Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.

Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration of conducting a “wholesale assault on U.S. science” that threatens the health and safety of Americans.

Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.

Treasury yields hit their lowest level of the year as investors move away from riskier assets ahead of President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement. Early Tuesday morning, the 10-year yield declined to 4.

Stock-market investors hope President Trump’s April 2 tariff announcements will provide much wanted certainty. They shouldn’t count on it.

The president who had promised in his Inaugural Address that “the Golden Age of America begins right now” was all of a sudden suggesting that “there will be a little disturbance, but we’re OK with that.

President Donald Trump’s administration expanded its campaign against elite universities, threatening to scrutinize billions of dollars of federal funding for Harvard University, weeks after freezing money meant for Columbia University.

The order eliminates library services for blind and visually impaired people, which currently helps thousands of Mainers.

Harvard, the wealthiest school in the world, sought compromise amid pressure to do more to combat antisemitism. The Trump administration is examining its funding anyway. The post Professors pushed Harvard to resist Trump.