The Education Department is advancing its plans to eliminate itself, attempting a work-around to move certain mandatory programs to other federal agencies in a move resulting in considerable confusion ...

The Trump administration is implementing its widely telegraphed plan to shutter the Education Department by transferring critical responsibilities to other federal agencies. Six department offices ...

A majority of the U.S. Department of Education’s funding for K-12 schools—more than $20 billion a year—will be administered instead by the U.S. Department of Labor under an interagency agreement the ...

Biosafety hawks were initially optimistic that the incoming second Trump administration would at last place binding constraints on so-called "dangerous gain-of-function" research, in which pathogens ...

Only three programs -- the three listed above, and in that order -- eclipsed 700 wins over the last 25 years. So it's only right that those three, led by Duke and Kansas (with a combined five national ...

Journal Editorial Report: The Fed Chief signals rate cuts are coming. As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they ...

Section 1. Determinations. The agencies and agency subdivisions set forth in section 2 of this order are hereby determined to have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) included long-overdue limits on federal loans to graduate students. While graduate loans have been effectively unlimited, going forward, most students will be ...

The University of Utah will discontinue 81 academic programs — from foreign languages to theater and dance — in response to the Legislature’s mandate to cut higher education budgets. And the state’s ...

The Army will review the use of selection boards to assess senior soldiers for command positions, officials said. In a memo Thursday, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll rescinded the official status ...

The Alzheimer's Association U.S. Study to Protect Brain Health Through Lifestyle Intervention to Reduce Risk (U.S. POINTER) found that certain lifestyle interventions improved cognition in older ...