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After long months when President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk appeared united in their chaotic mission to remake ...

A coalition of education and religious freedom groups rallied near the U.S. Capitol urging senators to defeat a Republican ...

A breakdown in negotiations over a tax cut and other spending measures in Wisconsin threatens to put the 2026 race for ...

When Trump was pressed about how he could blame women, disabled people, and people of color for a plane crash well before any ...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill providing $8.5 billion in new funding for Texas public schools, offering relief to ...

While the legislation does not give schools as much spending flexibility as they had hoped for, it makes targeted investments ...

The legislation includes new pots of money for teacher raises and other school costs like insurance and transportation.

Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said in an ...

The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial ...