DID HE IMPROVE US RACE RELATIONS?

Back then, as Morrow recounted in his memoir, Black Man in the White House, African-Americans were routinely stereotyped as sexual predators incapable of controlling their desires... READ MORE›

TRUMP INSIDER JARED KUSHNER CHASES A MASSIVE CHINESE DEAL FOR FAMILY FIRM

The Kushner family business, led by Kushner, is a major real estate investor across the New York area and beyond... READ MORE›

6 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE AGA KHAN

The AKDN's fundamental objective is to improve the quality of human life, the Aga Khan said during a rare address to Canada's Parliament... READ MORE›

SHANGHAIA??S MOVE TO CURB INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS WORRIES PARENTS

Many private schools also omit the ideological instruction on Marxism and patriotism that is compulsory in public schools... READ MORE›

MORE THAN 1,100 LAW SCHOOL PROFESSORS NATIONWIDE OPPOSE SESSIONS'S NOMINATION AS ATTORNEY GENERAL

The people making these allegations against Senator Sessions don't know him, Smith said in an interview... READ MORE›

TEACHER RESIGNS AFTER MAKING RACIST FACEBOOK COMMENTS ABOUT OBAMAS

-- Trent Bennett has resigned his teaching position from Malvern High School, following his racist comments regarding Barack and Michelle Obama... READ MORE›

JENS RISOM MODERNIST DESIGNER WHOSE FURNITURE STILL HAS LEGS DIES AT 100

Jens Risom, Modernist Designer Whose Furniture Still Has Legs, Dies at 100... READ MORE›

RETURN OF MARATHON SHIFTS PROPOSED FOR YOUNG DOCTORS

This is deeply troubling, said Charles Czeisler, a professor at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital, who has studied what happens as residents work extended hours... READ MORE›

'LEGAL FIRST' AS ROLFA HARRIS IS SPARED HAVING TO ATTENDA SEX ATTACK TRIAL BECAUSE OF HIS AGE AND HEALTH

Donald Trump will bear the blame if America suffers a terror attack while he continues to refuse regular intelligence briefings, a former CIA director has warned... READ MORE›

NEXT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP COULD APPOINT FOUR NEW JUDGES

Since Scalia's death, the Supreme Court--split ideologically with four liberal-leaning justices and four conservative-leaning ones--has often come to impasses, requiring it to uphold lower courts' decisions... READ MORE›

MYANMAR LEADER FAULTED FOR SILENCE ON ARMYS ACTIONS

Instead, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi is depending on the advisory commission, which does not include any Rohingya members... READ MORE›

MICHIGAN ELECTORAL VOTES GO TO TRUMP AS STEIN PRESSES AHEAD WITH MONEY-GUSHING RECOUNT PUSH

Stein is meanwhile on track to raise twice as much for an election recount effort than she did for her own failed Green Party presidential bid... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP AIDE PUBLICLY QUESTIONS MITT ROMNEY'S LOYALTY, CASTING DOUBT ON SECRETARY OF STATE PICK

A senior Donald Trump aide has publicly criticised Mitt Romney and questioned his loyalty, throwing into doubt his status as front-runner to become secretary of state... READ MORE›

JARED KUSHNER CAST AS POTENTIAL PLAYER ON ISRAEL IS LITTLE KNOWN THERE

Mr. Kushner was in Israel during the war with Gaza that summer, which seemed to unnerve his wife... READ MORE›

THE REBEL ECONOMIST WHO BLEW UP MACROECONOMICS

Paul Romer says he really hadn't planned to trash macroeconomics as a math-obsessed pseudoscience... READ MORE›

TRUMP'S CIA PICK IS SEEN AS BOTH A FIERCE PARTISAN AND SERIOUS STUDENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES

Mike Pompeo, a Kansas congressman, is a West Point graduate and tea party ally... READ MORE›

JAPAN'S ABE MEETS TRUMP IN NEW YORK

The meeting began at Trump Tower in Manhattan, a Trump transition official said... READ MORE›

TRUMP WILL FILL SUPREME COURT VACANCY

WASHINGTON - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is acknowledging that the outcome of last week's election means that Donald Trump will fill the Supreme Court's 9-month-old vacancy... READ MORE›

TRUMP TOP COURT PICK WOULD IMPERIL OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE, CLEAN AIR, LGBT, OTHER LEGACIES

Republican Donald Trump's presidential election victory all but dooms major Obama administration initiatives that are already tied up in legal challenges a... READ MORE›

OBAMA HAS AGED, JUST NOT AS MUCH AS OUR COVER PREDICTED

That said, we won't judge No matter whom you support for president, this crazy election season probably gave you a few gray hairs, too... READ MORE›

