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Tracking Trump: Education Dept. demise as key agenda items get blocked in court

Updated Mar 21, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Columbia caves to Trump demands to regain $400 million in funding

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Seats for commencement exercises, now cancelled, are set up at the main campus of Columbia University on May 06, 2024 in New York City. Following weeks of unrest by pro-Palestinian protesters at the campus, Columbia has decided to cancel its main graduation ceremony out

Department of Homeland Security guts civil rights team

A car with the DHS logo and text that reads "Homeland Security"

Judge slams Venezuela deportation order "signed in the dark"

James Boasberg, incoming chief judge of the US District Court, in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, March 13, 2023. Boasberg, who starts a seven-year term as chief judge on March 17, will oversee the court's secret grand jury proceedings, including pending and future legal fights related to Special Cou

"They hate us": Democrats confront their own Tea Party

Rep. Sean Casten, wearing a blue suit and khakis, holds up his hand at a man in a light green shirt while standing on a stage in front of a blue curtain, a wooden wall and an American flag.
Mar 21, 2025 - Business

Ticket reseller StubHub files for an IPO

StubHub app on a phone.

Elon Musk visits Pentagon after bombshell reports on access to China war plans

Elon Musk leaves a meeting with House Republicans in the basement of the U.S. Capitol building on March 5, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Federal judge orders ICE not to deport immigration advocate Jeanette Vizguerra

A woman holds up a sign reading FREE JEANETTE with a woman's photograph.
Updated Mar 21, 2025 - Politics & Policy

What dismantling Education Department means for student loans

Illustration of a question mark on a price tag instead of a graduation tassel.

Trump touts Boeing as builder of Air Force's future F-47 fighter

Illustration of a plane with a contrail made of binary numbers.

Alabama capital to mark 60th anniversary of key voting rights march

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. arrives in Montgomery, Alabama on March 25th 1965 at the culmination of the Selma to Montgomery March. Pictured from left, Ralph Bunche, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Hosea Williams.
Updated Mar 21, 2025 - Business

Exclusive: Starbucks shift entices more customers to "sit and stay"

Illustration of the Starbucks mermaid logo holding a steaming mug of coffee
Updated Mar 21, 2025 - Business

Trump suggests sending Tesla vandals to El Salvador prisons

Donald Trump and Elon Musk sit inside a Tesla vehicle at the White House.
Updated Mar 21, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Judge freezes firing of intel chief who's investigating Netanyahu's aides

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends his trial on corruption charges at the district court in Tel Aviv, on March 12, 2025.
Mar 21, 2025 - Economy

Americans' job anxiety soars to highest level in 10 years

Mar 21, 2025 - Business

Trump tally: J&J plans $55 billion investment to expand U.S. manufacturing

Illustration of a first aid bag filled with cash.  

Trump's funding ax throws colleges into an existential crisis

Illustration of a graduation cap with the tassel on fire

Trump travel ban may hit MLB players from Cuba, Venezuela

Team Cuba receives medical attention after colliding while trying to make a catch in the sixth inning against Team USA during the World Baseball Classic Semifinals at loanDepot park on March 19, 2023 in Miami, Florida.

Trump's overflowing grudge list

Photo illustration of President Trump's hand holding a black marker like a dagger.

AI infrastructure's all-out spending spree

a microchip with a money symbol cut out of the middle
Updated Mar 21, 2025 - Politics & Policy

AOC, Ilhan Omar join the pile-on against Senate Democrats

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., greet the crowd during a rally at Craig Ranch Regional Park in North Las Vegas on Thursday, March 20, 2025.

Scoop: Musk's PAC offers $100 to Wisconsin voters in pitch against "activist judges"

Elon Musk, dressed in black wearing a T-shirt with "DOGE" on the front

Inside Chuck Schumer's March survival plan

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