WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.

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Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor…

Congress created the EEOC to enforce civil rights laws in the workplace. The 61-year-old agency is about to stop collecting the data it has relied on to identify systemic discrimination.

The reinstatement by Ghent University of Nathan Cofnas – a key figure in the Jason Arday affair – followed pressure from Trump’s State Department

When educators restrict an AI model to a defined collection of trusted inputs, they can introduce students to academic materials in a flexible and interactive way. Here, Imran Khan shares five practical insights

Air conditioning is critical to protect against extreme heat, but new research suggests that more public resources are needed so New Orleans residents use it without fear of energy costs.

After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they quickly ignored the restriction. It has finally caught up with one state, with a federal court ruling against Virginia and reviving the Reconstruction-era promise.

Nathan Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign for making a transparently neoNazi video featuring the Governor, and has only doubled down on his white nationalism since.

A Black Republican who enthusiastically carries President Donald Trump’s MAGA banner — could become Florida's first Black governor.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration violated the constitutional rights of international students in seeking to deport them for their pro-Palestinian activism and criticism of Israe...

Members of the Johns Hopkins University AAUP respond to an interview with Ronald Daniels.

Thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI defied their instructions and took over a German website, according to research released Friday, amid fears that the dangers of artificial intelligenc...

Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.

If Republicans fail to hold onto the House or Senate in the 2026 midterms, Brynn Tannehill comes to the conclusion that they will reject the results

Elon Musk’s rocket company says it will fund marsh rebuilds and shoreline protection in Vermilion Parish beyond what regulators require.

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

The police chief of Senatobia, a Mississippi city where an officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in June, was fired Tuesday.

OpenAI previously paused some work on Astra due to safety concerns.

A standard medical test with racist origins is cutting off Black patients from needed treatments. Why do hospitals still use this harmful test today?

Pierre Damas Bel, 20, of Springfield, Ohio, expressed feeling “shame and humiliation” at having to wear an ankle monitor. The college student died by suicide days later.

As a kid growing up in Bushwick, Brooklyn Cynthia Malone was fascinated with monkeys, apes, and tropical forests.

College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.

Northern District of California Judge Noël Wise, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, sided with the Stanford Daily in its suit against Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

U.S. Secretary of Education National Call to Action (Compact 2.0) 1 Vanderbilt Declaration of Principles (6/29/2026) 2 Florida Presidents’ Joint System Response (8/18/2026) 2 UNC Letter (8/18/2026) 2 ...

If the Supreme Court accepts their reading, states could have substantially more freedom to run systematic purge program in the final weeks before federal elections — precisely when an erroneous…

Changing political district boundaries between the primary and general elections means some voters might not have had a say in their candidates.

SpaceX launched the $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope shortly after daybreak aboard a triple-the-fire-power Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center.

A new space telescope named Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with important contributions from NASA, is set to launch in July to explore why the