HARVARD SOCCER TEAM SUSPENDED OVER SEX COMMENTS

Harvard University has suspended its men's soccer team after players made sexual comments about members of the women's team... READ MORE›

Europeans Trump Would Be A Terrible President, Clinton An Average One... READ MORE›

HARVARD CALLED 'LAZY, FAT, STUPID' IN ENDOWMENT REPORT LAST YEAR

The consulting firm McKinsey Co., in a wide-ranging examination, zeroed in on the endowment's benchmarks, or investment targets... READ MORE›

HILLARY'S OPEN BORDERS 'DREAM' IS A NIGHTMARE FOR WORKERS

Hillary's dream of open borders is a nightmare for wage earners... READ MORE›

SUPREME COURT BLOCKS OBAMA CLIMATE CHANGE RULES

Nor can it dampen the overwhelming public support for action on climate change and clean energy... READ MORE›

HARVARD UNIVERSITY DEBATE TEAM LOSES TO NEW YORK PRISON INMATES

The inmates debating team is part of an initiative from the nearby Bard College... READ MORE›

ANTONIN SCALIA, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, DIES AT 79

The totally unexpected loss of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a massive setback for the Conservative movement and our COUNTRY!... READ MORE›

THE MISTAKE WE ALL MAKE... AND THE SIMPLE EXPERIMENT THAT REVEALS IT

Don't assume that a given person's behaviour in one or two situations is necessarily predictive of future behaviour... READ MORE›

ANTONIN SCALIA, CONSERVATIVE US SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, DIES

Conservative US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dies aged 79 putting the balance of the highest court centre stage in the presidential election campaign... READ MORE›

COULD ANTS BE THE SOLUTION TO ANTIBIOTIC CRISIS

They have found that some species - including leaf-cutter ants from the Amazon - use bacteria to defend their nests against invading fungi and microbes... READ MORE›

WORK OF PROMINENT CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER WAS FUNDED BY ENERGY INDUSTRY

25m Willie Soon does not accept that rising greenhouse gas emissions cause climate change, instead blaming the sun... READ MORE›

BELGIUM FEARS NUCLEAR PLANTS ARE VULNERABLE

Experts say the most remote of the potential nuclear-related risks is that Islamic State operatives would be able to obtain highly enriched uranium... READ MORE›

APPLE'S HEALTH TECH TAKES EARLY LEAD AMONG TOP HOSPITALS

"TIMING RIGHT" Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans has been working with Apple and Epic Systems, Ochsner's medical records vendor, to roll out a pilot program for high-risk patients... READ MORE›

U.S. TOP COURT BACKS OBAMACARE, PRESIDENT SAYS IT'S HERE TO STAY

The Obama administration said 16.4 million previously uninsured people have gained health insurance since the law was enacted... READ MORE›

HOW POLITICAL CORRECTNESS RULES IN AMERICA'S STUDENT 'SAFE SPACES'

Today's university students, according to the professor, are the 9 11 generation ... READ MORE›

POWELL REVEALS DISGUST WITH TRUMP, DISTASTE FOR CLINTON IN HACKED EMAILS

As for Clinton, Powell said in another email that the Democratic former secretary of state was greedy and had unbridled ambition... READ MORE›

CHINA RESTRICTS FOREIGN GROUPS IN MOVE TO CURB WESTERN IDEAS

The prospect of the new law caused considerable anxiety among foreign and Chinese nongovernment organizations here after an early draft began circulating last year... READ MORE›

MALIA OBAMAS GAP YEAR IS PART OF A GROWING AND EXPENSIVE TREND

Florida State University is among the latest campuses to start offering scholarships to gap-year students... READ MORE›

DOCTOR WHO GAVE HUNDREDS OF HEALTHY PATIENTS CHEMOTHERAPY JAILED FOR 45 YEARS

Doctor who gave hundreds of healthy patients chemotherapy jailed for 45 years... READ MORE›

WHITE HOUSE LETTER MALIA OBAMA REBELS SORT OF BY CHOOSING HARVARD

Conjecture only grew after a photograph surfaced late Saturday night of Malia wearing a crimson Harvard 2020 T-shirt... READ MORE›

1 TAX HAVEN, 3 OF CANADA'S BIGGEST BANKS, 2,000 OFFSHORE COMPANIES

Although the OECD now considers the Bahamas compliant, in June 2015, the European Union listed the Bahamas and 30 other countries as uncooperative tax havens... READ MORE›

BIDEN SAYS SORRY TO UAE OVER SYRIA

Joe biden apologises to uae for syria extremist comments... READ MORE›

HARVARD'S HIGH-PROFILE ALUMNI JOIN FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT CAMPAIGN IN OPEN LETTER

University faces hearing in a lawsuit that argues Harvard has a duty to fight climate change by dumping fossil fuel companies from 36bn endowment... READ MORE›

