Trump's presidential transition

How the Education Department helps students with disabilities get an education

5:00am April 03, 2025

Special education laws and the U.S. Department of Education have evolved together over nearly five decades. Now, the Trump administration seems to want to separate the two.

It's been a wild rollout of Trump's tariffs. Here's how we got here

5:00am April 02, 2025

President Trump's tariff talk has been big — and also unpredictable. He's frequently made threats only to back off or shift deadlines. Here, a look at how the tariff agenda has rolled out.

6 things borrowers should know about federal student loans right now

5:00am March 31, 2025

NPR has spent the past few weeks catching up with student loan experts and asking the Trump administration for clarity on some of borrowers' biggest questions.

President Trump Meets With NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte In The Oval Office Of The White House

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Signal chat fallout, tariff tension — and 3 more takeaways from Trump's week

5:00am March 28, 2025

Here, five takeaways from a week when the Trump administration has had to deal with the Signal chat leak, announced new tariffs and made more deportations.

Pete Marocco (center), who served as deputy administrator-designate at USAID in the new Trump administration until last week, met with members of Congress to discuss foreign assistance.

Pete Marocco tried to upend USAID in 2020 -- and failed. In 2025, he dismantled it

10:43am March 25, 2025

This Trump administration official was a key figure in the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development — and will help set the agenda for the future of foreign aid.

Jackie Robinson Signing With Organized Baseball

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Pentagon restores webpages of Black veterans, Navajo Code Talkers and others after outcry

11:05am March 20, 2025

A Pentagon official not authorized to speak publicly said its review to scrub websites of DEI content was too hasty and also used search terms like "gay," leading to the flagging of Enola Gay images.

Mehmet Oz Testifies In Senate Nomination Hearing To Be Administrator Of The Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services

Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump's pick to lead Medicare and Medicaid, gets his Senate hearing

5:00am March 14, 2025

Dr. Mehmet Oz appeared before the Senate Finance committee Friday for his confirmation hearing to be the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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U.S. Department of Education Staff Layoffs

The Education Department is being cut in half. Here's what's being lost

5:27pm March 12, 2025

by Cory Turner

The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, Institute of Education Sciences and Office of Federal Student Aid were especially impacted by the cuts announced on Tuesday.

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What parents, teachers and school choice groups think of Education Department cuts

3:56pm March 12, 2025

Teacher unions and some parent groups condemned the cuts, while school choice advocates celebrated them.

A man walks past the U.S. Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 7.

U.S. Education Department says it is cutting nearly half of all staff

5:06pm March 11, 2025

According to the department, more than 1,300 positions will be cut as a result of this reduction in force. Roughly another 600 employees have accepted voluntary resignations or retired.

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