Administration officials and lawmakers say the move is to shore up national security threats, but university professors argue such cancellations represent targeted discrimination.

President Donald Trump claims the World Health Organization failed to investigate early reports of the coronavirus, while public health experts argue that stripping the agency of its funding endangers us all.

The president’s request for next year’s federal budget includes a 7 percent drop in funding for the National Institutes of Health and reductions for other science agencies.

A reinterpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 won’t punish oil and gas companies whose activities kill birds unintentionally, The New York Times reports.

In government agencies, 20 percent of high-level science appointments are vacant, The Washington Post reports.

Most of the panel’s members were appointed by the Trump administration.

The radiation oncologist and chief medical executive at MD Anderson Cancer Center has not worked in government previously.

The Department of Justice plans to require cheek swabs at the border, with the data then entered in a national criminal database.

Two panels devoted to reviewing/recommending policy on marine protected areas and invasive species were eliminated.