Dan Keating

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In his presidential campaign last year, Donald Trump vowed to supercharge U.S. scientific research efforts, pledging to “unleash the power of American innovation” to combat cancer, Alzheimer’s and other diseases. But Trump has instead unleashed cuts and chaos that are paralyzing ongoing research, prompting layoffs and threatening America’s perch as a global scientific leader, researchers and scientists warn.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Dan Keating |Nick Mourtoupalas |Hannah Dormido |Aaron Blake |Maegan Vazquez |Justine McDaniel | +4 more

Republicans applauded an address by President Donald Trump to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night in which he touted “swift and unrelenting action” in the six weeks since he returned to the White House. But the 100-minute speech was widely panned by Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York), who called it “one of the most divisive presidential addresses in American history.” Trump has no public events scheduled Tuesday.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Dan Keating |Nick Mourtoupalas |Hannah Dormido

Speaking about contemporary subjects and describing his opponents in harsh terms, President Donald Trump used more than two dozen words Tuesday night that had never been spoken in a State of the Union or similar address to Congress. The president sketched rivals as “left-wing,” “weaponizing,” “lunatics,” “ideologues,” and in a dig at Sen.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Desmond Butler |Trisha Thadani |Emmanuel Martinez |Aaron Gregg |Luis Melgar |Jonathan O'Connell | +1 more

Elon Musk and his cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service team have been on a mission to trim government largesse. Yet Musk is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the taxpayers’ coffers. Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Washington Post analysis has found, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person. The payments stretch back more than 20 years.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Desmond Butler |Trisha Thadani |Emmanuel Martinez |Aaron Gregg |Luis Melgar |Jonathan O'Connell | +1 more

11 hours agoGerman startup Proxima Fusion — whose team includes engineers from MIT, Google, SpaceX, and McLaren — has unveiled a fusion energy reactor design it believes offers the quickest route to commercially viable fusion power. Dubbed Stellaris, the machine is a quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarator with …