Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson Spar Over Affirmative Action Ruling
In an extraordinary exchange that played out among the pages of a landmark decision by the Supreme Court declaring race-conscious admissions at colleges and universities...
Biden’s Iran Envoy Is Placed on Leave Amid Security Clearance Review
The State Department placed President Biden’s envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, on unpaid leave on Thursday amid a review of his security clearance. “I have...
House Republicans Summon Officials to Testify About Hunter Biden Inquiry
Why It Matters Republicans, who have repeatedly tried to link the president to his son’s legal troubles but have yet to produce proof to back...
Historians Criticize Moms for Liberty Event at Museum in Philadelphia
In an interview, the museum’s president and chief executive, R. Scott Stephenson, called the museum, which opened in 2017, a place where people of “very...
NTSB Holds East Palestine Train Derailment Hearing
The National Transportation Safety Board released thousands of pages of documents on Thursday about the derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train in East Palestine,...
Hunter Biden Settles Child-Support Case
Hunter Biden settled a child-support dispute with Lunden Roberts, the mother of his fourth child, on Thursday, ending a yearslong saga that had become tinged...
The Senate’s Dianne Feinstein Question
When an ailing Senator Dianne Feinstein asked in April to be temporarily replaced on the Judiciary Committee so Democrats could continue the panel’s work without...
Affirmative Action Decision Raises Uncertainty for Students
The teenagers seeking shade as their tour groups crisscrossed leafy Harvard Yard on Thursday knew that they would be among the first students to feel...
Supreme Court Sides With Postal Carrier Who Refused to Work on Sabbath
The Supreme Court broadened protections on Thursday for religious workers in a case that involved a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service who refused to...
What Is Affirmative Action? What Is the Equal Protection Clause?
The Supreme Court’s majority ruling on Thursday that rejected race-conscious admissions at colleges cited, in part, the Equal Protection Clause. Here is a brief primer...
Biden Slams Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action
President Biden declared on Thursday that the Supreme Court “is not a normal court,” delivering an extraordinarily critical assessment of another branch of government shortly after the...
Investigation of Trump Documents Case Continues After His Indictment
Three weeks after former President Donald J. Trump was indicted on charges of illegally retaining national security records and obstructing the government’s efforts to reclaim...
A Tennessee City Had Quietly Celebrated Pride Before. 2023 Was Different
As dozens of cars snaked their way onto the grounds of a refurbished horse farm on a sweltering June afternoon in Franklin, Tenn., a few...
Republican Presidential Candidates Hail the Affirmative Action Decision
The Republicans running for president applauded the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday to strike down race-based affirmative action in college admissions, a policy that for...