Since Inauguration Day, the Trump administration has repeatedly frozen and terminated research funding for seemingly political reasons. Federal agencies have ended grants for studies because they ...

President Donald Trump’s recent executive order, which requires a “senior appointee” or “designee” to approve only those federal grants that match the president’s policy priorities, federal agency ...

America’s scientific enterprise stands at a crossroads. Late Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order granting political appointees sweeping authority over the billions of dollars in ...

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any announcement of ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to speed the reclassification of marijuana from a Schedule I drug, a significant change that would not federally legalize ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jennifer Klein, director of the White House Gender Policy Council, on the new $12 billion initiative on women's health research, signed by President Biden on Monday.

Yesterday, on December 18, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order titled Increasing Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research (the EO), directing federal agencies to accelerate ...

An executive order signed Thursday by President Donald Trump would reclassify marijuana as a controlled substance with potential medical use — a designation that will make it easier for the Department ...

Marijuana would still not be legal; the change could allow more studies on cannabis and CBD. HealthDay News — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could make it easier for ...