The Republican Main Street Partnership, a group that supports center-leaning House Republicans, plans to direct half a million dollars into a bid to defeat Representative Bob Good, a hard-right lawmaker from Virginia, making an unusual push to oust a sitting Republican member of Congress. The move is notable not just because the group, through its…
In 1957, the men’s basketball program at Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State University in Nashville had all of the makings of a great team: a coach dedicated to the fundamentals of the game and a fast-breaking offense that applied relentless full-court pressure. “We felt that if we stayed focused, there was nobody else who could…
Amid the turmoil over Harvard University’s president, Claudine Gay, the powerful board governing the university has been thrust into the spotlight. Despite the mounting scrutiny over Dr. Gay, the Harvard Corporation has so far shown support for her. The Harvard Corporation — formally known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College — consists of…
The man who shot and killed three faculty members on Wednesday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was himself a professor who had tried and failed to get several jobs at colleges in the state, the authorities said on Thursday. The gunman, Anthony Polito, 67, was living in a Las Vegas suburb and was…
More than three dozen members of Congress have already said they are planning to leave their seats, setting the stage for major turnover in the 2024 election. Few of the departures that have been announced are expected to alter the balance of power in the closely divided House, where the vast majority of seats are…
Two members of the U.S. military were killed on Tuesday from injuries sustained during a “weather-related incident” on Yonah Mountain in northern Georgia, the Army said in a statement. Three others service members were injured. The Army said that the deceased were soldiers with Fort Benning and The Maneuver Center of Excellence. Their names were…