Trump waives summer gasoline regulations to ease fuel prices

The Trump administration will temporarily lift summer gasoline regulations as prices at the pump near $4 a gallon amid the Iran war.  The emergency fuel waiver allows refiners and retailers to sell E15 gasoline, which is blended with 15% ethanol, over the summer, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Wednesday.  Restrictions on selling E10 gasoline,

San Francisco Reinstates 8th-Grade Algebra After ‘Equity’ Experiment Fails

Test scores declined and racial gaps persisted after the district removed algebra from the middle school curriculum in 2014 (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) San Francisco school officials voted Tuesday to restore eighth-grade algebra more than a decade after the district eliminated the course in the name of “equity,” a policy that attracted intense criticism as math

Melania Trump pitches robots as potential educators for schoolchildren

Washington — For the first time in history, a robot, not a person, escorted the first lady of the United States Wednesday at the White House. Escorted by a walking, talking humanoid system, first lady Melania Trump pitched the Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit on AI robots as potential, “personalized” educators for America’s

DHS watchdog warned of risks in airport shoes-off policy. The report got buried.

An internal watchdog report in the Department of Homeland Security identified serious vulnerabilities in TSA’s screenings at airports nationwide, among them, one created by a change in the shoes-off policy — and the agency has yet to respond five months later, according to internal communications provided to House Homeland Security Committee staff and reviewed by

REPLAY: Senate Budget Committee Holds Hearing on Social Security

The Senate Budget Committee holds a hearing on Social Security, focusing on the facts and the path forward, at 10 a.m. ET on March 25. Witnesses include: Panel I: • Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) • Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) Panel II: • Molly Dahl, chief of long-term analysis at the Congressional Budget Office • Karen