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The Transportation Department on Friday said it was terminating or withdrawing $679 million in federal funding for 12 projects around the country intended to support the development of offshore wind power, the latest of the Trump administration’s escalating attacks against the wind industry.

The funds, approved by the Biden administration, include $427 million awarded last year to upgrade a marine terminal in Humboldt County, Calif. The new terminal would be used to assemble and launch wind turbines capable of floating in the ocean, which the state of California had been planning to deploy to meet its renewable energy goals.

The list of targeted projects also includes $48 million for an offshore wind port on Staten Island, $39 million to upgrade a port near Norfolk, Va. and $20 million for a marine terminal in Paulsboro, N.J. Most of the projects were intended to be staging areas for the construction of giant wind turbines that would eventually be placed at sea.

“Wasteful wind projects are using resources that could otherwise go toward revitalizing America’s maritime industry,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. He said that, where possible, the funding would be redirected toward upgrading other ports.

Mr. Trump has been a vocal opponent of wind power for years, and on his first day in office, he issued a moratorium on federal approvals for new offshore wind projects.

In recent weeks, his administration has sharply increased its attacks on the wind industry, going so far as to order the halt of construction at Revolution Wind, a $6.2 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that was nearly finished. Officials in Rhode Island and Connecticut have assailed the move, saying there was no legal justification for blocking the order and that the move would threaten the reliability of the region’s electricity supply.

On Friday, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, a Democrat, said he had asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to block the Trump administration’s stop-work order.

“We’ve got billions of dollars in investment and a project on the finish line to deliver affordable, American-made, renewable energy right off the coast of Connecticut,” Mr. Tong said. “We’re notifying the court now that Trump’s irrational stop to Revolution Wind will jack up energy bills, hurt workers, and weaken our grid.”

The Trump administration has also signaled in a court filing that it plans to rescind federal approval for yet another wind farm, the Maryland Offshore Wind Project. That facility had not yet begun construction but would consist of up to 114 wind turbines off the coast of Ocean City, Md.

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Friday’s move is the latest in a series of escalating attacks by the Trump administration against the wind industry.Credit…Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press

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Safeguards keep fake ballots from being counted. Election officials regularly update voter lists. Voting machine software undergoes rigorous testing.

Telling voters such simple facts helps combat election misinformation, suggests a Science Advances study released on Friday. In the investigation, researchers performed messaging experiments with voters in the U.S. before the nation’s 2022 midterm elections and in Brazil after its presidential election that same year. With false claims of faked election results having figured into the January 6, 2021, mob assault on the U.S. Capitol and reelected U.S. president Donald Trump having made false claims about mail-in ballots and voting machines in August 2025, combating election falsehoods matters very much, the new study’s authors say.

“Around the world, we’ve seen attacks on election integrity, and it’s become clear that defending democracy requires debunking or effectively countering that misinformation,” says study co-author Brian Fogarty, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame. What he and his colleagues found most effective was “genuinely novel information,” he says—such as details on exactly how voting security is ensured at the polls and in the counting of votes.

“The facts actually matter,” says psychology professor Gordon Pennycook of Cornell University, who was not a co-author of the study. “This is a very strong set of experiments, and I think the conclusion is very important: the best way to help guard people against misinformation is to provide accurate countervailing information.”

While Pennycook and other outside experts applaud the experiments as excellent research, however, they question their relevance in real elections. In the U.S. and Brazil, these experts note, voters are immersed in misinformation from talk radio, television personalities, and, in the case of the U.S., even the country’s current president—and this fouls the information environment in which straightforward messages about election security can be delivered to them.

“We know people are misinformed. Can just one message in a sea of misinformation offset a diet of misinformation on social media,” and cable television, asks communications scholar Nathan Walter of Northwestern University, who was not part of the study. “Eating one protein shake doesn’t counter all the cheeseburgers you had.”

The study consisted of three experiments. The first two, which respectively included nearly 3,800 respondents in the U.S. and more than 2,900 in Brazil, tested attacks on voting integrity from political leaders of losing parties against “prebunking” information about how votes are secured that were preceded by warnings about conspiracy theories. As a control measure, some participants heard messages with information that was entirely unrelated to voting. Prebunking worked in both the U.S. and Brazil, and it was particularly effective among those most skeptical of election security and had a more lasting effect. Notably, the U.S. voting security information was taken from the (now deleted) “Rumor vs. Reality” section of the website of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency.

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Sure, summer isn’t technically over for a few more weeks — but school vacations, summer Fridays, and the lazy days of August? Those end at Labor Day, buddy, and tradition demands celebrating with one last bash. Spending as much time at the grill as possible is relatable end-of-summer behavior, and our Labor Day recipe roundup includes options for grilling nearly every course, with smoky salads and charred sides, delicious grilled meat and seafood, and even a pie baked over the coals. And of course, this is the time of year when peppers, tomatoes, corn, and okra are near-bursting, and berries, melons, and stone fruits are at their peak. We’ve also got dishes and drinks featuring enough late-season produce to tide you over (almost) until summer 2026.

 

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Credit:  Eva Kolenko / Food Styling by Carrie Purcell / Prop Styling by Nidia Cueva

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Where Things Stand

• Tariffs ruling: In a setback to President Trump’s global trade war, a federal appeals court on Friday found that many of his tariffs were issued illegally, upholding an earlier decision from a federal trade court. The appeals court found that the bedrock of the trade war — an international emergency powers law that permits the president to take broad trade action in response to economic emergencies — “does not authorize the tariffs imposed by the Executive Orders.” But the judges delayed the implementation of their order until October to grant the administration time to seek review by the Supreme Court, which would allow the duties to remain in place for now. Read more ›

• Foreign aid: The Trump administration has moved to cancel $4.9 billion for foreign aid programs, funds that Congress already approved, using an untested power to cut spending over lawmakers’ objections. Read more ›

• U.N. meeting: Palestinian officials may not be able to attend next month’s United Nations General Assembly because the United States will not issue visas to them, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday. The United States generally issues visas to allow foreign leaders to come to U.N. headquarters in New York, even those from countries under severe U.S. sanctions. The move by Mr. Rubio could be aimed at weakening discussion of Palestinian statehood. Read more ›

Aug. 29, 2025, 7:01 p.m. ET47 minutes ago

Ana Swanson

Richard Neal, the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, called the ruling “a victory for the rule of law, for the Constitution, and for American families who have paid the price for Donald Trump’s trade agenda.” He added: “Tariff authority rests with Congress. The Constitution is clear, and no president—Trump or anyone else—can invent powers they do not have.”

Aug. 29, 2025, 6:51 p.m. ET55 minutes ago

Ana Swanson

During President Trump’s first term, his advisers also had questions about whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which is typically used to issue foreign sanctions, could be used to levy broad tariffs. The first Trump administration used IEEPA sparingly, relying on other tools like Section 232 and Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 instead to issue tariffs on Chinese exports and steel. But Mr. Trump and his advisers have since taken a more expansive interpretation, concluding that an economic emergency could be declared based on almost anything.

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A banner of President Trump on a Department of Labor building in Washington, on Friday.Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times

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