Ghosts of stadiums past haunt Chicago Bears quest for a new stadium deal

Past stadium fiascoes like Soldier Field and Rate Field have shown how not to build new stadiums, as the Chicago Bears seek ...
Town & Country

NPR Receives Its Largest Private Donation in Decades Amid Federal Funding Cuts

NPR announced this week that it has received $113 million in charitable donations, the largest sum the public media network has taken in since Joan Beverly Kroc, the widow of McDonald’s founder Ray ...
Forbes

OpenAI Valuation Reaches $852 Billion After Massive Funding Round

OpenAI raised $122 billion in its latest funding round, the artificial intelligence giant announced Tuesday, bringing its post-money valuation to $852 billion. OpenAI announced the funding round ...
Forbes

AI Funding Hit Record Levels And Founders Need To Pay Attention

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jodie Cook covers AI, marketing & LinkedIn for coaches & entrepreneurs AI startups raised over $200 billion in 2025, a 75% ...
The New York Times

OpenAI Adds Another $12 Billion to Latest Funding Round

The start-up has raised a total of $122 billion in a funding round that values the company at $730 billion. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco OpenAI said on Tuesday that it had raised an ...
Fox News

DHS shutdown breakthrough comes at cost for Republicans as funding fights nears end

Congress is one step closer to ending the Homeland Security shutdown after the Senate advanced a new, last-minute deal, but it came at the price of Republicans ceding ground, temporarily, to Senate ...
Business Insider

The 10 states most reliant on federal funding — and the 10 least

WalletHub ranked states based on the level of federal support they receive. Alaska and Kentucky were the two most federally dependent states, while New Jersey was the least. The report found that red ...
HousingWire

CrossCountry Mortgage to strengthen footprint with Summit M&A deal

Cleveland-based CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM) has struck a deal to acquire Summit Funding, broadening its geographic reach, the companies announced Wednesday. Financial terms of the transaction were not ...
Los Angeles Times

SoCal’s defense startups secure vital funding boost

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Congress passed legislation restoring federal funding deemed vital to Southern California’s defense startups, ...
The Conversation

Universities survived Trump’s 2025 funding freeze, but the money still isn’t flowing to researchers

Several prominent universities, including Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, made headlines in 2025 in a dizzying back-and-forth with the federal government. The Trump ...
Education Week

Federal Funding Disruptions for Schools Are Far From Over

Warning signs are piling up that schools could experience more funding turbulence in the coming months, even though Congress recently approved a federal budget with no major education cuts. The Trump ...
The Conversation

Public health needs steady budgets – and federal funding uncertainty causes real harms, even if the money is later restored

Since early 2025, several large federal health grants to states have been suspended and then restored after legal challenges. On Feb. 13, 2026, for example, the federal government moved to suspend ...