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On the surface, the scene on Columbia University’s campus appeared to have returned to normal after a spring semester rocked by pro-Palestinian encampments and police crackdowns. Students ate lunch on green lawns last week and tapped a volleyball back and forth under sunny skies. But, “like a horror film,” said …

Without even entering Grand Central Terminal’s soaring main hall on one Thursday evening in July, Nerdeen Kiswani and her pro-Palestinian protest group, Within Our Lifetime, managed to shut it down. All it took was a flier, posted online, calling on her followers to meet by the iconic clock in the …

When the education superintendent of Oklahoma, Ryan Walters, ordered this year that every public school classroom in the state must have a Bible in the classroom, he didn’t mention any special requirements. But bid specifications for the Bibles, released this week, contain several narrowly drawn and unusual details. They must, …

More than seven decades ago, the S.S. United States — a ship bigger than the Titanic — made its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, breaking the trans-Atlantic speed record. The ocean liner, which once transported heads of state and members of the Hollywood elite from New York City to …

In a Tuesday vice-presidential debate studded with surprising points of agreement between two starkly different candidates, an extended discussion of child care stood out. Over the past three years, Congressional Republicans, with the help of one key moderate Democrat, essentially killed President Biden’s attempts to create a national affordable child-care …

Raymond Sewer said he had good reason to believe that the California Institute of Technology would be deeply involved in the cloud computing “boot camp.” Caltech’s website touted the online program, and the school’s orange logo appeared on the promised certificates of completion. “I was just like, ‘Ah, man, this …

Earlier this month, a detective knocked on Shavon Harvey’s door, in suburban Ohio, to ask about her son. The son had sent a Snapchat message from her phone to his friends, saying there would be shootings at several schools nearby. She rushed to the police station, where her son was …

Brandeis University said on Wednesday that its president of eight years, Ronald D. Liebowitz, will step down. The announcement by the university’s board of trustees followed a vote of no confidence in Dr. Liebowitz by the faculty, which accused him of “damaging errors in judgment and poor leadership.” In taking …

After months of tumult on American college campuses, relative stability in one realm returned on Tuesday, when U.S. News & World Report published its oft-disparaged but nevertheless closely watched rankings. Many top schools held the same, or similar, spots they had a year ago. Among national universities, Princeton was ranked …

An independent review ordered by Gov. Kathy Hochul has found that the City University of New York needs to “significantly” overhaul and update its policies in order to handle the levels of antisemitism and discrimination that exist on its campuses. CUNY campuses have been a center of pro-Palestinian activism for …