Colleges and teaching hospitals are the cornerstones of the city’s economy — and identity. But federal funding cuts to higher education could change that.
Colleges and teaching hospitals are the cornerstones of the city’s economy — and identity. But federal funding cuts to higher education could change that.
Thousands of federal workers were put out of a job and dozens of offices were hollowed out as a result of the Trump administration’s layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
A standoff between garbage collectors and municipal officials in Britain’s second largest city has left an estimated 17,000 tons of trash on the streets.
Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who advance generic drug approvals were also dismissed.
Heirloom tomatoes imported from Canada, left, and avocados imported from Mexico in a Pittsburgh market last month. Inspections and testing of imported foods could be affected by the F.D.A. layoffs.
Responses to the mass firings in the federal government. Also: Cory Booker’s speech; talk of a third Trump term; Republicans and Ukraine; a letter to Canada.