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Trump’s Title IX investigative team takes aim at Washington state’s transgender policies

The Trump administration launched an investigation Wednesday into reports that Washington state has violated Title IX with its policies on transgender athletes and concealing students' gender-transition activities from parents.

April 30, 2025

‘I am sorry’: Searing antisemitism report spurs apology, reforms from Harvard president

Harvard took its lumps after the university's long-awaited report on campus antisemitism acknowledged the obvious: that school officials failed to protect Jewish students as they were targeted, bullied and ostracized after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack.

April 30, 2025

B.A. for $6K: BYU-Pathway pioneers three-year degree for four-figure price tag

For aspiring college students who don't think they have the time or money to earn a four-year degree, the Brigham Young University system has a deal for you.

April 30, 2025

Chicago Public Schools’ ‘Black Students Success Plan’ faces federal civil rights probe

The Trump administration's war on racially discriminatory DEI programs has reached the Chicago Public Schools, where a "success plan" designed specifically for Black students is under investigation.

April 29, 2025

Adams family values: Commission drums up support for John Adams memorial

Congress signed off on legislation to create a memorial to John Adams in 2001, but with each passing year, the Founding Father's prediction that "monuments will never be erected to me" looks more and more prescient.

April 29, 2025

Trump administration opens racial-discrimination probe into Harvard Law Review

The federal government launched a probe Monday into allegations of race-based discrimination at Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review, the latest salvo in the battle over wokeness between the Republican administration and the famously left-wing campus.

April 28, 2025

Women’s sports bills run up score as Georgia governor signs ‘Riley Gaines Act’

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation Monday barring males from female scholastic sports starting in sixth grade, joining a majority of states requiring students to compete based on sex at birth.

April 28, 2025

Trump administration tells Penn to cancel trans athlete’s swimming records or face DOJ referral

The University of Pennsylvania must erase transgender swimmer Lia Thomas from its women's record books or risk federal charges under a resolution agreement proposed Monday by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

April 28, 2025

Maine lawmaker takes state House censure over transgender athlete to U.S. Supreme Court

A Maine state legislator who was barred from the House floor over a social media post about a transgender athlete in girls' sports has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved.

April 28, 2025

Abortion pills 22 times more dangerous than billed on warning label, study finds

A largest-of-its-kind study found that more than 10% of women who terminate their pregnancies with abortion pills experience serious health problems.

April 28, 2025

Team Trump jumps into Indian mascot battle by investigating New York’s ban

The New York Board of Education sought to eliminate "culturally abusive" stereotypes by nixing American Indian mascots in schools, but as far as the Trump administration is concerned, the ban itself may be discriminatory.

April 26, 2025

DOJ rejects immunity for U.N. Palestinian relief agency in boost for Oct. 7 families’ lawsuit

President Trump wasted no time defunding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, but it turns out his administration wasn't finished.

April 26, 2025

Trump administration opens foreign-funding investigation into Berkeley

The Department of Education has opened an investigation into whether the University of California, Berkeley, failed to disclose the extent of its international funding, as the Trump administration trains its sights on foreign dollars flowing into U.S. higher education.

April 25, 2025

Biden official who targeted pro-life protesters hired by university to to teach civil rights law

Students who harbor qualms about abortion may want to avoid Kristen Clarke's class at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

April 24, 2025

Neighbors win court battle against home-based abortion clinic

An abortion clinic operating in a residential neighborhood in Illinois lost its legal fight with neighbors after a state court reversed the facility's zoning approval.

April 23, 2025

ADL: Antisemitic incidents hit record high in U.S. as post-Oct. 7 climate fuels harassment

The number of U.S. antisemitic incidents set a record last year as reports of assault, harassment and vandalism continued to surge in the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israeli civilians.

April 22, 2025

Student loan defaults headed to debt collection for first time in five years

The federal government plans to resume involuntary collection efforts on millions of defaulted federal student loans after a five-year lapse amid concerns that the program is headed toward a "fiscal cliff."

April 21, 2025

Rep. Stefanik calls for federal probe into N.Y. school board defying Trump’s trans-athlete order

The Saratoga Springs City School District in upstate New York is standing behind biological males in girls' sports, and Rep. Elise Stefanik has a problem with that.

April 21, 2025

Federal judge rules against Maine Rep. Laurel Libby in transgender-athlete flap

A federal judge ruled against a Maine state lawmaker who was censured by the state House for a viral post drawing attention to a male-born high school athlete who won a girls' state track competition.

April 18, 2025

Biden dogged by protesters, gaffes, ice cream fail at private Harvard event

Former President Joseph R. Biden's under-the-radar visit to Harvard University might not have gone as well as expected, thanks to protesters, gaffes, and an ice cream situation.

April 17, 2025