Independent senator Michael ­McDowell has said he would consider running in the presidential election if a party asked him to ...

OPINION While President Trump’s efforts to force out tens of thousands of civilian federal workers and to dismantle entire ...

Hillsboro celebrated International Women’s Day with a decidedly local flair, a wealth of information and a capacity crowd ...

For now, Australia’s democracy has Peter Dutton as the main voice of opposition. America’s system allows for no such powerful voice.

The Trump administration had already been whittling the agency’s staff, though buyout offers and the termination of probationary employees. After Tuesday’s layoffs, the Education Department’s staff ...

The Department of Education announced it was firing over 1,300 workers, slashing staff in half as part of Trump's aim to ...

Three state governors, all former educators, derided the decision to terminate nearly half the federal agency's workforce.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday backed his administration's efforts to lay off about half of the Education Department ...

Shuttering the agency is unlikely as it would require congressional approval and some Democratic votes to break the Senate ...

President Donald Trump has said he wants his new education chief, Linda McMahon, to “put herself out of a job” and close the ...

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that a scholar argues any ‘lawfare’ against Nixon doesn’t absolve him of transgressions.