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 ...

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 ...

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 May 5, the Trump administration issued Executive Order 14292, “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research,” which effectively ends federal funding for “dangerous gain-of-function ...

SAN DIEGO — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to move the process along to reclassify cannabis from a Schedule One drug to a Schedule Three controlled substance, a move that could ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Institutes of Health — which terminated several Penn research grants in March 2025 — reinstated funding for three University research project grants in recent weeks. After receiving ...