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Secretary of Energy Chris Wright listens during a press conference this spring at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP/AP hide caption toggle caption Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP/AP The Department of Energy is cancelling more than $7 billion in funding for hundreds of projects that the agency said don’t address the country’s energy needs and aren’t economically viable. The DOE issued the announcement late Wednesday, the first day of a government shutdown and hours after White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said the Trump administration was cancelling nearly $8 billion in “Green New Scam funding.”…

The head of a presidential library resigned this week after a tug-of-war with the Trump administration over gift selection and a sword for King Charles III, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Todd Arrington, a career historian who previously held posts with the National Park Service and National Archives and Records Administration, stepped down on Monday as director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home.Sources said Arrington’s departure came after he resisted taking an original Eisenhower sword out of the library’s collection to give to King Charles last month during President Trump’s unprecedented second state…

Society / October 1, 2025 His family says he left for college happy and healthy. Soon after, he was found hanging from a tree on campus. Yet local officials are refusing calls to investigate further. Ad Policy (Mykola Romanovskyy / Getty Images) De’Martravion “Trey” Reed—21 years old, Black, not even a month into his freshman year of college—was found hanging from a fruit tree on the campus Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, just after 7 am on September 15. Within eight hours, campus police told the press there was “no evidence of foul play,” the coroner’s office declared no…

Researchers from Purdue University are set to travel to the South Pacific to determine if a “visual anomaly” on a remote island is the wreck of Amelia Earhart’s lost plane, saying there is “very strong” evidence the object is the iconic aviator’s aircraft.  Earhart was attempting to become the first female pilot to circle the world when she and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937. Earhart, Noonan and their plane, an Electra 10E, were never found. Recently, President Trump ordered records related to Earhart be declassified. In 2020, researchers looking at satellite imagery identified a…

House Speaker Mike Johnson told “CBS Mornings” on Thursday that Republicans and Democrats are not currently engaged in negotiations to end the government shutdown.”There’s no negotiation right now because the Democrats have dug in,” he told “CBS Mornings.”Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said that his GOP colleagues are urging their Democratic counterparts to approve a clean extension of government spending levels, which would allow negotiators more time to work on appropriations measures.”All we’re asking is that Senate Democrats do what they have always done in the past, every single time and allow the additional clock,” he said.Johnson said he was not…

When President Trump came into office, he promised to fuel an economic boom with a magic bullet: tariffs. They’re taxes added to a wide range of imports. And money is coming in, more than $30 billion a month so far. Eight months into Trump’s second term, it’s unclear what the larger impact of these tariffs will have on the economy. Despite that, the president keeps promising to roll out new ones. NPR’s chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley explains. 🔔 Subscribe on YouTube and never miss an episode🎧 Prefer audio? Listen anywhere you find podcasts❤️ Get sponsor-free episodes Source link

Many Americans are eager to put money away for retirement, but that goal is increasingly out of reach because more workers are living paycheck to paycheck, a new Goldman Sachs study finds.Roughly 42% of younger working Americans — spanning Gen Z, millennials and Gen X — report having no spare savings after covering their basic living expenses, according to the analysis, which surveyed about 3,600 workers and 1,500 retirees. Among those just getting by, about three-quarters said they are struggling to save for retirement, the survey found. The share of U.S. workers in this precarious financial position has grown significantly since…

Economy / Hiding in Plain Sight / October 1, 2025 On the brink of a potentially devastating government shutdown, Trump spent his day with Pete Hegseth haranguing generals at a summit that should’ve been an e-mail. Ad Policy President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, DC, on September 30, 2025.(Francis Chung / Politico / Bloomberg via Getty Images) As I write this, the US government is in the early stages of another shutdown, this one triggered by the Republicans’ refusal to budge on funding…

Citing the 9/11 attacks and other threats, a U.S. judge on Wednesday blocked the federal government from diverting or withdrawing $34 million in funding to protect New York’s transportation system from terrorist attacks.Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said the state of New York will “quite likely” be able to prove its claims that the money would be improperly diverted because the Trump administration wanted to punish New York for not cooperating with its massive deportation program.The state sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday, noting that the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks let to…

An Idaho state judge is blocking the release of some graphic photos taken by investigators after Bryan Kohberger killed four University of Idaho students in 2022, ruling that the release would cause “extreme emotional distress” for the victims’ families and that it “outweighs the public’s interest in how the investigation was conducted or the scrutiny upon government action.” Second District Judge Megan Marshall made the ruling Wednesday, saying the dissemination of “incredibly disturbing” photos across the internet — where the victims’ families might inadvertently see them — is an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.She ordered the city of Moscow to black…