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Workers this week were expected to being removing the towering Confederate Memorial from Arlington National Cemetery, displacing one of the country’s most prominent monuments to the Confederacy on public land.The removal of...

As long as the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade was the law of the land, conservatives complained that it had squelched the democratic process — that unelected men in black...

A federal jury in Washington ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani last week to pay $148 million in damages to two former Georgia election workers he defamed by spreading baseless claims that they tried...

New York City officials warned commuters to brace for disrupted travel conditions as a powerful storm was expected to batter the area with heavy winds and major flooding starting on Sunday and...

At the University of Pennsylvania, approval for the screening of a documentary critical of Israel was denied. At Brandeis University — which expressed a public commitment to free speech — a pro-Palestinian...

Richard Hunt, a prolific sculptor whose towering metalwork became a mainstay of American public art, and whose 70-year career drew the attention of presidents from Lyndon B. Johnson to Barack Obama, died...

In 1964, Paul G. Chevigny left a conventional job at a Wall Street law firm to volunteer for the Freedom Summer of civil rights activism in Mississippi.What he saw in the Deep...

Moms for Liberty, a national right-wing advocacy group, was born in Florida as a response to Covid-19 school closures and mask mandates. But it quickly became just as well known for pushing...

After reports of sexual abuse and forced enrollment in the military’s high school programs, lawmakers passed significant new reforms.

Former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey turned his fire on Friday from former President Donald J. Trump, his usual subject of attack, to his higher-polling Republican rivals for the nomination.Mr. Christie’s...