Maryland lawmakers on Wednesday sent a letter to federal agency leaders expressing concerns about the recently lifted work stoppage at a National Institutes of Heath research facility based at Fort ...

There’s been a fundamental destruction,” one researcher said. It’s going to “take a very, very long time to rebuild.” ...

Former counterterrorism official Joe Kent catapulted into headlines this week after he claimed in his resignation letter that Iran posed "no imminent threat" to the U.S. Why it matters: Despite the ...

President Trump's director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, announced his immediate resignation Tuesday, citing the administration's decision to intervene in Iran.

A group of universities that oversee the country’s largest federal climate research center filed a lawsuit Monday challenging ...

The Trump administration is closing in on its pick to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as the nation’s top public health agency grapples with a barrage of attacks and leadership ...

Donald Trump announced Monday that White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has early stage breast cancer, and will be ...

Two leading democracy watchdog organizations are releasing studies this week that evaluate the state of American democracy after President Trump's first year.

As a lawsuit by the former staff drags on, the fight highlights President Trump’s upending of traditional peace-building and ...

The respiratory illness RSV is still going strong in Chicago – an unusually late showing for the virus, which can strike infants especially hard.

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.