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Flags decorate a space at the Education Department in Washington.

What Trump's pledge to close Dept. of Education means for students, GOP-led states

President-elect Trump promised to close the Department of Education. We asked several education policy experts what the impacts of doing so would mean for students and the country.

In this photo provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a lactating dairy cow stands in a pen after inoculation against bird flu at the National Animal Disease Center research facility in Ames, Iowa, on Monday, July 29, 2024.

After delay, CDC releases data signaling bird flu spread undetected in cows and people

After going quiet on bird flu, CDC scientists have published a report on its spread among veterinarians. The findings suggest a need for better surveillance.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 25, 2024, at U.N. headquarters in New York.

U.S. votes against a U.N. resolution urging Russia's withdrawal from Ukraine

The European-backed resolution that was approved demands Russia immediately withdraw its forces. The Trump administration had offered a competing resolution that did not mention Russian aggression.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on his nomination in January.

EPA announces dozens of environmental regulations it plans to target

The Environmental Protection Agency didn't provide details about what it wants to do with the regulations — whether it will try to weaken them or eliminate them entirely.

GOP lawsuits about an obscure immigration database may set up election challenges

Florida, Texas and Ohio have filed last-minute lawsuits against the Biden administration demanding data about the citizenship of voters on their state rolls. One expert calls these "zombie" lawsuits.

Social media posts from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are overlayed on a file photo of ICE making an arrest in Los Angeles.

When numbers play politics: How immigration data manipulation shapes public narratives

An immigration expert analyzes the statistical impact of Trump's immigration policies, ICE funding increases and immigration data manipulation shaping public narratives.

Workers move bags of yellow lentils at an aid operation run by USAID, Catholic Relief Services and the Relief Society of Tigray in Mekele, Ethiopia, on June 16, 2021.

What is USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development?

Formed in 1961, the agency with a roughly $40 billion budget provides humanitarian assistance abroad and funds other projects to further U.S. interests.

Trump shifts date for Canada and Mexico tariffs — again

Little about how Trump discusses tariffs is normal — not only because he threatens tariffs on a weekly, even daily, basis, but also because it's often unclear if or when those tariffs will happen.

Malcolm X's daughters, Malikah Shabazz (from left), Attallah Shabazz, Malaak Shabazz and Gamilah Shabazz, talk to the media outside the Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx borough of New York, following the death of their mother, Betty Shabazz on June 23, 1997. A new lawsuit accuses the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and others of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader.

Malcolm X's daughters sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD over the civil rights leader's assassination

A $100 million lawsuit claims the agencies were aware of and were involved in the1965 assassination plot and failed to stop the killing of the civil rights leader.

A portion of Jervois Global's Idaho Cobalt Operations near Salmon, Idaho Oct. 7, 2022

The American industry that wants more government intervention

As President-elect Trump promises to eliminate government agencies and regulations, one American industry — mining — is asking for more intervention. They say national economic and military security are at stake.

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