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The Trump administration is freezing child care payments to Minnesota and demanding a comprehensive audit to identify any illicit activity in government programs, escalating a fight with the state over alleged fraud.

No one throws a “Happy 250th Birthday, America” jammy jam like a Philadelphia museum.

The Trump administration, in its ongoing push to boost fossil fuels, issued an emergency order Tuesday to keep an aging coal-fired power plant in Craig, Colorado, operating even though it was scheduled to be retired this week.

The acting director of the National Park Service believes 2025 was a “kick-ass year.” Advocates for what polls say is the most popular federal agency might use the same term, but with a far different meaning than Jessica Bowron intended in a year-end email to Park Service managers.

Democrat Zohran Mamdani became New York City's mayor on Thursday, kicking off his term during a public swearing-in ceremony on the steps of City Hall and aiming to deliver on a liberal agenda and address cost-of-living concerns.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's administration said on Tuesday it was auditing immigration cases involving U.S. citizens of Somali origin to detect fraud that could lead to denaturalization, or revocation of citizenship.

Tatiana Schlossberg, a journalist who told stories of the changing climate and the ways humans can help protect the environment, and whose terminal illness and position in the Kennedy family thrust her into the national spotlight late in life, died Dec. 30. She was 35.

DENVER — High in the mountains west of Fort Collins, teams of scientists and engineers are pretending to be beavers. They may not be swimming or chewing trees, but researchers with the U.S. Forest Service and Colorado State University are building fake beaver dams in burn scars to study how wetlands created by the dams impact ecosystem restoration and water quality after wildfires. The ...

The South Carolina health department reported 176 measles cases related to the ongoing outbreak in the state on Tuesday, 20 additional cases since its last update on Friday.

 In the two years she has lived at Bowen Tower, Cynthia Barlow’s apartment has flooded, been plagued by mold and been infested with cockroaches. The building’s heat stopped working. When the elevators broke over the summer, emergency workers carried a sick neighbor down 10 flights of stairs.

The Social Security Administration - the sprawling federal agency that delivers retirement, disability and survivor benefits to 74 million Americans - began the second Trump administration with a hostile takeover.

Clear and dry weather is in store for most of the country for New Year’s Eve, but snow, rain or wind could disrupt holiday travel in parts of the Midwest, Northeast and California, forecasters warned.

When Bianca Jones, a 33-year-old special education teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, decided a couple of years ago that she wanted to buy a house, she started digging into her Experian credit report. She was shocked by what she found.

After Missouri lawmakers passed a gerrymandered congressional map this fall, opponents submitted more than 300,000 signatures seeking to force a statewide vote on whether to overturn the map. But Republican state officials say they will use the map in the meantime. 

A North Carolina house fire reportedly killed the father of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin and critically injured his mother. 

Federal officials on Monday announced funding amounts for its new rural health program, which will dole out $50 billion across the country over the next five years. For the 2026 fiscal year, Texas will receive more than $281 million, according to the announcement, which is more than any other state. The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which is administering the Rural Health ...