A worker with the Department of Environmental Protection was killed Saturday morning in a "large" explosion while working on a docked boat in the Hudson River, the agency and the FDNY said. The ...

Ever since President Donald Trump signed an executive order in September authorizing the Defense Department to go by the “secondary title” of War Department, the Pentagon has been working to change ...

Save for a temporary injection of funds from the Biden administration, Pennsylvania has allowed the state Department of Environmental Protection’s staffing to stagnate during the natural gas boom ...

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 153. In September 2025 President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Department of Defense to the 'Department of War', reverting ...

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The Trump administration is implementing its widely telegraphed plan to shutter the Education Department by transferring critical responsibilities to other federal agencies. Six department offices ...

A majority of the U.S. Department of Education’s funding for K-12 schools—more than $20 billion a year—will be administered instead by the U.S. Department of Labor under an interagency agreement the ...

Responsibilities for K-12 and college programs, among others, will be moved to other federal agencies. By Michael C. Bender The Trump administration announced on Tuesday an aggressive plan to continue ...

The Secretary of War plaques are installed at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Sept. 3, 2025. (DoW photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Aiko Bongolan) In early September 2025, President Donald ...

President Harry S. Truman signing the National Security Act Amendments of 1949, which converted the National Military Establishment into a new Department of Defense. (National Archives) During a White ...

Pentagon officials grappled Friday with the Herculean task of fulfilling President Donald Trump’s executive order to remold the enormous, global agency into the Department of War. Many expressed ...

Sara Cook is a White House producer and multi-platform reporter for CBS News. She has covered three presidential campaigns and the Obama, Biden, and Trump administrations. Senior White House and ...