President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House on May 20, 2025, in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Companies such as BAE Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, L3Harris and ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is bulking up its AI agent platform, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, to make building and monitoring AI agents easier for enterprises. AWS announced multiple new AgentCore features ...

The Health and Human Services Department is proposing new initiatives for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including a program to increase hepatitis B screening for pregnant women, as ...

Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.

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The government shutdown and recent accidents have shown the Air Traffic Control system’s vulnerability. It should be turned into an independent, nonprofit organization removed from politics. The ...

Almost everyone agrees that the US air traffic control system is broken. Longstanding staffing shortages. Antiquated technology. And now, air traffic controllers are caught in the middle of a ...

Starting next fall, the University of California system office will no longer help pay salaries for faculty hired out of the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a fellowship established in ...

The layoffs have raised fears that the administration could be effectively ending an initiative that provides contraception for millions of low-income women. By Caroline Kitchener Reporting from ...