Chicago Public Schools officials expressed the urgency of additional funding from the city and state as they prepare for the release of “school-level budgets,” with the assumption that they will have $300 million in extra money from stakeholders to fill a gaping budget gap. School-level budgets, or the funds each school gets to cover everyday…
California became a national pioneer four years ago by passing a law to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement. But only months before the policy is to take effect, Gov. Gavin Newsom is withholding state funding — delaying the mandate as the course comes under renewed fire. The pause has left school districts…
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Trump took a victory lap at the White House Monday before jetting off on a three-country tour of the Middle East, where he’s expected to try to drum up more investment in the US. Trump claimed credit for averting a nuclear war in the Indian subcontinent, forcing Ukraine and Russia…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A global trade war is offering Puerto Rico hope as the U.S. territory, attempts to strengthen its fragile economy. Government officials are jumping on planes to try and convince international companies to relocate their manufacturing plants to the island, where they would be exempt from tariffs. Any relocation would be…
Waskom, Texas, is an old railroad town of about 2,000 nestled at the midway point between Dallas and Shreveport, La. According to the city’s website, Waskom became a significant player in America’s east-to-west trade during the 1880s because J.M. Waskom, a director of the Southern Pacific Railroad, “led the way in bringing the railroad to…
President Donald Trump unexpectedly fired Library of Congress head Carla Hayden on Thursday in a move that sent Democrats into a frenzy. Hayden — the first woman and black Librarian of Congress — received an email from the White House’s Presidential Personnel Office telling her she was terminated late Thursday, according to the Associated Press. …
WASHINGTON — The more President Donald Trump talks about his efforts to reach deals with America’s trading partners, the more confusing the tariff picture gets. His team seems good with that, saying Trump is using “strategic uncertainty” to his advantage. Trump says the United States does not have to sign any agreements, and that it…
NEW YORK — Columbia University said Tuesday that it will be laying off nearly 180 staffers in response to President Trump’s decision to cancel $400 million in funding over the Manhattan college’s handling of student protests against the war in Gaza. Those receiving nonrenewal or termination notices Tuesday represent about 20% of the employees funded in some…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three GOP-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to abortion medication mifepristone. Justice Department attorneys stayed the legal course charted by Biden administration, though they didn’t directly weigh in on the underlying issue of access to the drug…
NEW YORK — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motto is “Make America Healthy Again,” but government cuts could make it harder to know if that’s happening. More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been eliminated in the tornado of layoffs and proposed budget cuts rolled out in the…
