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The idea that every student should aim for a four-year college motivated a bipartisan movement for decades. Now even enthusiastic promoters of the idea are reconsidering it.

Uncertainty about how much money colleges and universities stand to lose has led some schools to reduce the number of doctoral students, in some cases reneging on offers.

Mr. Myrie, a Democratic state senator, would offer free seats to public school students from 3-K to 12th grade in a plan to make New York City more affordable for families.

Ms. Adams, the New York City Council speaker, is trying to position herself as a principled alternative to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Eric Adams.

Officials have suggested that the pause in weapons shipments and intelligence sharing could be relatively short-lived if Ukraine’s president bends to White House demands.

The Police Department said several demonstrators were taken into custody during the sit-in at the college’s main library.

A third dog that was found dead last week with the couple was an Australian Kelpie mix named Zinna, the boarder said.

In tense political times, can “The Great One” be both a Trump supporter and a beloved hero in Canada? Some want him to pick a side. (Preferably the one to the north.)

The city didn’t actually spread more salt than usual. But it may have seemed that way, according to the Sanitation Department, because there was less snow and rain.

As the Trump administration trims the federal work force, students and educators at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas fear for the future of a school that was already facing troubles.

In a speech to Congress in his first weeks in office, the president laid out his vision to remake U.S. policy on the military, trade, immigration and foreign aid.

The Florida scion of an anti-communist political family, he served in the House for 18 years at a time when Cuban Americans exerted peak influence on U.S. policies.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said that early reports suggested “extremely disturbing conduct” leading to the death of Messiah Nantwi, 22, in an upstate prison.

There was never any question that Mardi Gras would go forward after the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans. But some revelers felt at least a hint of trepidation.

The guilty plea came just as his murder trial was about to start, for an attack in a Chicago suburb in 2022 that killed seven people.

Thousands of corrections officers at dozens of prisons have been protesting working conditions in wildcat strikes across the state.

The justices will hear arguments in a $10 billion lawsuit by the Mexican government that claims gun makers are complicit in supplying drug cartels.

Elon Musk’s three-hour interview with “The Joe Rogan Experience” offered a window into his worldview that was by turns crude and contradictory.

A Pacific Palisades youth baseball league has found a temporary home and, with lots of help, is reviving a sense of togetherness that was lost in January.

In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, the lawmakers, Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Jasmine Crockett of Texas, accused the Justice Department of a coverup.

Many aspiring lawyers could not access the test and cited delays or other issues. A lawmaker has called for an investigation.

New York’s subway has been flooded with patrols to prevent crime and stop fare evasion. One Sunday in Brooklyn, it all went wrong.

A 22-year-old inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, N.Y., died Saturday. Nine inmates said he was viciously beaten by corrections officers.

Feng Tao, who was tenured at the University of Kansas, was cleared of charges brought under a discontinued Trump program aimed at Chinese spying.

The question hovering over Washington was whether the confrontation was a spontaneous outburst or a planned verbal smack down.

The president and vice president’s berating of Volodymyr Zelensky was greeted with a mix of support and outrage.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport, said that the plane landed on Saturday morning and that there were no reported injuries.

Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.

The remarkable scene of a vice president injecting himself into a tense diplomatic discussion suggested that JD Vance does not want to be relegated to the B-team of the Trump administration.

Gov. Maura Healey, lamenting the decision, called the house “a special part of the history, culture and fabric” of the coastal region north of Boston.

Officials seized 25 animals, including a sloth and a critically endangered amphibian called an axolotl, and found new homes for them.

Prosecutors in suburban Chicago said the killing of Wadee Alfayoumi in 2023 was motivated by hatred of Muslims.