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By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer Head Start centers across the U.S. have received nearly $1 billion less in federal money compared with this time last year — and a lag in funding this week has caused some preschool classrooms for low-income children to close. The federal government has distributed $1.6 billion for Head Start

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, MARK SHERMAN and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge’s ruling that the Trump administration appears to have willfully violated his order to turn around planes of migrants headed for El Salvador increases the prospect of officials being held in criminal contempt of court and potentially facing possible prosecution. U.S.

By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard University is spotlighting bare-knuckled politics and big dollar figures. But in the battle of the moment, it’s easy to lose sight of a decades-long alliance between the U.S. government and the nation’s most prominent universities, forged to

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice says staff from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency contacted them to assign a team to the organization and told them they planned to similarly install teams with all nonprofits receiving funds appropriated by Congress. Nick Turner, president of the

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at an “alarming rate,” promising on Wednesday to conduct exhaustive studies to identify any environmental factors that may cause the developmental disorder. His call comes the day after the Centers

By SEUNG MIN KIM and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Elise Stefanik, a member of House Republican leadership and onetime nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is considering a run for New York governor, according to a person close to her. The person was granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A real estate developer, whose relationship with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was at the center of the Republican’s historic impeachment trial in 2023 and a recently-ended federal corruption investigation, was sentenced Wednesday to five years’ supervised release and fined $1 million for lying to a

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An independent expert will review security at the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence after an intruder allegedly scaled a fence, eluded police, broke windows and entered the mansion, setting fire to two rooms before escaping. State police announced the third-party risk and vulnerability assessment of