August 01, 2023

While a looming ban on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in Texas higher education shouldn’t apply to academics or admissions, students and professors worry the botched hiring is a harbinger of things to come

Around 200 Haitians had marched in their nation’s capital to show their anger over the abduction of Alix Dorsainvil, who was working for the nonprofit Christian ministry El Roi Haiti when she and her daughter were seized Thursday

No cause of death was given, Gov. Phil Murphy’s office said in a statement from the Oliver family. Oliver was serving as acting governor while Murphy and his family are on vacation in Italy

The blaze was mapped at roughly 125 square miles on Tuesday, with 23% containment. That makes it the largest wildfire of the season in California

The camping areas, the event grounds and access roads, were in such poor condition that no more vehicles could be allowed onto the site

Users can compare prices and response times before picking a telemedicine provider from several options

Woods is joining as a sixth player director on the board. That’s the first time players have outnumbered independent directors on the board

The monkeys are endangered but are considered one of conservation’s rare success stories. That story seemed imperiled after an outbreak of yellow fever killed a third of the population

The World Health Organization says that climate change is aggravating the acute global upsurge of the disease that began in 2021

For both Vladimir Putin of Russia and Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, backing off Crimea is hardly an option

She was convicted of violating coronavirus restrictions, illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and sedition

Warner Bros. Japan said the Barbenheimer blitz is not part of an official company campaign, but said the reaction of its parent company’s Barbie account to memes combining images of the two movies lacked sensitivity

Over the past decade, Nancy and Maya Yamout have worked with more than 150 prisoners in a Beirut prison. Their experience sheds light on the causes that lead young people to enlist in extremist organizations

His decision not to enter the race comes just under two months after fellow Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher also declined to run

Five drivers alleged in complaints they couldn’t steer the vehicles at all. Seven more cited a loss of power steering that required increased steering effort

The online retailer Overstock.com said in late June that it was dumping its name online and it will become Bed & Bath & Beyond, which declared bankruptcy earlier this year

Sandra Cuevas, the local leader of Cuauhtémoc, attended a human trafficking summit hosted by the Conservative Political Action Conference

Job openings dropped to 9.6 million in June, the Labor Department said Tuesday, down slightly from the previous month but much lower than the 10.3 million in April

The city itself will be one of the brightest stars at the Paris Olympics. In the end, though, it will be the 10,500 athletes who will grab the spotlight once the festivities begin one year from Wednesday

In the biodiverse region of Guainía, a chemist, a zootechnician and a biologist convinced indigenous communities to replace coca crops with beehives

Described as hallucination, confabulation or just plain making things up, it’s now a problem for every business, organization and high school student trying to get a “generative AI” system to compose documents and get work done

They were the the first human cells to be successfully cloned and have been reproduced infinitely ever since, becoming a cornerstone of modern medicine

The predecessor of Pedro Castillo says in this interview with EL PAÍS that at the age of 78 he is working for a political renewal in his country

Hundreds of Haitians marched in the capital Monday to protest an abduction that’s another example of the worsening gang violence that has overtaken much of Port-au-Prince

Two military-ruled West African nations vowed Monday to prevent military intervention in Niger as the new military junta attempts to consolidate power after the coup

Review of the best new productions coming out this month on Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max and other platforms and networks