The U.S. Department of Education cut $22.6 million in remaining COVID-era funding to Kansas that educators planned to use on pandemic learning loss.

Financial markets around the world are reeling following President Donald Trump’s latest and most severe volley of tariffs, and the U.S. stock market is taking the worst of it so far.

State Superintendent Mo Green says the loss of the money “threatens the financial integrity” of schools in Halifax, Lenoir, Richmond and Robeson counties.

Democratic AGs are suing the Trump administration over "unlawful" cuts to public health agency grants to their states that were earmarked during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Overnight, US markets tumbled with NASDAQ Composite Index slipping 1050.44 pts or 5.97% to 16,550 and S&P 500 index ending 274 points lower at 5,396.

The move comes amid HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to force out the top official responsible for reviewing such vaccines, Dr. Peter Marks, and put his deputy Julie Tierney on administrative leave.

Twenty Massachusetts districts were affected but two account for the majority of the unspent funds: Springfield, with $47.4 million remaining, and New Bedford, with $15.6 million.

President Donald Trump said recently that he wants the 2019 Kansas City Chiefs to come to the White House after COVID-19 kept them from making the trip.