeted with a series of investigations and billions of dollars in funding cuts as it presses for changes to its policies and governance.
With weeks to go in New Jersey's high-stakes governor's race, key members of Democrats' diverse coalition, including union and Black leaders, have been raising concerns - even when they're not supposed to.
The Justice Department opened an investigation Tuesday in the diversity hiring practices of the public school system in Des Moines, Iowa, just days after its superintendent was arrested for being an illegal immigrant.
Plug-in tanks, drag shows and physically unfit leaders promoted to boost diversity have shifted the U.S. military's focus "on the wrong things," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday. The previously misdirected focus, critics say, accelerated under Presidents Obama and Biden when they prioritized ideological policies such as diversity, equity and inclusion over military readiness.
ERIE, Pennsylvania — The Millcreek School District is not fielding any questions about the former school district superintendent, Ian Roberts, who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents on Friday for allegedly living and working in the United States illegally. Reached for comment about the school district’s superintendent from July 2020 to 2023, officials […]
Three members of the Senate Democratic caucus broke with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Tuesday and voted for a House Republican-drafted bill to fund government through Nov. 21, revealing divisions among Democrats about how aggressively to confront the Trump administration. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), a member of the Senate Democratic leadership team,...
Russell Vought, the head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), issued a memo on Tuesday evening directing government agencies to begin executing their plans "for an orderly shutdown." Vought wrote to agency leaders with just hours to go until government funding lapses at midnight. The OMB director blamed the impending shutdown on "Democrats'...
The Trump administration has withdrawn its nominee to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a White House official confirmed Tuesday evening. Brian Quintenz, global head of policy at a16z crypto and a former CFTC commissioner, was tapped by President Trump in February to lead the agency, as it prepares to take on a larger...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., criticizes Senate Democrats for blocking the GOP's short-term funding extension as Congress hurtles toward a government shutdown.
A yelling match between Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and a former Biden administration official broke out in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing over the need for “two spirit" safe spaces.
