25 min ago - January 25, 2025 11:35 AM ET The Food and Drug Administration has removed webpages about diversity and inclusion in clinical trials for cancer drugs. The page for Project Equity, a 2021 initiative launched by the FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence t ... (NPR)

49 min ago - Published 2:57 p.m. ET Jan. 25, 2025 NEW YORK - The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is "more likely" to have emerged from a lab rather than from nature, an agency spokesperson said on Saturday. The agency had for y ... (USA Today)

1 hr ago - UNITED NATIONS -- The war in Gaza has been devastating for children: More than 13,000 have been killed, an estimated 25,000 injured, and at least 25,000 hospitalized for malnutrition, according to U.N. agencies. As Britain's deputy U.N. ambassador, J ... (Minnesota Star Tribune)

1 hr ago - Posted January 25, 2025 at 12:38pm President Donald Trump issued a memo Friday evening that would reinstate two global family planning policies and rescinded two Biden administration memos — his first major foray into regulating reproductive hea ... (Roll Call)

1 hr ago - Jan. 25, 2025, 4:59 PM EST WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Saturday invited President Donald Trump to deliver an address to Congress in March, a speech that would mark Trump’s first joint address to Congress of his second term. I ... (NBC News)

2 hrs ago - 8h Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk has initiated conversations about using blockchain technology at the new Department of Government Efficiency, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. It’s the latest sign of the Trump administration ... (msn/Bloomberg)

2 hrs ago - January 25, 2025 2:21 PM EST Updated 3 hours ago WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's White House has instructed the U.S. military to release a hold imposed by the Biden administration on the supply of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, ... (Reuters)

2 hrs ago - The U.S. State Department office that funds the clearance of unexploded munitions around the world has asked humanitarian demining organizations funded by the department to cease operations “effective immediately,” according to a surprise a ... (NYT)

3 hrs ago - Published 7:30 AM EST, Sat January 25, 2025 CNN — Just as former presidents, foreign dignitaries and industry leaders traveled to Washington this week for the presidential inauguration, so too did another group that occupies a unique place in ... (CNN Politics)

3 hrs ago - The British government is currently considering a policy that would allow tech companies to use creators’ works to train AI models unless creators specifically opt out. In an interview with the BBC, set to air on Sunday (Jan. 26), the 82-year-ol ... (Billboard)

3 hrs ago - President Trump on Thursday signed a memorandum asking the Department of the Interior to move towards fully recognizing the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina as Native American. It's a move that could provide legitimacy and federal benefits to the tribe ... (NPR)

3 hrs ago - 01/25/25 1:03 PM ET Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) condemned President Trump’s move to fire more than a dozen watchdogs at several federal agencies overnight, calling it a “chilling purge.” “This is a chilling purge ... (The Hill)

4 hrs ago - January 25, 2025 10:47AM ET While Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the face of Canadian opposition to President Donald Trump in his first term, that role now appears to belong to Ontario Premier Doug Ford. In a lengthy interview with Politi ... (Raw Story)

5 hrs ago - January 25, 2025, 10:58 AM The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it is rescinding all past guidance issued against the removal of books and will no longer employ a coordinator to investigate instances of u ... (ABC News)

6 hrs ago - 7 hours ago School leaders across the U.S. are working to reassure parents about potential immigration enforcement on campuses after the Trump administration reversed a long-standing policy discouraging enforcement in "sensitive" areas. Why it matter ... (Axios)

6 hrs ago - January 25, 2025 10:05 AM EST Updated 4 hours ago NEW YORK, Jan 25 (Reuters) - U.S. TikTok users who once saw the app as a haven for free speech say they see signs of censorship after the platform, which is owned by China's ByteDance, was revived by ... (Reuters)

7 hrs ago - 9h President Donald Trump and the new Republican-controlled Congress could make major changes for millions of student-loan borrowers. That new GOP trifecta is likely to unwind several of former President Joe Biden's moves on student debt relief. A m ... (msn/Business Insider)

8 hrs ago - 01/25/2025 12:02 PM EST The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday, voting to give President Donald Trump another Cabinet official who has pledged to help carry out his aggressive crackdown on ill ... (Politico)

8 hrs ago - Sat 25 Jan 2025 08.00 EST Last modified on Sat 25 Jan 2025 08.02 EST The US city of Phoenix is close to breaking another extreme weather record, this time the longest stretch without rain as drought conditions worsen across Arizona. As of Saturday, ... (The Guardian)

10 hrs ago - 01/24/25 11:09 PM ET House Democrats urged President Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio to lift the foreign assistance freeze mandated by an executive order from earlier this week, cutting off most U.S-funded foreign development projects aro ... (The Hill)