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Earlier this week, some faculty members at the University of California, Los Angeles, had an emergency call with students who were active in the pro-Palestinian protests.“We just got a really clear message...

During the first two weeks of testimony in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the defense has often turned to three Ds to counter the prosecution’s arguments: denial, downplaying and deflecting responsibility.As the case...

Follow our live coverage of the college protests at U.C.L.A. and other universities.Protesters on college campuses have often cited the First Amendment as shelter for their tactics, whether they were simply waving...

The body of a fifth construction worker who died in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in March was found on Wednesday, officials said.The victim was identified as...

It was an example of a tolerant campus, where a burgeoning pro-Palestinian encampment might be left alone even as student protesters were arrested across the nation. Free speech would be supported as...

On the day that Florida began to enforce its six-week abortion ban, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a searing attack on former President Donald J. Trump in Jacksonville, calling the measure “another...

Mr. Valadao and Mr. Duarte declined interview requests, but Republican pollsters, strategists and consultants in California have said that demographic changes and new efforts to reach voters of color have shifted the...

A newly drawn congressional map in Louisiana was struck down on Tuesday by a panel of federal judges who found that the new boundaries, which form a second majority Black district in...

A powerful tornado shredded homes and killed at least one person in a small Kansas town on Tuesday, as severe weather threatened millions of people across the region.The tornado hit Westmoreland, a...

For most of his life, the Rev. Dr. Norman Kansfield seemed to personify the Reformed Church in America.To an extraordinary extent, he had grown up in the world of his church’s 17th-century...