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Accusations of plagiarism appear to be the newest weapon in the raging battle over the leadership and direction of elite universities.For weeks, Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager, has campaigned on...

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether former President Donald J. Trump is ineligible for Colorado’s Republican primary ballot because he had engaged in insurrection in his efforts to overturn...

Former President Donald J. Trump will return to Iowa on Friday for the first time this year, and will hold four campaign rallies in two days there as he looks to cement...

As the yearslong process to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill continues, Americans can now buy coins bearing her portrait.The U.S. Mint announced on Wednesday that three new commemorative Tubman coins...

John Anthony Castro, a 40-year-old Texan, long-shot Republican presidential candidate and the most prolific challenger of Donald J. Trump’s eligibility to be president, has gone to court in at least 27 states...

The police in Perry, Iowa, are investigating a shooting at a high school, according to the Dallas County Sheriff.Emergency responders arrived at Perry High School, about 40 miles northwest of Des Moines,...

House Republicans threatened on Wednesday to starve the entire federal government of funding if President Biden and Democrats fail to institute a crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border to choke off the flow...

A grand jury in Ohio is expected to decide Wednesday whether to indict a woman who miscarried a nonviable fetus at home and has been charged with abuse of a corpse in...

The resignation of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, on Tuesday followed a lengthening catalog of plagiarism allegations that appeared to steadily sap her support among the university’s faculty, students and alumni. But for...

The resignation of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, on Tuesday followed a lengthening catalog of plagiarism allegations that appeared to steadily sap her support among the university’s faculty, students and alumni. But for...