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As Trump pushes ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda, Greenpeace verdict offers startling outlook for environmental activism

The executive order begins the process of dismantling the department, a process which requires congressional approval.

US President Donald Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at "eliminating" the Department of Education, a decades-old goal of the American right, which wants individual states to run schools free from the federal government.

US President Donald Trump demanded Thursday that courts stop blocking his agenda, edging closer to a constitutional showdown after a judge suggested the administration ignored an order to block summary deportations.

As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the Education Department, officials have suggested other agencies could take over its major responsibilities

A federal judge has ordered Columbia University and Barnard College to refrain from complying with a Republican-led House committee’s demand for student disciplinary records, at least until he holds a hearing next week on a request by Mahmoud Khalil and other students for a temporary restraining order

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has been added to the list of government agencies targeted by President Donald Trump

Doubts that whatever remains of department can govern student debt as one in four US adults under 40 has loans