Fed likely to hold rates steady despite Trump call for cuts as it awaits tariff, immigration changes
President Trump may want lower interest rates, but the Federal Reserve will almost certainly keep its benchmark interest rate ...
US children fall further behind in reading, make little improvement in math on national exam
America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little ...
After talking tough during campaign, Trump appears to ease up on China at start of presidency
On the campaign trail last year, President Donald Trump talked tough about imposing tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese goods ...
A mysterious meeting with Syrian president is at the center of spy chief's nomination fight
When Tulsi Gabbard returned to Washington from a clandestine sit-down with Syria’s then-president Bashar Assad eight years ...
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The Senate’s Tulsi Gabbard Test
As it weighs the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard for the position of Director of National Intelligence, the United States Senate faces a fundamental choice: Should it reject those like Gabbard who ...
Trump Is Looking to Boot Transgender Troops From the Military. Here's Why That's Complicated
President Donald Trump has launched his second bid to oust all transgender troops from the military, and once again it will ...
American Children’s Reading Skills Reach New Lows
The percentage of eighth graders who have “below basic” reading skills according to NAEP was the largest it has been in the ...
‘The challenge is real’: Nation’s Report Card test shows little to no pandemic recovery in Mass. schools
Nationwide, scores were stagnant in both grades in math and declined in both grades in reading. Massachusetts students also declined in eighth-grade reading, while Boston eighth graders declined in ...