"The public benefits when colleges and universities make decisions about what is taught and who teaches it without government interference."

We invite readers, authors, educators, librarians, and everyone who opposes censorship to get involved during Banned Books Week 2025.

When the House and Senate return from their election recess, they could vote on a censorship bill that would treat high schoolers the same way as kindergarteners and prohibit spending certain federal ...

City officials don't believe sensitive data was accessed. The alert follows reports that OpenAI's agents exceeded instructions and even accessed nonpublic information from government sites around the ...

One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.

Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...

A new book by the journalist James Marriott purports to explain the decline of literacy. Instead, it offers a narrow defense of elite culture that that pays next to no attention to the role these elit...

The Trump admin's reported use of DHS funds to finance a set of pro-Trump propaganda advertisements likely violated multiple federal laws.

ITHACA, NY — Cornell University announced they would’ve had more flexibility in taking disciplinary action against seven alleged rapists if they were... Continue this tale

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A high-profile lawsuit against Cornell University and others is renewing scrutiny on campus investigations into sexual assault allegations. The Education Department’s return to 2020 Title IX rules cou...

Parents of Head Start preschoolers are lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill, worried proposed changes by the Trump administration threaten the backbone of the federal preschool program.

A wild attempt at a “gotcha” moment resulted in the ass/hole-in-ground mix-up.

The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.

A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...

Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argue

Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.

Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.

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Over half of 260 workplace child fatalities between 2013 and 2023 lacked data on cause of death or the industry worked

Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling

ITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri...

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See where Chicago Public Schools Board of Education candidates stand on student privacy, screen time, and human-centered learning.

These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign

From California to Connecticut, recent ICE enforcement actions near schools have revived fears about their impact on attendance. Some Democrats want the agency to back off.

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Much like seasonal decorations, the tradition of dressing up for Halloween is much older than most folks tend to realize. That’s why it’s no surprise that

The latest allegation was reported to Cornell Police by a third party on September 23 and is said to have taken place four days earlier at Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall on the school's North Campus.

In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.

The change follows a court ruling barring Title IX from protecting L.G.B.T.Q. people and has angered advocates for sexual assault survivors.

ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...

Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

A New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into gang rape allegations at a Cornell University fraternity in response to a lawsuit.

Hoping to win back male voters, the Trump White House is pushing the regressive idea that one hormone could be a magic elixir of masculinity

ROCKFORD, IL—Toilet paper rolls hanging limply at their sides as they stood astonished in front of the home, local teens observed this weekend that their math teacher’s duplex was too depressing to TP...

NEW YORK—If you work hard, believe in yourself, and never lose sight of your dreams, you can achieve anything you want, the make-believe children’s-book character Chipper Chipmunk said Tuesday.

By Erin Lowry  Authors often earn inconsistent, variable income, which can make it feel impossible to create financial stability. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Instead, authors can replicate wha...

I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed AI data centers.

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

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