The Senate on Thursday confirmed Brooke Rollins to be Agriculture secretary by a vote of 72-28, giving her the reins of a department trying to distribute $10 billion in recently appropriated farm ...

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced on Friday that the department has terminated nearly 80 contracts, including for a Brazilian forest and gender consultant and a Central American ...

Lawmakers are looking closely at Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s plan to create a state Department of Agriculture. Dunleavy issued an executive order proposing the new department in December. It would ...

Among the 50 states, only Alaska and Rhode Island lack a cabinet-level Department of Agriculture. Rhode Island is the only state with fewer farms than Alaska. In a pair of legislative hearings ...

Egg prices typically spike around Easter due to high holiday demand. And the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicted last month that egg prices were likely to go up 20% this year.

He did so expecting the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reimburse him $550,000 when he’s finished, as agreed in a contract through the Rural Energy for America Program. But Nolt, founder of ...

By Linda Qiu Reporting from Washington The Senate confirmed Brooke L. Rollins on Thursday to lead the Agriculture Department, putting her in charge of an agency responsible for promoting and ...

The Department of Education sent a “Dear Colleague” letter Friday threatening the federal funding of any academic institution that considers race in most aspects of student life. The letter ...

A plan being considered by the White House would direct the education secretary to dismantle the department as much as legally possible while asking Congress to abolish it completely. At her ...

The Justice Department on Friday moved to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the latest move in a legal saga that has led to the resignations of at least seven ...

University of Michigan law professor Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney and an MSNBC legal analyst, noted a couple of weeks ago that “it would be a bad look” for the Justice Department to ...

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department fired multiple immigration judges on Friday, according to two sources familiar with the decision and a statement from one of the judges on LinkedIn.