Leaders in the Education Department systematically failed to manage deadlines and badly underestimated technical shortcomings while overhauling the Free Application for Federal Student Aidditowins, according to a pair of damaging reports released by

New Jersey’s attorney general has ordered an overhaul of the internal affairs unit of the State Police and seized control of its human resources department after concluding that disciplinary investigations had been “weaponized” against some troopers

Congress on Wednesday gave final approval to a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown just ahead of the November electionswinner777, sending the legislation to President Biden’s desk but punting a bigger funding fight to the end of

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Former President Donald J. Trump was briefed on Tuesday by U.S. intelligence officials about “specific threats from Iran to assassinate himotso,” according to his campaign. U.S. intelligence agencies had previously tracked a potential Iranian assass

No one was in charge of planning and security decisions for the July 13 campaign rally where former President Donald J. Trump was shot, according to a preliminary report released Wednesday by a Senate committee that described a withering list of Sec

The Greenland shark is not exactly charismatic. Its hulking frame is covered by sandpaper skin. Its fins, stunted, sit awkwardly along its sides. And its eyes, perpetually cloudy, are often host to wormlike parasites that dangle as the shark slowly

The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first appeared on Earth more than 25 million years ago, and by 1662, because of humans, it had vanish

Almost 44 percent of the United States could experience a landslidepanalo999, according to new data from government scientists. Some of those potential landslides could be catastrophic, according to researchers, but no one knows when they could happ