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Parts of Ventura County, Calif., were evacuated early Thursday as heavy rainfall inundated roads and homes in the region, local authorities said, while forecasters warned that the storm would continue to pummel...

After weeks of tumult at Harvard over the university’s response to the Israel-Hamas war and the leadership of its president, Claudine Gay, there was no shortage of interest in a faculty forum...

Claudine Gay has served as president of Harvard University only since July, but she has faced criticism on two fronts: her response to rising tensions on campus over the Israel-Gaza war, and...

There is only one place the Rev. Cecil Williams would think to spend Christmas Day: Glide Memorial Church in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.Williams could be called a founding father of...

Harvard University, in the face of mounting questions over possible plagiarism in the scholarly work of its president, Claudine Gay, said on Wednesday that it had found two additional instances of insufficient...

Justice Clarence Thomas pressed congressional lawmakers for a higher salary early in his tenure on the Supreme Court, threatening to resign and inspiring a campaign by Republican backers to meet his demands,...

Minnesota on Tuesday announced the winning design for its new state flag after a competition that was prompted by criticism that its current flag was offensive to Native Americans.The new design consists...

There was no warning when a line of vans showed up outside the largest nursing home in St. Louis Friday afternoon, workers at the home said.Older residents, some with dementia, were whisked...

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, was remembered Tuesday at a funeral service that nodded to her role on the court as a consensus builder.“Gracious and wise,...

Hundreds of thousands of people were facing power outages on Tuesday that could take days to restore after a sweeping costal storm battered the Northeast with whipping winds and soaking downpours.Nearly 600,000...