The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Thursday he had requested arrest warrants for the supreme leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban government and the country’s chief justice for their “unprecedented” persecution of Afghan women and girls. The prosecutor, Karim Khan, said in a statement that the Taliban’s leader, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, and the…
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would enter a new battlefield in the culture wars, agreeing to decide whether the Constitution guarantees parents of students in public schools the right to have their children excused from classroom discussion of storybooks featuring L.G.B.T.Q. characters and themes. Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland’s largest school system,…
The teacher needed teenagers for her summer acting class in Kyiv, which would end with the performance of an original play. “This is a course for happy children, free in their thoughts and dreams,” the instructor, Olesia Korzhenevska, wrote on Facebook last spring. It was hard to find happy teenagers in Ukraine. The pandemic and…
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York on Monday announced her intention to limit access to cellphones in schools for students in kindergarten through 12th grade as part of her latest push to address children’s reliance on the devices. In a statement, which provided no other details, the governor said she would include the legislation in…
Public schools in Montclair, N.J. were closed on Monday after district leaders learned of a “potential threat” that raised security concerns, according to an early-morning email sent to parents and caregivers. Damen Cooper, the schools superintendent, said in an email that the district became aware of the potential threat late Sunday evening and could not…
In June 1972, Judge Roth ordered a broad integration plan, which included such prosperous suburbs as Grosse Pointe and Bloomfield Hills in the same “metropolitan” school district as Detroit. That is, he established a system of “busing” — a word that was every bit as politically incendiary at that time as “trans” is today. The…
References to the ousted President Bashar al-Assad and his father, who ruled Syria before him, have been removed, as have images of pre-Islamic gods. The definition of a martyr has been changed, and it now means someone who has died for God, not one’s country. A Roman-era queen has been taken out of some textbooks….
Before she was Debrina, she was Debbie. In her town of Little Falls, N.J., Debbie Kawam was a girl people wanted to be around: the cheerleader with the inner glow, dispensing high-fives in the hallways of Passaic Valley Regional High School, cruising with friends, striking a pose against a backdrop of Led Zeppelin posters, welcoming…