15+ hour, 50+ min ago   (662+ words) A multi-billion-dollar federal program that helps schools and libraries afford broadband internet is under review by the Trump administration, leaving education officials and advocates worried about potentially significant cuts. The E-Rate program provides about $3 billion annually for internet access and…...

15+ hour, 50+ min ago   (367+ words) A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling for the Trump administration to suspend a new surveillance program it quietly launched to collect the personal and identifiable health data of Americans who visit emergency rooms. KFF Health News first reported that…...

15+ hour, 50+ min ago   (710+ words) DALLAS -- On a sunny afternoon earlier this summer, there were not 70,000 screaming soccer fans inside the temporarily renamed Dallas Stadium -- it was a few days after Spain had sent Portugal packing, and a few days before Spain would dismantle France…...

15+ hour, 50+ min ago   (445+ words) KANSAS CITY -- After months of escalating chaos over the state's congressional map, Missouri voters can be forgiven if they're still trying to understand what will appear on their ballot in November. Answers about Missouri's midterms are coming into focus following…...

15+ hour, 50+ min ago   (911+ words) Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh faces intense pressure to raise interest rates at next week's policy meeting after a highly anticipated inflation report showed U.S. consumer prices marched higher last month. Underlying inflation rose more than expected in August, as the…...

15+ hour, 50+ min ago   (910+ words) If would-be college students prove a tough sell, there's an even larger population of American workers who have what it takes to build ships but don't want to, said Gary Kim, a Wharton School graduate student who has studied U.S., Chinese,…...

15+ hour, 50+ min ago   (795+ words) A six-member bloc of Gulf states is weighing a meeting with Iranian officials this week to discuss the future of the Strait of Hormuz, people familiar with the matter said, in what would be the first gathering with the Islamic…...

15+ hour, 50+ min ago   (325+ words) The Trump administration is trying to help Americans better afford homes by cutting regulation, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner said Thursday on Bloomberg Television. But he declined to address the effects of rising bond yields that have increased…...

15+ hour, 50+ min ago   (840+ words) Just 10 days ago, Steven Rogers says he would have predicted Missourians were set to reinstate an abortion ban this November. Then the latest polling results landed in his inbox. Now the professor of political science at Saint Louis University says…...

15+ hour, 50+ min ago   (1763+ words) Powerful U.S. officials past and present faced families, survivors and first responders Friday at ceremonies to honor the 25th anniversary of the day 2,977 Americans died in terrorist attacks in Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania. At the Pentagon, Condoleezza Rice, who was serving…...