Partisan debates over what’s to blame for declining academic performance preview the battles ahead over education reform. In a House hearing on Wednesday, Democrats accused Republicans of promoting divisiveness, inequity, and resegregation as part of a plan to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. The debate at a hearing on the state of American education
Government payments to Politico quadrupled to $26 million during the Biden administration Getty Images Elon Musk, the African-born immigrant entrepreneur President Donald Trump authorized to rein in spending, vowed on Wednesday to end the federal government’s “wasteful expenditure” of nearly $8.5 million last year on premium subscriptions to Politico, the Beltway news blog located many,
‘The DOGE team is working on canceling those payments now,’ White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said. After reports surfaced that the federal government may have paid for subscriptions to media companies like Politico, the White House announced on Feb. 5 that those payments “will no longer be happening.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that prohibits biologically male athletes from participating in women’s sports, delivering on a campaign promise. “With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” Trump said, noting that schools that refuse to comply may lose federal funding. In addition, the order tasks the administration
The Office of Personnel Management submitted the assessment, but Justice Department lawyers argued it was unnecessary. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted a privacy assessment in an ongoing lawsuit over the Trump administration’s plan to implement a government-wide email system for communication with federal employees. The Feb. 5 filing was made after a
The Acacia Center for Justice receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts Acacia Center (screenshot), Border Patrol stop ((John Moore/Getty Images) A pro-immigration group that has called for “freedom from detention” for illegal aliens and says the immigration system is “intentionally designed” to exploit minorities has hired a Republican lobbyist as it faces
Dem AG Matthew Platkin’s office tells the Free Beacon it will appeal the ruling (Wikimedia Commons) A New Jersey court dismissed the state attorney general’s lawsuit accusing the nation’s largest oil and gas producers of causing global warming—a massive blow for climate activists who saw the case as an opportunity to regulate emissions nationwide and