Americans across the country received harmful hate messages via text after the election. The communication industry has been ...

Police have sealed off a junction on the M8 in Lanarkshire as they hunt for a man with a potential weapon. Just before 9am, on Monday, February 3, police received a report of a man with a ...

Some federal employees at the Education Department have been placed on administrative leave for previously attending a diversity training. Several employees began receiving leave notices late ...

The order is expected to ask for a plan to shutter the department. President Donald Trump could soon sign an executive order directing the secretary of education to dismantle the federal ...

Dozens of employees with the Department of Education were placed on administrative leave Friday, allegedly after attending a diversity training course encouraged by then-Secretary Betsy DeVos ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is considering steps to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, with potential executive action coming as early as this month. A White House official told ...

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At least 55 Education Department employees, including senior-level career workers who have served at the agency for decades, were notified Friday night that they’d been placed on paid leave ...

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President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order aimed at eventually closing the Education Department and, in the short term, dismantling it from within, according to three people briefed on ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will take steps to defund the federal Education Department, a White House official said on Monday, adding an announcement ...

Rachel Reeves has told several Whitehall departments to prepare for their budgets to be frozen under ‘flat cash’ spending plans, it emerged last night. With sluggish growth and high borrowing ...