timef 07/08/2025

The Bird Banding Laboratory has turned duck hunters into citizen scientists. What happens if it is defunded?

The president noted that U.S. negotiators remained open to offers from trading partners, suggesting that tariffs could be reduced by — or even after — the deadline on Aug. 1.

A partner at Sequoia, the venture capital giant drew criticism for calling the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York an “Islamist.”

Tokyo had expected smooth tariff negotiations but is experiencing whiplash, becoming a central target of President Trump’s trade frustrations.

Many countries thought they were negotiating in good faith. The White House renewed its “reciprocal” tariff plan anyway, giving countries until Aug. 1 to make offers.

The White House is planning to eliminate the board, a small agency that investigates chemical disasters to understand what went wrong.

On a road trip from New York to Los Angeles (and back), a writer found digital tools that helped her navigate and find a cornucopia of “weird attractions.”

A small company in northern Mexico had faced steep competition from China in making straps, plugs, fasteners, grommets, zip ties and clamps. Now, U.S. tariffs have driven a spike in his business.

The American Federation of Teachers said it would use the $23 million, including $500,000 from the A.I. start-up Anthropic, to create a national training center.

The country’s new president, in office for a little over a month, had just dispatched his senior deputies to Washington to try to work out a trade deal.

On the road with a 68,000-pound tractor-trailer that crisscrosses West Virginia, saving lives.

On the road with a 68,000-pound tractor-trailer that crisscrosses West Virginia, saving lives.

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s helical structure.

President Trump has told seven countries that they will face tariffs of at least 25 percent on Aug. 1 if they don’t reach agreements by then.

After Attorney General Pam Bondi promised big revelations for months, the Justice Department noted a lack of evidence for conspiracy theories, including a “client list” and a jailhouse murder.

Researchers and hatcheries are exploring new ways to protect shellfish in the Pacific Northwest, although Trump budget cuts may thwart their efforts.

The tariffs on some of America’s closest allies would go into effect Aug. 1, unless the countries reach some kind of trade agreement with the United States.

New restrictions on Covid shots run counter to scientific evidence, the groups said.