George Washington patented 10,900 acres along the Kanawha River in what is now Mason County, West Virginia. What started off ...

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to start dismant l ing the Education Department. "It sounds strange ...

ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to change how U.S. elections are run is creating uncertainty for state and local election officials and worries about voter confusion ...

ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to change how U.S. elections are run is creating uncertainty for state and local election officials and worries about voter ...

Academy Faculty Member, The Queen Elizabeth II Academy, Chatham House; Claire Tow Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University The ‘liberal international order’ that has been ...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday to close the Education Department, fulfilling a yearslong pledge to dismantle the federal agency, the White House confirmed.

Congress, since it created the Department of Education, still needs to authorize its elimination. A White House fact sheet states that the order directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon “to take all ...

President Donald Trump has agreed to rescind an executive order that suspended security clearances for lawyers and staff at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, according to a ...

Trump said his administration wants to shut down the Department of Education “as quickly as possible,” adding “we want to return our students to the states,” though it would ultimately ...

Trump signed the order in a ceremony while flanked by schoolchildren. President Donald Trump, surrounded by schoolchildren sitting at desks, signed an executive order that aims to further gut the ...

President Donald Trump will likely sign an executive order Thursday to dismantle the Department of Education, according to multiple reports, after earlier moves by Trump to overhaul the department ...