Nathalie Baptiste

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Nathalie Baptiste

The entire board of the Fulbright program, which fosters international education through an exchange program, quit on Wednesday after accusing the Trump administration of illegal interference, according to a memo obtained by The New York Times. The program, which is administered by the U.S. State Department, awards scholarships to American researchers, professors and educators to go abroad.

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Nathalie Baptiste

When the Trump administration announced in April that it was dismissing the Department of Justice’s decades-long effort to desegregate the Plaquemines Parish School District in Louisiana, the state’s Republicans rejoiced. “For years, federal judges have imposed unnecessary requirements that have cost our schools and our children tens of millions of dollars,” Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said in a press release.

3 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Nathalie Baptiste

This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. After months of political bliss, it seems as if the president and the world’s richest man are ready to call it quits. Donald Trump and Elon Musk traded barbs on their respective social media websites on Thursday and into Friday, as social media users happily looked on. It was only a matter of time before Trump and Musk, who are not known for making and keeping allies, had a spectacular falling-out.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Nathalie Baptiste

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday against allowing Oklahoma’s first religious public charter school, in a case that has significant implications for religion in public life. The court ruled 4-4in Oklahoma State Charter School Board v. Drummond, after Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself. The unsigned ruling offered no opinion on the merits, saying only that Justice Barrett took no part in the decision. “The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court,” the ruling read in full.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Nathalie Baptiste

This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. The massive spending bill the House Republicans passed in the middle of the night on Thursday will have devastating consequences for people with kids — and the people who want to have them. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Trump-coined name given to the GOP’s budget, is a proposal that decimates what’s left of the safety net in order to give even more money to the richest people in America.