3+ week, 3+ day ago   (937+ words) By STAN CHOE and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AP Business Writers After the bond market’s alarm bells rose in volume through the summer, the Trump administration announced on Wednesday a move that could help calm it down. The U.S. Treasury Department said…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1654+ words) For the first time in 50 years, California could see a new nuclear power project, following a landmark agreement between the federal government and the Port of Long Beach — and with the help of a new startup. The deal between the…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (412+ words) Meta Platforms on Monday announced the release of a new artificial intelligence model that’s open for other software developers to use as CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned of the risks if control of advanced AI is concentrated under a select few…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (578+ words) By MORIAH BALINGIT, AP Education Writer Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the federally funded preschool program, said the proposed changes would encourage more local decision-making. Early childhood policy experts argue the deregulation could undermine…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (420+ words) Environmentalists say this could spell the end for the vanishing whales, which can drown after getting tangled up in fishing gear or being struck by boats. There are only about 380 North Atlantic right whales left. The federal government has already…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1008+ words) By ANNIE MA, AP Education Writer Last month, the Education Department announced it would offload oversight of special education to the Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose comments on the limits of disabilities such…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (363+ words) By ALIA WONG and COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writers With growing numbers of borrowers in default, the Trump administration pitched the temporary, 1% reduction in student loan interest rates as a salve for those struggling with repayment. Education Undersecretary Nicholas Kent…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (267+ words) By KATIE VOGEL and JACQUELYN MARTIN Teams of National Park Service employees and contractors deployed chemicals and ozone nanobubbles Tuesday in a bid to keep the algae in check, not dissimilar from efforts to clean the pool before Trump’s renovation…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1038+ words) By ANNIE MA, AP Education Writer Civil rights attorneys describe the administration’s actions as a complete inversion of legal history. “It’s literally flipping the purpose of civil rights law on its head, not just harming Black students and students of…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (597+ words) By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Researchers’ new list of seven plausible carbon pollution scenarios for the future are pushing aside two staples of climate policy: the extremes on either end. “There is kind of a narrowing of the futures....