Federal Funding

A small group of conservative religious colleges is defying the national trend of declining enrollment in higher education and crediting their missions, as well as their handling of COVID-19, for the bump.

Newly uncovered federal grant documents show that the U.S. Department of Education awarded roughly $2.5 million in taxpayer dollars to a Florida-based education program that trains future teachers and other professionals in, among other things, critical race theory.

Federal funding can once again go to entities that provide abritons, collowing ruling on Title X appeal by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Attorneys general from 16 states, led by Louisiana, filed a new legal challenge to COVID-19 vaccine mandates for U.S. healthcare workers claiming the mandates are illegal and obsolete, as the vaccines don’t work against Omicron, the dominant variant in the U.S.

Texas federal judge blocks a federal mask and vaccine mandate implemented by Biden administration for school-readiness program.

Several liberal municipalities from San Francisco to New York have moved to allow non-citizens to cast ballots in local elections.

As New York City becomes latest city to allow noncitizen voting in local elections, Sen. Rubio plans to file legislation banning funding to U.S. cities that do so.

A federal judge in Louisiana on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction halting President Biden’s national vaccine mandate for healthcare workers nationwide, and separately, a U.S. district judge in Kentucky issued a preliminary injunction blocking Biden’s mandate for federal contractors in three states.

Vaccine mandates are hurting hospitals, as a judge blocks Biden’s on healthcare workers.

A group of 19 Senate Republicans and 13 House Republicans helped Democrats and President Joe Biden pass their $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that includes no federal funding for infrastructure, such as a border wall, to reduce illegal immigration to the United States.