The Department of Justice released transcripts and audio recordings of interviews with Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend.
Day: August 23, 2025
The effects of a rightwing campaign to remake American higher education are fueling fear and anxiety, but advocates say they have plans to fight back
Students and faculty heading back to US colleges and universities from summer break are returning to bruised institutions reeling from the Trump administration’s unprecedented campaign to bend higher education to its ideological will, and are bracing for more uncertainty ahead.
At the University of Utah, the Black student union has lost its funding and campus space – one of many student groups to face the brunt of Donald Trump’s anti-diversity measures. Indiana’s public universities have cut or merged more than 400 degree programs, about one-fifth of their academic offerings, while scores of other universities have made similar cuts as their budgets are on the line. At Harvard and Columbia, certain forms of criticism of Israel will now be punishable as antisemitism. And across the country, schools will see their international student population plummet after the administration erected a host of new barriers to students seeking to travel to the US.
As bikes and strollers fill Central Park, its managers want to push horse carriages out
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Mary Elizabeth Smith said she was served a tainted chicken wrap at Create in Astoria in 2023.
A Long Island man placed the winning bid on Rex Heuermann’s Vietnam-era Jeep just to sabotage the auction.
New Israeli strikes around Gaza kill 25 as famine announcement raises pressure
A Detroit Lions wide receiver has been named in trade speculation before the 2025 NFL season.
The dogs were in a horrific state. “I honestly just fell to my knees when I saw them,” shelter volunteer Susan Taylor told Newsweek.
Tributes have been pouring in for the YouTube oddity turned internet icon.