The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is facing a lawsuit over its racial hiring quotas after a former professor claimed he was illegally "retaliated" against for objecting to its allegedly ...

May 2, the inaugural festival brings concerts, augmented reality experiences, exhibitions, films and more in celebration of ...

MEXICO CITY—When President Trump called her last week, President Claudia Sheinbaum was prepared to speak with a U.S. leader who wouldn’t yield on tariffs.

Law professor Katherine Franke makes her way across the Columbia University campus in New York in October. (Victor J. Blue for The Washington Post) Law professor Katherine Franke drew colleagues ...

On Tuesday evening, award-winning writers Bernadine Evaristo and Claudia Rankine read excerpts of their work and reflected on ...

What an image,” an audience member whispered, looking at a photo displayed behind poet Claudia Rankine — it depicted a couch ...

Jan 17 (Reuters) - University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax sued the school for racial discrimination on Thursday, escalating a long-running clash with administrators over her ...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica— Professor Dale Webber has been named Jamaica’s first special envoy for climate change, the environment and matters of the ocean and the blue economy. The announcement was ...

In February 2025, internet users shared a long quote about the reaction of the "rest of the world" to U.S. President Donald Trump's border policy, attributing the text to Mexican President Claudia ...

The Traitors fans saw the cast left rattled on Friday night, after some news from host Claudia Winkleman. Claudia dropped an unexpected announcement leaving them all reeling and shouting out.

The authors suggest that this variability results in researchers from countries that value one type of metric being locked out of professor positions in others. They hope that the database of ...