But what is an executive order and how do they work? Two local political experts say the orders themselves are often straightforward, but their paths to becoming reality might not be.

Very often, an executive order requires a federal agency to write a report, undertake an investigation, or promulgate a new regulation. Those steps can often take months, and sometimes years. The ...

President Trump is taking aim at U.S. drug prices with an executive order geared toward forcing drug companies to match the lower prices paid in other developed countries. If drugmakers don't do ...

Harvard-affiliated researchers have begun receiving stop-work orders on contracts worth tens of millions of dollars less than one day after the Trump administration announced a $2.2 billion pause ...

A new executive order signed by President Donald Trump calls for infusing artificial intelligence throughout K-12 education. A major focus of that plan is training teachers on how to integrate AI ...

But what is an executive order and how do they work? Two local political experts say the orders themselves are often straightforward, but their paths to becoming reality might not be.