President Trump takes US out of UNESCO for the second time President Donald Trump has withdrawn the U.S. from the culture and education agency UNESCO. The Trump administration announced on Friday it will return more than $5 billion in funding that it previously withheld from the nation’s K-12 public schools for over a month. In
The Trump administration will release about $67 million to Colorado’s K-12 school districts after freezing the money for nearly a month, a move that comes just weeks before the 2025-26 academic year begins. The funding freeze was set to upend the upcoming school year as districts had already budgeted the federal money and hired employees.
Senators grill Education Secretary Linda McMahon over proposed cuts Education Secretary Linda McMahon testified to Congress over proposed budget cuts. After a monthlong delay, more than $118 million in federal K-12 funds will be released to Tennessee. The Trump administration missed a deadline to allocate $6.2 billion in funds nationwide, saying it was due to
100 days of Trump: 3 key changes impacting people across America 100 days after returning to power, Donald Trump is charging ahead with tariffs, an immigration crackdown and federal cuts, including dismantling DEI. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” appropriates $300 million for security reimbursements to communities where Trump has properties. Expenses incurred on or
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. John Cornyn seized Thursday on an Associated Press story that Republican primary challenger Attorney General Ken Paxton, with wife Angela Paxton, claimed three houses as their primary residence on mortgage paperwork. Those inaccurate statements allowed the couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to the AP report. “It’s a
Twenty-year-old Eric Mun didn’t want to believe it: Only one kid in the family could make it to medical school — and it wasn’t going to be him. Mun had done everything right. He graduated high school with honors, earned a scholarship at Northwestern University and breezed through his biology courses. He immigrated to Alabama
It was Fort Gordon, then it was Fort Eisenhower, now it’s Fort Gordon again. But there are efforts to fight against that change at Augusta’s U.S. Army base along with the other recently renamed military installations. Who was Fort Gordon named after? Originally, Augusta’s Fort Gordon honored Lt. Gen. John Brown Gordon, one of Confederate
July 22 (UPI) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his administration has reached a trade deal with Japan that will impose a 15% tariff rate on the large U.S.-trading partner, instead of the higher levy Trump threatened earlier. The announcement came in a Truth Social post a week before an Aug. 1 deadline imposed
As the new academic year draws closer, Schuylkill County school districts are working to continue educational programs being threatened by the ongoing delay in federal funding. The U.S. Department of Education announced on June 30 that it would withhold distributing more than $6 billion for school programs, money that had already been approved by Congress
A new proposed federal budget from the U.S. House of Representatives would likely spare iconic research labs in Boulder but still leave a deep gash in funding. On Monday, the House appropriations committee unveiled a budget draft that would slash more than $387 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. That’s about