At Harvard University, the rabbi at a menorah lighting ceremony was unusually blunt. “It pains me to have to say, sadly, that Jew hate and antisemitism is thriving on this campus,” Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi of Harvard Chabad said on Wednesday. “Twenty-six years I’ve given my life to this community,” he said. “I’ve never felt so…
The state auditor of Mississippi recently released an eight-page report suggesting that the state should invest more in college degree programs that could “improve the value they provide to both taxpayers and graduates.” That means state appropriations should focus more on engineering and business programs, said Shad White, the auditor, and less on liberal arts…
Indictments against former President Donald J. Trump and a personal aide, Walt Nauta, unsealed Friday reveal a host of embarrassing and potentially devastating new details about a yearlong investigation previously cloaked in secrecy. The 49-page indictment, containing 37 counts and seven separate charges against the former president and one against his aide, gave the clearest…
The ruling by a federal judge in Texas invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval 23 years ago of the abortion pill mifepristone has the potential to be the most consequential abortion decision since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June. But there are a lot of uncertainties — especially because a federal…
We usually think about our carbon footprint in terms of individual choices: How often do we fly? Do we eat meat? Have we purchased an electric car? But household emissions also often depend on factors that we have limited control over, such as the density of our neighborhoods, whether public transportation is available near us…
The deadline to register to vote in South Dakota has passed — it was May 23, according to the state’s election calendar. But if you’re heading to the polls today, here’s what to know: How to vote Need to check if you are registered? You can do that here. The polls close at 7 p.m.…