Dr. Nick Maynard tells NPR he’s treating children shot at food distribution sites and witnessing what he believes is the systematic destruction of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure. (Image credit: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images)
Harvard and the Trump administration are facing off in federal court today over the freezing of over $2 billion in grants and contracts. And, Texas lawmakers are seeking a new congressional makeup. (Image credit: Sophie Park/Getty Images)
It costs nearly $100 million a year to maintain global stockpiles of vaccines for Ebola, cholera, meningitis and yellow fever in case of emergency. A new study estimates how many lives they’ve saved. (Image credit: Namukolo Siyumbwa)
Did you know that we know less about the sea than we do about space? With this comic, we explore some of what scientists do know about Earth’s ocean.
Republican lawmakers fear Washington may be headed for a government shutdown later this year after two bruising fights over President Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill Act and a $9 billion rescissions package created bad blood on Capitol Hill. White House budget director Russell Vought says the administration plans to send up another wave of spending…
Stakeholders and lawmakers are cheering after the Trump administration ended a pause on $6 billion in federal after-school and summer school funding following rare bipartisan pushback. Advocates and states have been on the edge of their seats since President Trump declined to release the money, which also funds adult education and English language efforts, on…
The controversy surrounding the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files is poised to dominate the conversation on Capitol Hill this week, as Congress sprints to its August recess — and prepares to dive into government funding conversations. The House returns to Washington on Monday for its final week before breaking for the long summer…
The “big, beautiful bill” is expected to make a major dent in the U.S.’s climate progress, adding significantly more planet-warming emissions to the atmosphere. Models of the legislation that have emerged since its passage earlier this month show that U.S. emissions will rise as a result of its implementation. One from climate think tank C2ES…
New York Democrats cool to their party’s Big Apple mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani are weighing their options as the 33-year-old progressive makes his own pitch to centrists that they should back him. The Democratic establishment has been looking for alternatives, but none really satisfy. Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week announced an independent…
No nation is healthy when floods are sweeping children away, fires are burning families alive in their homes, and tornadoes are leveling entire towns as its people do nothing of consequence to keep those tragedies from becoming normal.
