As Democrats and Republicans trade accusations over which party is responsible for the government shutdown, new polling suggests that President Donald Trump’s efforts to falsely claim—in social media posts, on television, on government agencies’ websites, and in internal directives to federal employees—that Democrats shut down the government because they want to provide “free health care […]
This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Jane Goodall, one of the most influential environmental figures in human history, has died at 91 while doing what she’s done for most of her later years—touring the country to deliver an urgent message about nature and human existence. Goodall, who […]
The old corporate playbook — drag your feet, lawyer up, wait for the enforcement action that may never come, and sue if you must — has been replaced by something weirder.
In a memo sent to top schools, the White House said it would tie funding to, among other things, mandatory standardized testing in admissions and a five-year tuition freeze.
The $11 trillion firm has lowered its expectations for stock returns over the next decade to as little as 3.3%, worse than a bucket of corporate bonds.
In a ruling by turns petulant, defiant, and resigned, a federal judge in Texas who has spent the past three years trying to help conservative groups overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of the abortion drug mifepristone has bowed out of the case. US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has transferred the case formerly known […]