The NEA is cutting the grant program Challenge America which primarily supported small organizations that reached “historically underserved communities that have limited access to the arts relative to geography, ethnicity, economics, and/or disability.” Challenge America’s $10,000 grants funded a wide range of programs by arts groups across the country, from free or reduced prices for…

Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon AP’s reporter was blocked from attending an executive…

Ironically, Musk, whose own businesses have flourished in the spaces of science and technology, is leading the Department of Government Efficiency, which has reportedly hit both spheres especially hard: On Friday evening, the National Institutes of Health announced that it was drastically cutting grant provisions for roughly 2,500 recipients by capping “indirect funding” at 15%, all for…

America was already great before Donald Trump successfully entered its national politics. Compared to all other countries, we are enormously wealthy. Compared to other wealthy countries, we are a pluralist society with a great deal of diversity. In this new age of geopolitical competition, we retain the world’s preeminent military. And even in the highly…

We are in the midst of a political coup that, if successful, would forever change the nature of American government. It is not taking place in the streets. There is no martial law. It is taking place cubicle by cubicle in federal agencies and in the mundane automation of bureaucracy. The rationale is based on…

Capping these payments would ‘just grind our scientific complex to a halt,’ one researcher said In an announcement issued by the NIH Office of the Director, the agency noted that it has historically supported indirect costs — administrative, facility, and other expenses not directly linked to the goals of a scientific project — with funds…

As today’s story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of ‘The Com,’ an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration. And make no mistake: The Com is the English-language cybercriminal hacking equivalent of a violent street gang. KrebsOnSecurity has…

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s squad that’s criss-crossing US government agencies, was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing information with a competitor. A spokesperson for the Arizona-based hosting and data-security firm said Thursday: “I can confirm that Edward Coristine’s brief contract was terminated after the conclusion of an…

Elon Musk’s unceasing attempts to access the data and information systems of the federal government range so widely, and are so unprecedented and unpredictable, that government computing experts believe the effort has spun out of control. [The Atlantic] spoke with four federal-government IT professionals—all experienced contractors and civil servants who have built, modified, or maintained…

During an emotional all-hands meeting on Tuesday, the agency’s assistant director for engineering, Susan Margulies, told agency employees to expect between a quarter and a half of its staff to be laid off within the coming months, E&E News reported. On Thursday, two sources told Ars that the science agency should expect to see steep…