Fourteen months after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the university on Thursday reported sharp declines in enrollment of new Black and Hispanic students compared with a year ago. Last fall, Black students accounted for 10.5 percent of new enrollees at U.N.C., and Hispanic students…
Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky sharply disagreed with a decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom of California to host Steve Bannon, one of the architects of the MAGA movement, on Mr. Newsom’s new podcast this week, saying Mr. Bannon’s voice should not be elevated “on any platform ever, anywhere.” Mr. Beshear, a Democrat who was vetted…
Anne Kaufman Schneider, who shepherded the plays of her father, George S. Kaufman, a titan of 20th-century American theatrical wit, into the 21st century with an acerbic sagacity all her own, died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan. She was 99. Her executor, Laurence Maslon, confirmed her death. “Headstrong girls are difficult,” Ms. Kaufman…
The 50 or so pro-Palestinian demonstrators picketing outside Columbia University’s main gates on the first day of the semester urged students to boycott classes and handed out fliers accusing Columbia of being complicit in genocide. But the lines to enter campus stretched longer than the picket line. Inside the gates, students lounged in the sun…
A federal judge placed a temporary hold on another component of President Biden’s student debt relief plan on Thursday, siding with a coalition of seven Republican states that filed a lawsuit to halt the program on Tuesday. The ruling comes as yet another blow to the president’s student debt relief agenda after the Supreme Court…
For more than a quarter of a century, the death toll in the Columbine High School mass shooting, a statistic intertwined with the gun violence epidemic in the United States, stood at 13 victims. But another name has now been added to the list: Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was a student at the time and…
A federal appeals court ruled this week against a Florida couple who had sued officials in their child’s school district for disregarding their wishes and excluding them from discussions about the child’s gender identity. The ruling adds to a complicated legal landscape concerning minors and gender identity. While Republican lawmakers across the country have sought…
The world’s most widely followed stock-market benchmark slid into a correction on Thursday, a drop that underscores how the two-year-long bull market is running out of steam in the early days of the Trump administration. The move stems from investors’ growing pessimism about the whipsawing policy pronouncements from Washington over the past few weeks. On-again,…
For the second time this week, President Trump has threatened to disrupt trade with a close ally for retaliating in a trade war that he started — a tactic that could lead to compromise, or to economic spats that spiral further out of control. On Thursday morning, Mr. Trump tried to cow the European Union…
Johns Hopkins University, one of the country’s leading centers of scientific research, said on Thursday that it would eliminate more than 2,000 workers in the United States and abroad because of the Trump administration’s steep cuts, primarily to international aid programs. The layoffs, the most in the university’s history, will involve 247 domestic workers for…
