Tag: grants
Inside Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant’s Excellent Love Story
No simulation here: Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant started off as creative collaborators and the romance that blossomed is the real deal. We’re still not sure if those were squeals of delight or howls of mourning when it became clear that Keanu Reeves was off the market. But whichever reaction you identify with, finding out…
Supreme Court allows NIH to stop making nearly $800M in research grants for now
By Nina Totenberg , Anuli Ononye The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned by a 5-4 decision a lower court order, deciding at least temporarily, that the National Institute of Health does not need to continue paying out approximately $783 million in research grants to projects that the institute has since-stopped funding. But the court, in…
Federal judge rules cuts to humanities grants were ‘unlawful’
Elizabeth Blair A federal judge has ruled that the government’s abrupt elimination of humanities grants previously approved by Congress was “unlawful” and that a lawsuit brought by humanities groups can move forward. In April, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), terminated grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to thousands of groups across the…
Supreme Court grants DOGE access to confidential Social Security records
By Nina Totenberg , Anuli Ononye The Supreme Court, on Friday, for now gave the DOGE team launched by Elon Musk unfettered access to information collected by the Social Security Administration, data that includes Social Security numbers, medical and mental health records, and family court information. In an unsigned order, the court, acting at the…
First group of white South Africans arrive in US after Trump grants refugee status
Trump stirs controversy by calling Afrikaners, minority descended from Dutch colonists, victims of a ‘genocide’ The first group of white South Africans granted refugee status by Donald Trump’s administration has arrived in the US, stirring controversy in South Africa as the US president declared the Afrikaners victims of a “genocide”. The Afrikaners, a minority descended…
FEMA to Halt Billions in Grants for Disaster Protection, Internal Memo Says
FEMA to Halt Billions in Grants for Disaster Protection, Internal Memo Says An internal FEMA memo says the agency is canceling future and existing grants that help states and tribes prepare for floods, tornadoes and other disasters By Thomas Frank & E&E News Parishioners and community members look over damage after a tornado struck the…
As Trump and DOGE Block Federal Grants, Wildfire Prevention Projects Are at Risk
Wildfire Prevention Projects at Risk as Federal Grants Vanish Efforts to limit wildfires in a conservative swath of northern Colorado are the latest casualty of the Trump administration’s on-and-off federal spending freeze By Corbin Hiar & E&E News A helicopter flies through the Cache La Poudre Canyon as flames score the forest south of the…
Inside the NSF’s Effort to Scour Research Grants for Violations of Trump’s Orders
Inside the NSF’s Effort to Scour Research Grants for Violations of Trump’s Orders The U.S. National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil By Dan Garisto, Max Kozlov & Nature magazine The National Science Foundation, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, funds about 25 percent of basic US academic…