Politics

OSHA webpages removed for containing the word “diversity” had no relation to gender or racial diversity

A federal commission to examine U.S. chronic disease could undercut real treatment for kids with depression, ADHD and other mental health challenges

The Trump administration has acted fast to attack science with a range of funding and policy tactics

At an emotional meeting, NSF officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings to come

After firing 200 first-year employees this weekend, FEMA was directed "to make a list" of anyone who worked on climate or equity

Proposed U.S. space defenses against hypersonic nuclear missiles are unnecessary, impractical and would trigger a dangerous new arms race

America's status as a global science leader is in doubt as the administration freezes funding and targets research that references climate or diversity

The Department of Energy, Forest Service and Office of Personnel Management are among agencies that have begun firing staffers

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has expressed support for some fields of science but has also declared he’d like a “break” in infectious-disease research. Here’s what he might do as the U.S.’s newly confirmed secretary of health and human services

President Trump ordered EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to decide by next week whether the agency could abandon its authority to regulate climate pollution under the Clean Air Act

Billions of dollars for rural electric cooperatives are stuck in limbo as the Department of Agriculture continues the Trump administration’s funding freeze, despite federal court orders

“Laboratories would literally go dark,” says a medical research insider, if Trump administration cuts to NIH funding go through. Patients will suffer from lost medical advances, he tells Scientific American