The NCAA announced Thursday it would no longer allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports and would limit participation to those assigned female at birth. The policy change, approved by the NCAA board of governors, comes one day after President Trump signed an executive order barring transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited the White House on Thursday to discuss Meta's role in helping the Trump administration with America's international tech leadership, the company confirmed. "Mark Zuckerberg was at the White House today to discuss how Meta can help the administration defend and advance American tech leadership abroad," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone wrote...
Questions are swirling about how much access Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has to Americans’ personal data and sensitive federal payment systems. Soon after President Trump took office, Musk deployed members of his cost-cutting panel to the Treasury Department with eyes on the Bureau of Fiscal Service: the agency responsible for...
The Department of Education is investigating two colleges and a state athletic association for allowing transgender athletes to compete on women’s sports teams, probes in accordance with an executive order signed Wednesday by President Trump. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights announced Thursday that it is launching investigations into San José State University, the...
A California utility company said its equipment may have sparked a Los Angeles wildfire on the same day that two additional blazes ravaged the state and killed at least 29 individuals, according to The Associated Press. The Los Angeles Fire Department is investigating Southern California Edison (SCE) for a utility fire that may have caused...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday he wouldn’t be commenting on the Federal Reserve's interest rate policies and expressed confidence in the central bank Chair Jerome Powell, breaking from earlier criticisms. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Bessent said he expects Fed Chair Powell “will do the right thing” despite his and President Trump's past...
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) on Thursday knocked President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk over what he called a new McCarthy Era for government employees. “It really is sort of like the McCarthy Era 2.0 [for a lot of] federal employees and for all of us as well, so, but they're standing up and they're...
Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino said he is scheduled to speak with President Trump on Friday amid his efforts to reclaim the nation’s sought-after canal. “I was told a few minutes ago by a senior official that I will be speaking with President Trump tomorrow at 3:30 p.m.,” Mulino wrote in a Thursday afternoon post...
Despite an unprecedented amount of money spent through ESSER funds, student achievement continues to plummet, leading to a growing momentum behind school choice initiatives that allow parents to choose the best educational option for their children.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Thursday he thinks President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) commission, led by tech billionaire Elon Musk, will find “awful examples” of wasteful government spending. But he said it’s important the findings be brought to Congress, which is responsible for appropriating government funds, according to the U.S. Constitution. “I think they are likely...
Maternal deaths have dropped in the U.S. with the exception of Black mothers, according to data released this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A report from the agency's National Center for Health Statistics, published Wednesday, found that in 2023, 669 women died of maternal causes compared to 817 women who...
A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Thursday that would create a new Wildfire Intelligence Agency, seeking to streamline the federal response to fires. The bill, led by Sens. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.), came in the wake of recent blazes that decimated parts of Southern California,...
A federal judge paused President Trump's sweeping buyout offer, delivering federal workers an extension until Monday to consider the deal. The move comes as agencies in recent days ramped up pressure on employees, hoping to lure workers to leave voluntarily ahead of Thursday's initial deadline, as Trump and his allies seek to reshape the government....
