Brad Brooks

The U.S. Agriculture Department has cut two federal programs that spent over $1 billion annually to help schools and food banks buy food from local farms and ranches, the agency has confirmed to Reuters.

A small plane with five people aboard crashed on Sunday into the parking lot of a retirement community in southern Pennsylvania, authorities said.

"I was in church yesterday and I wept for my country," said former U.S. Congressman David Skaggs who organized the protest. "We need to take a deep breath and gather our courage and stand up for what we know is right."

The Trump administration last week moved to end protections against deportation for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the U.S.

Federal officials said they were targeting over 100 alleged members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang with prison origins that has expanded throughout the Americas.

Officials said they could not yet confirm how many people may have died on the ground.

The U.S. Department of Education said on Tuesday it was investigating whether the Denver school system discriminated against women and girls by converting a female bathroom into one for all genders.

New York's governor on Monday ordered prison reforms and began the process of firing corrections officers who earlier this month beat a restrained Black inmate who died a few hours later.

A New Mexico criminal case against actor Alec Baldwin stemming from a fatal shooting on the set of his movie "Rust" in 2021 ended on Monday, with a prosecutor dropping her appeal of the case's dismissal.

The Biden administration on Friday withdrew a proposed rule change that would have prohibited schools from banning transgender athletes from teams matching their gender identities.