Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 31, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Designed to improve soil health on American farms, a “first of its kind” pilot program will invest $700 million to support regenerative agriculture. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Dec. 10 that the program
Miami mayor-elect Eileen Higgins believes the key to her election victory Tuesday — the first for a Democrat in almost 30 years — was her outreach to people of all political persuasions. In an interview on CBS News just after the election, CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett asked her about the “Trump effect;”
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points, bringing the federal funds rate to its lowest level in more than three years. The reduction lowers the federal funds rate — what banks charge each other for short-term loans — to between 3.5% and 3.75%, down from its prior range
The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from several dozen nations that enjoy visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit additional personal information before entering the country, including five years of their social media history, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice this week. Citizens of 42 countries enrolled in the visa
The Federal Reserve is set to announce its latest interest rate decision at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. NTD looks at what to expect. We’re expecting to hear from the Department of Homeland Security about a New York Task Force. We’ll have the details about that as it arrives. Eileen Higgins won Miami’s mayoral race and
A classroom in Nevitt Elementary School, in Phoenix, Ariz., on Oct. 26, 2022. Olivier Touron/AFP via Getty Images The Arizona Board of Education will remove language from K–12 curricula and policies that promote progressive racial and gender ideology and violate Civil Rights laws, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne said this week. The move
Tourists on the Flic en Flac beach located on the western coast of Mauritius on Nov. 3, 2021. Photo by Laura Morosol/AFP via Getty Images Americans traveling to Mauritius should “exercise increased caution” due to considerable crime risk, the State Department said in a Dec. 8 travel advisory update on the East African island nation.