March 6, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 04: President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Vice President Mike Pence look on in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives on February 04, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump delivers his third State of the Union to the nation the night before the U.S. Senate is set to vote in his impeachment trial. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Politics

As Trump delivers joint address, Black women of Congress help lead the resistance

Published on March 6, 2025

By Gerren Keith Gaynor Donald Trump’s first joint address to Congress as the 47th president of the United States on Tuesday night was met with resistance from Democrats on Capitol Hill. But it’s the elected Black members, particularly Black women, of Congress who are working to lead and shape the opposition to Trump’s agenda. Ahead

Christian Carrera, a Visiting Research Specialist at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Nursing, processes a specimen that is part of a study under a RO1 federal grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, at the UIC campus in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. February 28, 2025. REUTERS/Vincent Alban

Politics/Research

Federal judge blocks Trump administration’s drastic funding cuts to medical research

Published on March 6, 2025

By Lauren Neergaard A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding that many scientists say will endanger patients and cost jobs. The new National Institutes of Health policy would strip research groups of hundreds of millions of dollars to cover so-called indirect expenses of studying Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease and