Chuck Schumer to vote to advance GOP funding bill Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer says he will vote for the GOP funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. The Senate will vote on a stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown. Democrats may vote against the bill in protest of President Trump’s policies. If the
Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02) joined a roundtable hosted by the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) at the Gilbert Street Cafe that focused on strategies for increasing and sustaining investment in rural communities throughout the U.S. The roundtable featured three more key stakeholders dedicated to rural advancement: Bryan Severs, local farmer and ISA Director; JT Barnhart, OSF
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) have published updated data from the National Survey of Mortgage Originations (NSMO). This latest release offers a comprehensive look at mortgage performance and credit information from 2013 to 2021. What the Data Reveals Since 2014, the FHFA and CFPB
With a $300,000 grant, the Welch Foundation is supporting University of Texas at Arlington research into creating new materials to safely and effectively deliver medications to treat diseases such as cancer. Since its founding in 1954, the Houston-based Welch Foundation has contributed over $1.1 billion to the advancement of chemistry through research grants, departmental programs, endowed chairs
Researchers based at Australia’s Translational Research Institute (TRI) have received major funding from the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to develop Parkinson’s disease (PD) treatments by targeting the gut microbiome. Image Credit: Translational Research Institute (TRI) Associate Professor Richard Gordon and his team from the QUT School of Biomedical Sciences were awarded two grants
Researchers in Sheffield are investigating how breast cancer cells survive and grow, thanks to new funding from Breast Cancer Now. Breast Cancer Now has awarded £249,575 to Dr Elena Rainero at the University of Sheffield, to study how breast cancer cells use alternative food sources to grow and spread, and the role a protein called
Spurred on by major technological advances and huge private investment, the United States’ nuclear fusion sector could be producing electricity within ten years, industry players say. The process, which powers the Sun, sees two atomic nuclei combine — and release massive amounts of energy. But private companies on Earth are also hoping decades of research
Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese telecommunications giant blacklisted by the U.S., is secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities including Harvard through an independent Washington-based foundation. Huawei is the sole funder of a research competition that has awarded millions of dollars since its inception in 2022 and attracted hundreds of proposals from scientists around the
The global energy challenge is the quest to find energy solutions that meet three main goals: providing affordable and reliable energy, minimising air pollution – which Prof Greenstone noted is the single greatest external threat to human health globally – and minimising the damages from climate change. This challenge is especially difficult for developing countries,