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On Friday, the fight with U.S. higher education started by America’s 47th president, Donald Trump, landed at the university founded by its third president, Thomas Jefferson. The University of Virginia’s president, James E. Ryan, submitted his resignation Friday in an effort to resolve Trump administration demands related to a federal investigation into the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, according to sources familiar with the matter. File: University of Virginia President James Ryan attends a press conference related to an overnight shooting at the university on November 14, 2022 in Charlottesville, Virginia.  Win McNamee / Getty Images The move is the first such…

From left, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Trump and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Jack Guez and Piroschka Van De Wouw/Pool/AFP, Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jack Guez and Piroschka Van De Wouw/Pool/AFP, Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran/Getty Images The U.S. military strikes on key Iranian nuclear sites have reignited long-standing debates over Washington’s strategy in the Middle East. While President Trump hailed the attacks as a decisive blow to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, reactions from regional and international experts reveal a far more divided picture. Shortly before the…

Trump says he’s ending Canada trade talks Trump says he is terminating trade talks with Canada “effective immediately” 11:35 President Trump says he’s “terminating all discussions on trade with Canada, effective immediately,” after Canada announced a digital services tax on large foreign and domestic technology companies. Posting on Truth Social Friday afternoon, the president said the U.S. will let Canada know what their tariff rate will be in the next week. The trade talks blowup comes only a week after the president met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the Group of Seven economic summit in Alberta. “We have just been informed…

Every day, The Nation exposes the administration’s unchecked and reckless abuses of power through clear-eyed, uncompromising independent journalism—the kind of journalism that holds the powerful to account and helps build alternatives to the world we live in now.  We have just the right people to confront this moment. Speaking on Democracy Now!, Nation DC Bureau chief Chris Lehmann translated the complex terms of the budget bill into the plain truth, describing it as “the single largest upward redistribution of wealth effectuated by any piece of legislation in our history.” In the pages of the June print issue and on The…

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez to wed in Italy Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez set for star-studded wedding in Venice 02:07 Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former journalist Lauren Sánchez are getting married in Italy this week, and a star-studded list of celebrities was seen in Venice for the festivities.Wedding location details have been under wraps, but Italian papers and Venetian locals predicted it would take place Friday on San Giorgio Maggiore, which is known for the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore. Bezos and Sanchez invited some 200 guests to celebrate, according to media reports.This will be the second…

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law that requires pornography websites to verify their visitors’ age, finding that the lower court applied the appropriate level of judicial review when evaluating the constitutionality of the age-verification laws.The high court divided 6-3 along ideological lines, with Justice Clarence Thomas authoring the decision for the majority. The Supreme Court said that the law survives a more heightened form of judicial scrutiny.”We granted certiorari to decide whether these burdens likely render [Texas law] H. B. 1181 unconstitutional under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. We hold that they…

An employee works on a solar panel inside a Qcells factory in Dalton, Ga. Mike Stewart/AP/AP hide caption toggle caption Mike Stewart/AP/AP A couple of years ago, Mick McDaniel started a company in Indianapolis to make solar panels in the United States. Then-President Joe Biden had just signed the Inflation Reduction Act, a law packed with tax incentives for clean energy. America’s solar market was about to take off. Since then, tens of billions of dollars have poured into solar factories that are operating or under development, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association, or SEIA, which advocates on behalf…

A northern West Virginia region still cleaning up from flash flooding less than two weeks ago was hit with torrential rains that sent creeks over their banks again Thursday night.A flash flood warning was issued for the Wheeling area, about an hour’s drive southwest of Pittsburgh. The National Weather Service said up to 2 inches of rain fell, and more was possible later. Residents posted video on social media showing streets turned into rivers. Some said the storms formed quickly and that homes that were hit from the last round of flooding were taking on water again. Much of the…

Mamdani understood what the people who tried to demonize him did not: that voters aren’t buying the same old smears about Palestine anymore. Ad Policy New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani travels by subway to the “No Kings” protest in Bryant Park, New York City, on June 14, 2025.(Melissa Bender / NurPhoto via AP) Zohran Mamdani has shocked the country by winning New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary with ease. His resounding victory over rival Andrew Cuomo—which both pundits and polls had utterly failed to predict—has not only set him up as a potentially crucial figure on the American…

Washington — Some Senate Democrats cast doubt on the Trump administration’s characterization of the strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities after top officials briefed senators Thursday. In recent days, President Trump repeatedly declared “total obliteration” after three nuclear sites were bombed in a secret attack by the U.S. Meanwhile, an initial classified assessment found that the strikes set back Tehran’s nuclear program by a matter of months, while Mr. Trump said the nuclear program was set back “basically decades.” Democrats questioned assertions regarding how much Iran’s nuclear program has been hindered. “I walk away from that briefing still under the belief that we have…