PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal court has ruled against a Republican lawmaker from Maine who sued the state's Democratic House speaker after being censured for a social media post about a transgender athlete. Rep. Laurel Libby posted about a high school athlete who won a girls' track ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Transit police in Boston were investigating a shooting on a subway platform at Harvard University on Sunday that prompted the school to issue a shelter-in-place order for students and staff. Authorities temporarily rerouted passengers on part of the city's subway ...
A Tufts University student from Turkey being held in a Louisiana immigration facility must be returned to New England no later than May 1 to determine whether she was illegally detained for co-writing an op-ed piece in the student newspaper, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge ...
For more than a century, the majority of colleges and universities have not paid most taxes. The Revenue Act of 1909 excused nonprofits operating "exclusively for religious, charitable, or educational purposes" in order to continue acting in the public interest. President Donald Trump is ...
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday partially blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of "X" marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers. U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick, who was appointed by President ...
The U.S. has 800 cases of measles nationwide as of Friday, and two more states identified outbreaks this week. Texas is driving the high numbers, with an outbreak centered in West Texas that started nearly three months ago and is up to 597 cases. Two unvaccinated elementary school-aged ...
