New Interior Department data shows a roughly 55 % increase in oil and gas drilling permits approved on public lands since President Donald Trump's return to the White House last January, a rise that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says is contributing to lower domestic energy costs and U.S. energy competitiveness abroad...

For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency has calculated the health benefits of reducing air pollution, using the cost estimates of avoided asthma attacks and premature deaths to justify clean-air rules. Not anymore. Under President Trump, the E.P.A. plans to stop tallying gains from the health benefits caused by curbing two of the most widespread deadly air pollutants, fine particulate matter and ozone, when regulating industry, according to internal agency emails and documents reviewed by The New York Times...

President Donald J. Trump's Great Healthcare Plan is a broad healthcare initiative that will slash prescription drug prices, reduce insurance premiums, hold big insurance companies accountable, and maximize price transparency in the American healthcare system. This plan will deliver money directly to the American people, not insurance companies, big pharma and special interest groups—putting patients over industry leaders' profits, just as he promised. The Great Healthcare Plan also builds on the successes of his first term by promoting competition, eliminating wasteful spending, and putting consumers back in control...

The Trump administration sent shockwaves through the U.S. mental health and drug addiction system late Tuesday, sending hundreds of termination letters, effective immediately, for federal grants supporting health services. Three sources said they believe total cuts to nonprofit groups, many providing street-level care to people experiencing addiction, homelessness and mental illness, could reach roughly $2 billion...

The Trump administration has re-emphasized its warnings to states over a widely used practice that involves children in foster care losing their Social Security benefit checks. In an interview with NPR, an assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Adams said that these benefits "might be the last resources that your deceased parents could leave behind for their children."...

U.S. President Donald Trump told Reuters that Ukraine - not Russia - is holding up a potential peace deal, rhetoric that stands in marked contrast to that of European allies, who have consistently argued Moscow has little interest in ending its war in Ukraine. In an exclusive interview in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to wrap up his nearly four-year-old invasion of Ukraine. Zelenskiy, the U.S. president said, was more reticent...

US President Donald Trump confirmed that Phase II of the Gaza peace plan has officially begun, and announced that he is backing "a newly appointed Palestinian Technocratic Government" in Gaza, he said in a Truth Social post on Thursday. "As Chairman of the Board of Peace, I am backing a newly appointed Palestinian Technocratic Government, the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, supported by the Board's High Representative, to govern Gaza during its transition," Trump said in the post...

The Education Department announced Thursday it will be moving some employees to the Department of Labor as it looks to integrate some postsecondary education and workforce development programs with the other agency. Starting next week, employees with the Higher Education Programs division of the department's Office of Postsecondary Education will head to the Labor Department to begin the transition of the programs...