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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is pausing funding to the University of Maine System (UMS), a network of eight public colleges in the state, according to UMS officials. The pause is in response to the state’s recent refusal to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep transgender athletes out of women’s sports. The pause in funding comes as the USDA reviews potential Title IX and Title VI violations by the universities, amid the state’s recent refusal to comply with Trump’s executive order to keep transgender athletes out of women’s sports. Trump reaffirmed his intent to punish states that continue…

Travelers who claim to be loyal customers of Southwest are sounding off after the airline announced changes Tuesday to its popular passenger perk.The Texas-based carrier revealed several changes are being made in an effort to drive revenue growth and return to profitability shareholders expect, FOX Business reported.These changes will include an adjustment to its checked bag policy, which allows all passengers to check two bags for free. Southwest has not yet announced how much travelers will be charged, though the fee for a third checked bag is listed at $150 on southwest.com.DARING AIRPORT TREND HAS TRAVELERS ARRIVING AT GATE 15…

CNN  —  Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been “forcibly taken” onto a plane headed for The Hague, his daughter said on Tuesday, hours after his dramatic arrest on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant over a brutal, years-long anti-drugs crackdown that left thousands of his citizens dead. Duterte was placed on a flight late on Tuesday, his daughter and local outlet The Philippine Star reported. “They are taking him out on a plane by force without considering his health conditions,” Veronica Duterte wrote on Instagram. Reuters also reported that Duterte had boarded a plane. In a separate statement to…

CNN  —  The US Education Department is cutting nearly 50% of its workforce, according to senior agency officials, as President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating the agency altogether. Hundreds will be laid off starting Tuesday evening, in addition to those who took voluntary “buyouts.” Those actions would cut the department’s workforce of about 4,100 in half. “Today’s reduction in force reflects the Department of Education’s commitment to efficiency, accountability, and ensuring that resources are directed where they matter most: to students, parents, and teachers,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement. “I appreciate the work of the dedicated public…

Washington CNN  —  The Trump administration’s dizzying back-and-forth on tariffs is paralyzing America’s small businesses as they grow worried about the US economy’s future. The National Federation of Independent Business’ Uncertainty Index climbed in February to its second-highest reading on record, going back to 1973, according to the group’s latest survey released Tuesday. In February, the share of respondents who believe it is a good time to expand saw its biggest monthly decline since April 2020. “Uncertainty is high and rising on Main Street, and for many reasons,” Bill Dunkelberg, the NFIB’s chief economist, said in a release. “Confidence that…

CNN  —  The latest snapshot of job openings in the US shows that there were 7.74 million available positions at the end of January, signaling renewed optimism from US employers to start the year. The number of job openings rose from December’s downwardly revised total of 7.51 million, according to the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Although backward-looking, the report provides a critical baseline for US labor market activity — job openings, hires, quits and separations such as layoffs — before President Donald Trump’s sweeping policy actions kicked into higher…

New York CNN  —  In 2021, Boston began requiring real estate developers to consider how their projects could hurt residents historically discriminated against in housing and take steps to reduce those impacts. In creating its zoning ordinance, Boston relied on an underused mandate in the 1968 Fair Housing Act — one that the Obama administration put teeth into for the first time in decades. “Without the Obama rule, we would have been left with the same flowery language that had been dormant for 50 years,” said Massachusetts State Senator Lydia Edwards, then a Boston city councilor. “The point of rules…

Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he ruptured his left Achilles tendon.”As I began to ramp up my own training and practice at home, I felt a sharp pain in my left Achilles, which was deemed to be ruptured,” Woods announced on social media. Woods said he underwent the surgery Tuesday, it “went smoothly” and “we expect a full recovery.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Tiger Woods of the U.S. on the third hole during the final round. (Reuters/Brian Snyder/File Photo)”I am back home now and plan to focus on my recovery and rehab, thank you for all the support.”Woods…

Ireland is the sixth largest investor in the U.S. and hopes to strengthen the partnership under the Trump administration. When Micheál Martin – Ireland’s taoiseach, or prime minister – visits the White House on Wednesday, geopolitics will likely be discussed, but so may the business benefits that flow both ways between the countries. “It’s a relationship that goes both ways,” Michael Lohan, CEO of IDA Ireland, the country’s agency that promotes foreign investment, told FOX Business ahead of the event. “If we look at the enterprise, the economics of the relationship, Ireland is a small open economy. We benefit from…

PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic – A 20-year-old college student was last captured on surveillance footage gallivanting with friends during their spring break trip at a resort in the Dominican Republic before she mysteriously vanished.Sudiksha Konanki, a junior pre-med student at the University of Pittsburgh, was last seen on surveillance camera with five other people entering the beach at the Riu República Hotel in Punta Cana after 4:15 a.m. Thursday, the Dominican National Police said in a statement.Surveillance video, obtained by Noticias SIN, captured the group striding towards the beach at the five-star resort.The footage is the last time authorities tracked…