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The campus of Yale University seen in New Haven, Conn. Yale is one of 45 colleges that are under investigation for allegedly engaging in "race-exclusionary practices."

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How the Ph.D. Project, and 45 colleges, became a target of the Trump administration

For about 30 years, the Ph.D. Project has supported students from underrepresented groups who are earning doctoral degrees in business. Now, it's attracted the attention of the Trump administration.

March 24, 2025
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  • Elissa Nadworny
Naomi, 7 (Left), and Makena, 9 (Center) hold signs and chant during a rally in front of the Department of Education to protest budget cuts.

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  • Education

How the Education Department cuts could hurt low-income and rural schools

With cuts to nearly all the staff at the Department of Education's primary data agency, low-income and rural schools may not get the federal funds they rely on in coming years.

March 22, 2025
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  • Jonaki Mehta
The federal student loan portfolio – which manages about $1.6 trillion in loans for roughly 43 million borrowers – is currently overseen by the Education Department's office of Federal Student Aid (FSA).

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  • Education

Trump says Education Department will no longer oversee student loans, 'special needs'

The president said federal student loans would move to the Small Business Administration, and hinted that the Department of Health and Human Services would take over special education oversight.

March 21, 2025
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  • Cory Turner
On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive action to begin dismantling the U.S. Department of Education.

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Trump signs order aiming to close the Education Department

The Trump administration has already moved to cut the department's staff by half.

March 20, 2025
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  • Cory Turner
President Donald Trump has promised to greatly curtail the federal government and a memo released Monday by the Office of Management and Budget aims to follow through on that promise by halting a large swath of federal grant programs.

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Trump memo to halt federal funds triggers confusion and constitutional questions

Washington is scrambling to interpret a new Trump administration memo that appears to halt funding for many programs. The impact of the short memo, released Monday, is causing widespread confusion.

January 28, 2025
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  • Deirdre Walsh,
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Inauguration preparations have shifted at the U.S. Capitol following the announcement that the ceremony will be moved indoors.

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President-elect Donald Trump moves inauguration indoors, citing frigid temperatures

President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he will move the inauguration ceremony indoors as Washington, DC prepares for record low temperatures. The ceremony will now take place inside the Capitol rotunda.

January 17, 2025
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  • Lexie Schapitl
Scott Bessent speaks at the National Conservative Conference in Washington, D.C., on July 10, 2024. Bessent is Trump's nominee to be the next Treasury Secretary.

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Trump nominates Wall Street investor Scott Bessent as treasury secretary

President-elect Trump nominated Bessent, a former protégé of George Soros to be his next treasury secretary.

November 22, 2024
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  • Maria Aspan
Howard Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, speaks at a rally for president-elect Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York on Oct. 27, 2024.

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Trump picks Wall Street investor Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary

President-elect Trump picked Lutnick, the CEO of investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald, to be his next Commerce Secretary.

November 19, 2024
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  • Maria Aspan and
  • Scott Horsley
President-elect Trump announced former acting ICE director Tom Homan (left) as his incoming border czar, joining a long list of presidents who have appointed czars to oversee specific issues — like Obama's "car czar" Steven Rattner (right).

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  • Politics

One thing Trump and Obama have in common: a fondness for 'czars'

Trump is the latest president to appoint a czar to deal with a particular issue — in this case, the border. But what does that mean? A look at the controversial history of government czars.

November 15, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman

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