Students protest Education Department closure in ‘Hands Off Our Schools’ rally

Crowds of college and high school students representing student governments from some of the largest schools in the Washington, D.C., area rallied outside the U.S. Department of Education on Friday to oppose the administration’s gutting of the agency. Chanting “hands off our schools” and “give us back our DOE,” demonstrators attended the rally outside department … Read more

A deal for TikTok seemingly falls hostage to the US-China trade war 

After months of negotiations, a deal to turn over TikTok’s United States operations to a new company with a majority American ownership was finalized on Wednesday, according to senior administration officials. The investors — which included Oracle, Blackstone, Andreeson Horowitz and several others — ByteDance and the Trump administration negotiated and agreed to the terms. … Read more

Loomer, far-right activist, urged Trump to remove NSA director and others: Sources

The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Timothy Haugh, was among the numerous officials far-right activist Laura Loomer urged President Donald Trump to remove during her official Oval Office meeting earlier this week, citing evidence of disloyalties, multiple sources tell ABC News. In her Oval Office meeting, Loomer presented the president with printed files … Read more

16 state attorneys general sue Trump administration over NIH grant terminations

Sixteen state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday over its cancellation of research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, argues the cancellation of the grants is “unlawful” and the attorneys general “seek relief for the … Read more