
Trump to order a plan to shut down the US Education Department
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U. S. Education Department, according to a White House official, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that's been a longtime target of conservatives. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity before an announcement. Trump has derided the Department of Education as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology. However, finalizing its dismantling is likely an of...
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Trump's bluntness powered a White House comeback. Now his words are getting him in trouble in court
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s shoot-from-the-lip style kept Americans on the edge of their seats during last year's campaign. But now that he's speaking as a president and not as a candidate, his words are being used against him in court in the blizzard of litigation challenging his agenda. The spontaneity is complicating his administration's legal positions. Nowhere has this been clearer than in cases involving Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, the driving force in...
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- Trump's bluntness powered a White House comeback. Now his words are getting him in trouble in court
- Trump to order a plan to shut down the US Education Department
- Pentagon restores histories of Navajo Code Talkers, other Native veterans after public outcry
- Social Security in-person identity checks opposed by advocates and retirees alike
Researchers find a hint at how to delay Alzheimer's symptoms. Now they have to prove it
An experimental treatment appears to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease in their 40s or 50s, according to new findings from ongoing research now caught up in Trump administration funding delays. The early results — a scientific first — were published Wednesday even as study participants worried that politics could cut their access to a possible lifeline. “It’s still a study but it has given me an extension to my life that I never banked...
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