Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia’s role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities.Yale has not been directly targeted in the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education, but its president commissioned a report to understand public mistr

A Alan Blinder

Mounting Troubles at Ohio State University Lead to Frustration

Ohio State isn’t the only university in turmoil, but few others have faced so many issues lately. One lawmaker called the school “a national embarrassment.”Ohio State University recently named Ravi Bellamkonda, middle, as president. He’s the fourth person to hold the post in six years.

B Billy Witz

ICE Agent Charged With Assault in Rare State Prosecution

Minnesota prosecutors have spent weeks investigating the conduct of immigration agents who took part in an immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities.Thousands of federal agents were sent to the Twin Cities during a federal crackdown that started late last year.

S Sheila M. Eldred and Ernesto Londoño

The Costa Rican Mountain Town Offering Sanctuary to Families Deported by Trump

In a cloud forest village, a network of residents, foreigners and pacifist Quakers offered a precarious yet vital sanctuary for families expelled by the U.S. government.Vusala Yusifova and her daughter, Inji, asylum seekers from Azerbaijan, cut a client’s hair in Monteverde, Costa Rica.

E Emiliano Rodríguez Mega and César Rodríguez

Virginia Ex-Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Kills Wife and Self, Police Say

Mr. Fairfax, a Democrat, served as lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022. The couple’s children were home at the time, the police said, and their son called 911.Justin Fairfax in 2019. He served as Virginia’s lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022.

J Jacey Fortin and Campbell Robertson

Judge Again Halts Aboveground Construction on Trump Ballroom

A federal judge wrote that an exception he made for work on security features did not cover most of the construction on the larger ballroom project Trump has proposed.Cranes over the former East Wing location at the White House earlier this month.

Z Zach Montague

Senate Votes to Allow Mining Near Boundary Waters Wilderness

The move was a victory for a Chilean company that wants to build a copper and nickel mine, which environmentalists say could devastate fragile lakes and forests.The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is one of the largest and most visited expanses of federally protected lakes and forests in the U

M Maxine Joselow

Court Rejects Trump Administration Climate Lawsuit Against Hawaii

In a setback for federal efforts to thwart climate litigation, the judge ruled that the suit, which tried to block the state from suing oil companies, was too speculative.The U.S. District Court building in Honolulu. Senior Judge Helen Gillmor dismissed the Justice Department’s case with prejudice,

K Karen Zraick

Kendrick Lamar’s Protégé Baby Keem Tells the Whole Story, Warts and All

The 25-year-old rapper and producer knows he’s benefited from his cousin’s support. But the path to his autobiographical album, “Casino,” was his alone.It has taken Baby Keem until now to feel open and skilled enough to pound his own tale of hardship, perseverance and extraordinary opportunity into

R Ross Scarano and Clement Pascal

NYC to Spend $4 Billion From Pension Funds on Affordable Homes

The money could jump-start affordable housing projects across the metropolitan region.The $4 billion would help pay for mixed-income projects, conversions of offices to apartments, renovations to aging buildings and new middle-income apartments built by union workers.

M Mihir Zaveri

The Second Home Tax Has Failed Before. Could This Year Be Different?

Amid calls from the left to tax the rich, a tax proposal on multimillion-dollar second homes in New York City, backed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, seems to have better odds of passing than in years past.The proposed tax on second homes worth more than $5 million would yield “at least $500 million” in recur

G Grace Ashford and Jeffery C. Mays