NPR correspondents recap how funding cuts, layoffs and leadership and policy changes in the second Trump administration are affecting the Departments of Defense, State and Health and Human Services.

Some of Trump’s policy shifts align with his advisers’ financial interests, setting up potential conflicts of interest.

India announced a raft of measures to downgrade its ties with Pakistan on Wednesday, a day after suspected militants killed ...

The back-and-forth added to the uncertainty surrounding Trump's erratic tariff policy, not just around China, but also as it ...

For the first time, since the dawn of democracy, we experienced the postponement of the 2025 Budget Speech. However, subsequently, after a number of engagements with Political Parties represented in ...

Billionaire and advisor to the president Elon Musk, who is leading Trump’s wide-scale government downsizing effort through the U.S. Doge Service, was also at the meeting. He touted the officials that ...

As the Trump Administration approaches the hundred days mark, we may barely have a country left, but at least we are getting a clearer view who is really responsibility for all the chaos and ...

After uncovering nearly $400 million in fraudulent unemployment payments, Elon Musk 's DOGE has pointed to three Democrat-led ...

Now, it estimates the US effective tariff rate is 27%. The movement in the chart above is at the center of the market's biggest problem right now: The rules of the game keep changing. For now ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a “massive testing and research effort” aimed at determining the cause of the “autism epidemic” by September, HHS Secretary Robert F.

Just a day after pausing his so-called reciprocal tariffs for the next 90 days, President Trump, at a Cabinet meeting, said he believes that his tariffs policy will be a long-term economic win ...