This week calls for some throwback thinking. If you can recall how Roman numerals work, you'll get at least one question ...

In 2019, he reprimanded employees for contradicting President Donald Trump’s inaccurate claim that a hurricane would strike ...

Craig McLean said many scientists "are worried about President Donald Trump's return to office — after he undermined science ...

That eventually drew criticism of Jacobs and his political higher-ups in a Department of Commerce inspector general's report ...

The nomination of Neil Jacobs to run NOAA highlights U.S. President Trump’s loyalty-over-expertise approach to leadership.

This week, staffers with Elon Musk’s DOGE operation entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The ensuing controversy, known as Sharpiegate, was a harbinger of the fact-optional, seat-of-his-pants approach to disaster management Trump would later apply to the Covid-19 pandemic, with ...

Trump last week nominated the scientist Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a vast organization within the Commerce Department that includes the National Weather ...

Jacobs is an atmospheric scientist who previously served as acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration during the first Trump administration.

Jacobs, who led the agency on an acting basis during Mr. Trump's first term, was reprimanded for ethics violations in what became known as "Sharpie-gate" — when the president held up a hurricane ...

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