HARVARD PREPARES TO FIGHT FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT CASE IN COURT

Harvard University is fighting a lawsuit brought by students calling on it to divest from fossil fuels... READ MORE›

WHAT IS MALIA OBAMA SMOKING? PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER SUSPECTED OF CANNABIS USE AT FESTIVAL

Miss Obama, who set to attend Harvard next year, was at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago, Illinois where a video captured her appearing to inhale... READ MORE›

MICHELLE OBAMA WITH CONAN OBRIEN VISITS TROOPS IN QATAR

Mrs. Obama's visit drew praise from the service members... READ MORE›

OBAMA: SENATE SHOULD FOLLOW CONSTITUTION, ALLOW VOTE ON SCOTUS NOMINEE

President Obama called on the Senate to rise above day-to-day politics and consider his as-yet-unnamed pick to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court... READ MORE›

SCHOOLING THE CLINTONS: OUR VIEW

For-profit Laureate university network paid 17.6 million to Bill Clinton... READ MORE›

HUMANS ARE DESCENDED FROM MURDEROUS BEASTS (BUT CIVILIZATION HAS TAMED US)

It was hard to calculate lethal violence rates for early humans Gomez examined several thousand prehistoric people's deaths across the globe in archeological sites... READ MORE›

GOLDMAN SACHS TAPS SNAPCHAT FOR RECRUITING MILLENNIALS

Goldman's 10-second recruitment clips appear between user-generated content segments... READ MORE›

TRUMP GETS IT RIGHT ON SADDAM

On Tuesday at a campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump defended the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's record on terrorism, saying, He was a bad guy... READ MORE›

RANKINGS CREATE A PUBLIC VS PRIVATE DILEMMA

Johns Hopkins University landed in the Top 10 for the first time in 16 years, tied for 10th with the California Institute of Technology... READ MORE›

GLENN REYNOLDS: HOW PC CULTURE IS KILLING HIGHER EDUCATION

The latest example of this phenomenon can be found at Emory University in Atlanta... READ MORE›

LIND IS THERE TOO MUCH DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA

DOES the rise of Donald J. Trump mean there is too much democracy in America?... READ MORE›

PRESIDENTS AND SPEAKERS: A CRUCIAL WASHINGTON RELATIONSHIP

--Republican President George W. Bush and Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert... READ MORE›

OBAMA COACHES TRUMP TO BE WORLD LEADER

We are very deferential and respectful of the fact that we already have a president of the United States, Barack Obama, Conway told reporters... READ MORE›

CALLING OBAMA 'SON OF A WHORE' NOT MEANT TO BE PERSONAL, SAYS PHILIPINES PRESIDENT

Rodrigo Duterte Philippines president expresses 'regret' after referring to Barack Obama as a 'son of a wh '... READ MORE›

'NO' TO OBAMA'S IMMIGRATION PLANS, SUPREME COURT SAYS

Texas had led 26 Republican-dominated states in challenging the Obama initiatives in court... READ MORE›

GEORGE OSBORNE APPEARS TO ENDORSE HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT - AND BORROWS BARACK OBAMA'S GAG

George Osborne has signalled his support for Hillary Clinton's presidential bid in the United States - though, in a way markedly similar to Barack Obama... READ MORE›

OBAMA'S DAUGHTER MALIA TO ATTEND HARVARD AFTER GAP YEAR

Both of her parents are alumni of Harvard Law School... READ MORE›

BUDGET-CONTROLLING REPUBLICANS BALK AT SENATE DEMOCRAT CALL FOR $1.9 BILLION TO FIGHT ZIKA

Republicans are demanding greater detail about the request the White House has responded by turning up the political heat... READ MORE›

REPUBLICAN, SIGNALING A SHIFT, SAYS MORE MONEY NEEDED FOR ZIKA FIGHT

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he anticipated that President Barack Obama would sign the bill, which provides financial incentives to companies developing treatments for Zika... READ MORE›

OBAMA WILL MOVE 'PROMPTLY' TO PICK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

Obama will move 'promptly' to pick Supreme Court justice White House... READ MORE›

OBAMA TO NOMINATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WHEN SENATE RETURNS

Obama to nominate Supreme Court justice when Senate returns White House... READ MORE›

OBAMA CONFIDENT CARBON PLEDGE HAS 'LEGAL FOOTING' DESPITE TOP COURT HALT

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday called the Supreme Court's decision to delay implementation of his administration's Clean Power Plan unusual and... READ MORE›

FOOD AND POLITICS FROM HAY-ADAMS TO BEN'S CHILI BOWL

Washington DC Food and politics from Hay-Adams to Ben's Chili Bowl... READ MORE›