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The Primary School opened in 2016, just a couple miles from Facebook’s headquarters. Its mission was to serve as a tuition-free hub where children from low-income families could be educated and have access to health care and social workers under one roof.Dr. Priscilla Chan, a pediatrician married to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, worked with Meredith Liu, an educator and friend, to build the school in East Palo Alto, Calif., a diverse town that rarely reaps the benefits of its far wealthier Silicon Valley neighbors.They talked about how low-income children were more likely to have experienced trauma early in…

One of the nation’s most elite liberal arts schools, Amherst College has historically also been one of its most diverse. In 2023, federal data revealed that its overall Black enrollment, 11 percent of the student body, far outstripped many other similar institutions. So it was particularly jarring to the Amherst community last fall when data for the entering freshman class revealed that only 3 percent of its members were Black.Quincy Smith, an art major, joined one of the most diverse classes in Amherst history in 2022 and said gatherings of Black students feel different now: “There’s less engagement, fewer people…

Politics / April 21, 2025 The Maryland senator put a wedge between Trump and Salvadoran dictator Bukele and showed Democrats how to find their spines. Ad Policy Senator Van Hollen takes questions at Dulles International Airport upon his return from El Salvador, where he met wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia on April 18.(Pete Kiehart / The Washington Post via Getty Images) On Sunday, Senator Chris Van Hollen conquered all five morning talk shows. He was by far the most coveted guest after his return from El Salvador, where he stood down the country’s despot and secured a meeting with the…

After an outcry from scientists and experts, federal officials on Thursday said they would restore funding to the Women’s Health Initiative, one of the largest and longest studies of women’s health ever carried out.The findings of the W.H.I. and its randomized controlled trials have changed medical practices and helped shape clinical guidelines, preventing hundreds of thousands of cases of cardiovascular disease and breast cancer.“These studies represent critical contributions to our better understanding of women’s health,” said Emily G. Hilliard, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services.“We are now working to fully restore funding to these essential research…

Politics / April 21, 2025 Trump’s Weekend at Bernie’s White House is inherently chaotic. Ad Policy President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing a proclamation in the Oval Office at the White House on April 17, 2025, in Washington, DC.(Win McNamee / Getty Images) Donald Trump uses the term “strongman” as high praise. “Sometimes you need a strongman,” Trump said last September of the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. In Trump’s usage, “strongman” connotes not just dictatorship but also what he sees as the admirable traits of decisive and effective leadership that does what’s necessary with no regard to the…

Over the past two weeks, immigration lawyers, scrambling from courthouse to courthouse, have secured provisional orders in five states stopping the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, to deport Venezuelans accused of being gang members to a terrorism prison in El Salvador.Judges have been harsh in appraising how the White House has used the powerful statute. “Cows have better treatment now under the law,” a federal judge in Manhattan said on Tuesday.But at least so far, the one thing the lawyers have not managed to do is protect another — and harder to reach…

During impromptu remarks to reporters outside the White House on April 23, President Trump said the U.S. will “have a fair deal with China.”  Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images We’ll be recapping what you need to know every Friday morning for the first 100 days of the Trump administration. Get more updates and analysis in the NPR Politics newsletter. After weeks of volatility because of Trump’s trade war, the stock markets this week responded positively to Trump softening his tone toward China and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,…

Nodules containing valuable metals can be found scattered across the seabed in some parts of the ocean. Here, manganese nodules found off the Southeastern U.S. in 2019. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research hide caption toggle caption NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research President Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the deep seafloor, saying it would create “a robust domestic supply for critical minerals.” There is currently no commercial-scale deep-sea mining anywhere in the world. But companies have long eyed the ocean floor as a potential source of metals…

Politics / April 24, 2025 The university’s case against the administration is incredibly strong. The question is whether normal rules still apply. Ad Policy Tourists in front of the main gate to Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts.(Scott Eisen / Getty Images) On April 11, after weeks of saber rattling about “recapturing” higher education, Donald Trump’s ruling junta sent a list of demands to Harvard University. Under the guise of “combating antisemitism,” the Trump administration demanded that Harvard take a number of steps including: hiring professors who meet the administration’s own standards for “viewpoint diversity”; admitting a “critical mass” of students…

During President Trump’s first term, Ukraine worried that Mr. Trump might recognize Russian control over Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula Moscow forcibly seized in early 2014.As a candidate, Mr. Trump had said he would “take a look” at the matter, even though the Obama administration and America’s Western allies had rejected Russia’s annexation of the strategic territory. Mr. Trump even mused that “the people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russia.”But Mr. Trump never followed through and even doubled down against Moscow. In July 2018, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued an official “Crimea Declaration” pledging that…