Commercial fishermen and seafood processors and distributors seeking to convert to new, lower-carbon emission systems say they are finding federal funding they were counting on for the work is frozen or unavailable in the wake of sweeping budget cuts touted by President Donald Trump.

A judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal employees by offering them financial incentives.

Democrats are fighting to energize their party’s growing resistance to President Trump and his chief lieutenant, Elon Musk.

Wars, a refugee crisis, famine, and artificial intelligence could all be recognized with Nobel Prizes.

A Stockholm-based watchdog says the world's nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their nuclear weapons as the countries deepened their reliance on nuclear deterrence in 2023.

A report on the world's nuclear weapons says the nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their arsenals and several of them deployed new nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable weapons systems in 2022.

The University of Florida has been asked by its accrediting body to explain how denying a request by three professors to serve as paid experts in a voting rights lawsuit conforms to standards for academic freedom and avoids undue political influence.

The University of Florida is prohibiting three professors from providing expert testimony in a lawsuit challenging a new law that critics claim restricts voting rights.

After publishing a blank front page last week to call attention to its dire financial straits, the Northeast News in Kansas City is learning how it is appreciated.

She carefully planned a five-hour drive to the polling place in her Tennessee hometown to vote on Election Day. Many Americans who lined up before dawn to vote on Election Day are exhausted from constant crises, uneasy because of volatile political divisions and anxious about what will happen next. Instead, those voting in record numbers say basic democratic foundations feel suddenly brittle: Will their vote count? About 7 in 10 voters say they are anxious about the election, according to an AP-NORC poll last month. “It feels a bit different, but it also feels very much the same.”A lot of people were afraid to vote on Election Day, she said.