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National Science Foundation faces uncertain future as Trump seeks cuts |
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) future is in limbo as President Trump pushes for more budget cuts and his nominee to helm the research agency awaits Senate confirmation.
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© Mark Schiefelbein, Associated Press
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Since Trump’s return to the White House, the administration has canceled or suspended nearly 1,400 of the agency’s grants, citing changing policy priorities.
A series of internal changes, including layoffs and a shifting funding focus, have also contributed to a reduction in the number of new grants issued by the NSF, which funds a quarter of basic scientific research across the country.
Former NSF directors and organizations representing grant recipients warn that the dismantling of the agency, which serves as a counterpart to the National Institutes of Health, will ultimately curtail American scientific innovation.
“I worry about losing that next generation of researchers just because everything’s so uncertain and there’s just a lot of frustration,” Sarah Spreitzer, the assistant vice president and chief of staff of government relations at the American Council on Education, told The Hill.
The NSF’s focus on contributing to “early-stage” or “basic” science, has led to major technological breakthroughs, including the MRI machine, the GPS and artificial intelligence. It’s also funded projects that have advanced the internet, the cellphone, mRNA vaccines and companies like Google.
Trump’s 2027 budget request, released last week, seeks to cut NSF funding by more than 50 percent.
Although Congress eventually passed an almost full NSF budget for 2026, despite Trump also pushing to cut funding in half last year, former leaders and experts in the field are still sounding the alarm over the future of the “crown jewel” of American scientific research and innovation as grant funding stalls and staffing declines.
Read more in a full report at The Hill.com
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Tim Cook stepping down as Apple chief
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Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after nearly 15 years leading the groundbreaking tech company, it announced Monday. He will become the executive chair of the board of directors, while John Ternus, who serves senior vice president of hardware engineering, will take over the role of CEO in September, according to a press release. “It has been the greatest privilege of my life to be the CEO of Apple and to have been trusted …
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Trump-branded data center project CEO departs
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The head of Fermi America, the company building a large-scale data center campus in Texas named after President Trump, has resigned from his current role amid a broader reshuffling of the firm’s leadership. Fermi co-founder and CEO Toby Neugebauer stepped down Friday, according to a securities filing. The Dallas billionaire remains a member of the company’s board of directors, a press release said Monday. The company also announced …
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Live Nation settles DC lawsuit for $9.9M
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Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, has agreed to pay $9.9 million to settle a lawsuit with the District of Columbia over deceptive ticket pricing practices, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced Monday. The settlement follows an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) into allegations that Live Nation mislead customers about ticket prices, charged “deceptive fees” and used …
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French prosecutors summon Elon Musk over allegations of child abuse images and deepfakes on X
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PARIS (AP) — Elon Musk has been summoned to Paris on Monday, where investigators are looking into allegations of misconduct related to the social media platform X, including the spread of child sexual abuse material and deepfake content. The world’s richest man and Linda Yaccarino — the former CEO of X — have been summoned for “voluntary interviews,” while other employees of the platform are scheduled to be heard as witnesses …
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DOJ won’t contribute to France’s probe of Musk’s X: Report
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The Justice Department (DOJ) has informed French authorities that it will not contribute to an investigation into billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The Journal reported that the DOJ’s Office of International Affairs accused authorities of attempting to use the criminal legal system in France to regulate a “public square for the free expression of ideas and opinions …
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