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The White House was expected to ban sales of the high-performance AI chip to China. Chinese companies had been stockpiling the chip but now the Trump administration is backing off.
It was a chaotic week for the nation's health agencies, as layoff notices rolled in along with an order for deep cuts to contract spending. NPR's health reporters tell us what they've learned.
Health agency staffers describe a week of chaos and continued uncertainty about who still has a job and how the work will get done. To many it's the opposite of 'government efficiency.' ...
Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, ...
On Monday, DOGE told NEH staff that it would lay off a substantial number of employees and cut its grant programs ... that ...
Federal health agencies have to slash their spending on contracts by more than a third, on top of the 10,000-person staffing ...
The best strategy for public broadcasting would be to take their own decisive steps to ditch federal funding and move on.
The New York Times published a bleak report that detailed who would feel the consequences if government funds were stripped ...
The Trump administration pledged this week to withhold millions from various colleges and universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and Harvard University. Dr.
NPR and PBS used to justify their unjustifiable taxpayer funding by telling people that poor children would be harmed if ...
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