Numbers are ‘encouraging,’ economist says Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Inflation slowed more than expected in February, President Donald Trump’s first full month back in office, according to Labor Department data released Wednesday. While the consumer price index (CPI), a key measure of costs for everyday goods such as groceries, rent, and gasoline, increased 2.8
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.) announced that she will not seek reelection in 2026, becoming the third Democrat to retire this year and further diminishing Democrats’ chances to retake the Senate. “It was a difficult decision, made more difficult by the current environment in the country—by President Trump and what he’s doing right now,” Shaheen,
$2 billion grant for group linked to Stacey Abrams is among those canceled (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Trump administration terminated $20 billion in grants the Biden administration awarded last year to eight environmental nonprofits, citing concerns over fraud, waste, and abuse. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin notified grant recipients of the action Tuesday evening and explained
Brown University’s Choices Program develops history and current issues curricula for K-12 schools in all 50 states. Once upon a time, it taught students “of the historic Jewish ties to the land that is now Israel.” But its recent materials are more critical of the Jewish state—and Brown’s endowed chair of Palestinian studies, Beshara Doumani,
In 2011, Brown University’s Choices Program, which develops curriculum on history and current issues for K-12 schools in all 50 states, taught high school students “of the historic Jewish ties to the land that is now Israel.” In 2015, anti-Israel academic Beshara Doumani, then a founding director of Brown’s Center for Middle East Studies, began
Several anti-Israel agitators were arrested in New York on Tuesday after clashing with police during a protest against the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student activist and foreign national whom the Trump administration moved to deport over his pro-Hamas campus organizing. It was part of a nationwide student and faculty walkout at several
The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 217-213 to approve a stopgap funding bill to keep federal agencies running for the next six months, staving off a partial government shutdown while cutting overall spending by around $7 billion. The vote was mostly along party lines, with one Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden (Maine), voting for the