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During his first term, President Donald Trump tried unsuccessfully on several occasions to axe or drastically reduce funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is a funder of both PBS ...

It was a big day for President Trump's team and some of his most controversial choices. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as the Secretary of Health and Human Services and Kash Patel took a big step ...

Artists and arts organizations are speaking out in defiant response to the Trump administration’s newly announced directives ...

Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) was the first Republican to express concerns about the impact the cuts will have on major medical ...

Black Narratives of Perseverance in Southwest Louisiana,” is more than an exhibit. It is the beginning of a mission to ...

How much of USAID's US$40 billion annual spending and the budgets of the National Endowment for Democracy and other ...

House Republicans have a released a budget plan that would take a wrecking ball to the welfare programs used by millions of ...

Mike Johnson and House Republicans on Wednesday released their budget plan, which would raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion ...

Gov. JB Pritzker has downplayed any interest in running for president when asked by reporters but admitted last August he was ...

Ukraine struck Russia's largest steel plant and an oil pumping station this week while Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin ...

Up until November, a Modesto native was working as a senior policy adviser at the U.S. Agency for International Development, ...