The CDC was instrumental in eradicating smallpox, identifying the causes of HIV and encouraging Americans to get the COVID-19 ...

Thousands of federal government employees have been shown the door in the first month of Trump’s administration.

The Agriculture Department is scrambling to rehire several workers it fired as part of President Donald Trump's broad cuts.

Eight people were laid off from Acadia National Park, cutting the popular tourist attraction's year-round staff by about 10%.

Trump signed an executive order Tuesday seeking a significant reduction in the size of the government. It instructs heads of ...

Maryland U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen is set to join deozens in a rallyon Wednesday at the Department of Health and Human ...

Many of those terminated worked on issues critical to consumers, from improving health care to regulating food packaging to ...

The federal agency that funds science research says the staff reduction came in response to a White House directive.

With federal support, universities produce world-changing discoveries and the next generation of exquisitely well-trained ...

Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.

Former CDC Director Tom Frieden warns that cutting the Public Health Associate Program and Laboratory Leadership Service ...