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A new report from the Century Foundation found that state and institutional grant aid too often flows to higher-income students who don’t need it, while low-income…

A new class action lawsuit against Spotify alleges the company has “turned a blind eye” to “mass-scale fraudulent streaming” on its platform and that one musician…

Who will pay for global health? Scientists and policy leaders explored this question when they met this week at the World Health Summit in Berlin. The…

Two weeks into the government shutdown, the Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion that had been reserved for more than 200 projects primarily…

The Department of Energy is looking to cut billions more in federal funding, and many promising startups as well as automakers Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis…

The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, on Wednesday announced that his department will return to the treasury billions of dollars set aside for green projects, while…

Support for this article was provided by the Pulitzer Center.Last month, a parade of vehicles wound its way through three cities in Brazil, releasing clouds of…

Judge sides with Harvard and orders Trump to reverse funding cutsA federal judge in Boston has sided with Harvard university in its court battle with the…

For more than a decade, scientists have been puzzling over what was causing billions of starfish to dissolve into piles of white goo. Sea star wasting…

Last week, the National Institutes of Health finally got some good news. A Senate subcommittee voted, with support from both parties, to increase the agency’s $48…