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People are seen traversing the Brown University campus in Providence, R.I., Oct. 12, 2020. Steven Senne/AP hide caption toggle caption Steven Senne/AP WASHINGTON — Brown University will pay $50 million to Rhode Island workforce development organizations in a deal with the Trump administration that restores lost federal research funding and ends investigations into alleged discrimination, officials said Wednesday. The university also agreed to several concessions in line with President Donald Trump’s political agenda. Brown will adopt the government’s definition of “male” and “female,” for example, and must remove any consideration of race from the admissions process. Brown President Christina H.…

Top Texas Democrats are sounding the alarm over a GOP plan to redraw Texas’ congressional maps, warning in interviews with CBS News it would dramatically dilute minority representation in the Lone Star State and set off a nationwide ripple effect.Republican state lawmakers unveiled a draft congressional map on Wednesday that would turn five U.S. House districts currently held by Democrats into GOP-leaning seats — an idea blessed by President Trump as Republicans angle to hold onto their narrow congressional majority in next year’s midterms.One Democratic member of Congress whose district could be impacted called the proposed map “grossly unfair,” arguing…

With Trump’s popularity in freefall, 2026 should be a gimme for the opposition. But there are signs that the Dems could sleepwalk into disaster. Ad Policy Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images) Six months into the catastrophe known as the second Trump administration, the Democratic Party is experiencing the unfamiliar emotion of hope. President Donald Trump has been in a polling free fall ever since the summer of Epstein kicked off in earnest. With the White House’s increasingly frantic efforts to dismiss questions about the president’s decade-and-a-half-long bro-ship with…

Arkansas State Police have arrested a suspect after a couple was killed while hiking with their two young daughters over the weekend at Devil’s Den State Park. James Andrew McGann, 28, of Springdale, was taken into custody on Wednesday and has been charged with two counts of capital murder, police said.Clinton David Brink, 43, and Cristen Amanda Brink, 41, were found dead Saturday at the park in Washington County. The couple was hiking with their two daughters, ages 7 and 9, when they were attacked, state police said. Their daughters were not hurt and are being cared for by family members,…

Washington — Former Vice President Kamala Harris won’t run for California governor next year, she announced Wednesday afternoon in a statement. “In recent months, I have given serious thought to asking the people of California for the privilege to serve as their governor,” the 60-year-old Oakland native and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee said. “I love this state, its people, and its promise. It is my home. But after deep reflection, I’ve decided that I will not run for governor in this election.””For now, my leadership—and public service—will not be in elected office,” she added.Declining a gubernatorial bid gives Harris a window…

In this file photo from August 1958 American labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, President of the Teamster’s Union, testified at a hearing investigating labor rackets. Hoffa disappeared in 1975 and no body has ever been found. Keystone/Getty Images/Hulton Archive hide caption toggle caption Keystone/Getty Images/Hulton Archive His full name is James Riddle Hoffa. But everyone knew him as Jimmy. A labor leader who thrived in the rough and tumble world of union organizing, of contracts, and picket lines… and of standing up for workers right no matter what. When he disappeared it was front page news. But how many imagined we’d…

Case update: On July 30, 2025, a jury found James Craig guilty of murdering his wife Angela Craig. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.This story was originally posted on March 23, 2024. It was updated on Jan. 4, 2025.In Aurora, Colorado, James Craig was a well-known dentist. He and his wife Angela Craig were raising six children. On March 6, 2023, Angela Craig reported feeling sick and her husband took her to a hospital. There would be two hectic weeks and three hospital visits. On March 15, Angela Craig was put on life support; three…

The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case. Ad Policy US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington.(Bonnie Cash / UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Idid not write an “end of term” Supreme Court review piece this year because… what’s the point? The intellectual exercise of parsing how the conservative supermajority bends and breaks legal principles to achieve the Republican agenda feels unimportant when plotted against the court’s refusal to apply any legal…

Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas and five other defendants, including a suspected high-level member of an Israeli transnational organized crime group, were arrested Wednesday for allegedly operating an illegal gambling and poker ring out of a California home that Arenas owned, according to unsealed court documents. According to an indictment that was filed on July 15th, federal prosecutors in the Central District of California allege that between September 2021 and July 2022, Arenas allegedly rented out a mansion in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles so he and his co-conspirators could run illegal high-stakes poker games out of the house. Prosecutors allege…

The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it’s keeping its benchmark interest rate unchanged, citing elevated uncertainty over the nation’s economic outlook.The decision to hold rates steady marks a continuation of the Fed’s “wait-and-see” strategy this year, as it monitors the impact of the Trump administration’s tariffs on consumer prices. But Wednesday’s policy statement also underscored that the growth remains solid despite concerns about slowing economic activity. “Although swings in net exports continue to affect the data, recent indicators suggest that growth of economic activity moderated in the first half of the year,” the Federal Open Market Committee, the central bank’s rate-setting panel, said in…