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President Donald Trump is preparing to gut the U.S. Education Department to the full extent of his power, directing his administration to slash spending while pressuring employees to quit

The Senate has confirmed Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general

President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

A Treasury Department official has written a letter to federal lawmakers saying that a tech executive working with Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” will have “read-only access” to the government’s payment system

The impact area where a medical transportation plane crashed in Philadelphia last week will hopefully reopen on Wednesday

Leaders of dozens of Head Start preschools said they might need to close temporarily because they remain locked out of their federal funding, a problem that first surfaced last week during President Donald Trump’s aborted effort to freeze federal grants

El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally as well as the country’s violent criminals — even if they’re American citizens

The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, has died

Democrats are fighting to energize their party’s growing resistance to President Trump and his chief lieutenant, Elon Musk

When Donald Trump started the biggest trade war since the 1930s in his first term, his impulsive combination of threats and import taxes on U.S. trading partners created chaos, generated drama -- and drew criticism from mainstream economists who favor free trade