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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives. Trump has derided the

Dr. Francis Collins led the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, under three presidents—including Trump during his first term. He left that post in 2021 and retired from his career in government in

Even as the war in Gaza continues, Israel’s prime minister says a “larger and more intense front could be opened” in the West Bank, where more than 40,000 have been displaced in the current operation. (Image credit: Nidal Eshtayeh)

This week, millions of Americans will catch a case of March Madness. Some will root for their alma maters in the men’s or women’s college basketball tournaments. Many others will root for the team they bet on, or the one

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece — Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee and become the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in global sports. The Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming

WASHINGTON — An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban in a deal with the Trump administration that Qatari negotiators helped broker, the State

CNN anchor Pamela Brown fended off a “gotcha” moment from Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) on the topic of undocumented immigrants paying taxes. Brown began by discussing the potential of the Internal Revenue Service sharing “very sensitive taxpayer data” with the

Jacob Bushno has spent his entire adult life serving his country. He enlisted in the military straight out of high school. After two tours in Iraq as part of the Army’s air assault division, he transitioned into civilian service in

Tesla announced that it is recalling every Cybertruck sold between Nov. 13, 2023, and the end of February because parts of the vehicles fell off. Over the past several weeks, Tesla has suffered a stock drop thought to be due

Pentagon restores webpages of Black veterans, Navajo Code Talkers and others after outcry  NPR Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website  The Guardian US Civil War Nurses, USS Constitution Commander Among Female Veterans Removed in Pentagon DEI