“This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States,” said the head of the White House Correspondents’ Association. “In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.” As part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s long-running war with the news media, White House Press Secretary […]
“This vague and clearly unconstitutional memo is a grave attack on students, our profession, and knowledge itself,” said one union leader. A coalition of educators and sociologists filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the U.S. Department of Education for threatening to withhold funding from schools that don’t comply with the Trump administration’s radical revision of […]
U.S. consumer confidence plunged in February in its biggest monthly decline in more than four years, a business research group said Tuesday. The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index dropped from 105.3 in January to 98.3 this month, the largest month-to-month decline since August 2021. With U.S. consumer spending accounting for about 70% of […]
“The 295,000 active and retired members of the National Association of Letter Carriers have a message to deliver to the White House: Hands off the Postal Service.” Postal workers and labor movement allies rallied in Washington, D.C. on Monday to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s reported plan to seize control of the independent and beloved Postal Service, […]