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What to Know as Trump Freezes Federal Funds for Harvard and Other Universities

admin24 April 2025

The showdown between the Trump administration and institutions of higher learning intensified on Tuesday, when President Trump threatened Harvard University’s tax-exempt status after the school refused to accept his administration’s demands on hiring ...

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Teachers Worry About Students Using A.I. But They Love It for Themselves.

admin24 April 2025

Educators are increasingly using generative A.I. in their own work, even as they express profound hesitation about the ethics of student use.

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Rubio Skipping Ukraine Talks as Zelensky Rebuffs U.S. on Crimea

admin24 April 2025

The decision by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to pull out of the meeting and an objection by Ukraine’s leader to a key U.S. proposal raised questions about the state of the negotiations.

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The Quiet Farewell Before Pope Francis’ Funeral

admin24 April 2025

Before mourners in their thousands gather in St. Peter’s Square to grieve, before leaders from around the world arrive to pay their respects, and long before cardinals cloister themselves to consider the future, the Vatican holds a small ceremony ...

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I Watched the Pope Visit the Forgotten and Convert the Skeptical

admin24 April 2025

I remember the people. Thousands of them, sometimes hundreds of thousands, pressed together in aging stadiums, lining the streets of one place or another. In the Mexican state of Chiapas, so many people crowded in a local stadium in 2016 that it ...

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Trump and Zelensky Are Among the Leaders Planning to Attend Francis’ Funeral

admin24 April 2025

Presidents, prime ministers and royalty are preparing to travel to Rome for Pope Francis’ funeral, which will be the most prominent gathering of world leaders since President Trump’s inauguration in January. The funeral on Saturday will cap almost a ...

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‘The Two Popes,’ ‘Conclave’ and Francis’ Autobiography: The Papacy in Recent Culture

admin24 April 2025

Catholicism, for better or worse, has produced some of the greatest art in human history: Soaring cathedrals, stunning paintings and endless writings about humanity itself. Now, as the world reacts to the death of Pope Francis on Monday at age 88 ...

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Lawsuit Aims to Broadly Halt Deportations of Foreign Students

admin24 April 2025

A lawsuit filed in New Hampshire late Friday aims to present a sweeping legal challenge to the Trump administration’s campaign targeting international students and academics. Lawyers asked a federal judge to certify a lawsuit brought by foreign ...

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Guns, Extreme Views and Chaotic Childhood Shaped Suspect in Florida State Shooting

admin24 April 2025

His biological mother said in an interview on Friday that she was bewildered by the attack, and had been against the presence of firearms in her son’s life.

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In Trump Attack on Harvard, Punishment Before Proof

admin24 April 2025

The legal underpinnings of the administration’s broadsides against universities and schools stretch precedents and cut corners.

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