Meta, AI entrepreneurs, academics, and other charities and activists are criticizing the startup's plan to shed its ties to ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at bringing the nation’s independent agencies — including the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission — ...

The president says the move will increase “supervision” over independent agencies. His critics say it’s alarming.

A regulatory expert said the directive will likely be challenged in court, as Congress has largely shielded some of the ...

Conservative legal activist Ed Martin had conversations last year about potential targets for prosecution. He now has the power to bring cases.

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump distanced himself from the conservative governing plan Project 2025. But it’s ...

Universities, now slated to face sweeping cuts in agency grants that cover these overhead costs, say the policy will destroy ongoing and future biomedical science.

The Federal Trade Commission enforces antitrust law. And the Federal Election Commission ... of the White House for good reason,” Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, said in a ...

Additionally, the order requires agencies to follow Trump's and the Attorney General's interpretation ... Public Citizen co-president Robert Weissman added that the order would make the agencies ...