While President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has drawn noisy debate over taxes and immigration, its most transformative, and potentially divisive, legacy may unfold far from the public gaze: Inside America’s classrooms. Formally known as the American Prosperity and Freedom Act, the bill runs 940 pages deep. Nestled in its dense legal language is a…
An Indian professional working in the United States claimed that they were asked to “stop speaking” in meetings as co-workers couldn’t understand their accent. The 32-year-old shared the ordeal on reddit saying that they felt “dismissed and insulted”.“I’m 32, originally from India, currently working in the U.S. with a client team where everyone else is…
Japan, a nation that has long carried the bastion of tireless dedication and unflinching corporate loyalty, now finds itself at a quiet inflection point. A country once synonymous with grueling hours, unpaid overtime, and near-sacred allegiance to employers is witnessing a subtle yet significant rebellion.It does not prevail through mass resignations but simmers in measured…
The cardinals electing a new pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church left the Sistine Chapel exhausted and hungry. A meditation to start the conclave had dragged on and pushed their first vote deep into Wednesday evening. It had resulted in an inconclusive tally, with three main contenders. Keeping their vow of secrecy, they returned…
Before mourners in their thousands gather in St. Peter’s Square to grieve, before leaders from around the world arrive to pay their respects, and long before cardinals cloister themselves to consider the future, the Vatican holds a small ceremony when a pope dies. It did so again around 8 p.m. Monday when, just over 12…
Follow live coverage of the final round of the 2025 Masters AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Masters will never be cheugy. It may be a crime of fashion to be overdone, outdated or, gasp, dressed in millenial-core for 51 weeks a year. But for this week, at Augusta National Golf Club during the Masters, the patrons come…
FILE – People remove belongings on campus at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., March 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File) Alarms are ringing across American universities as federal authorities escalate a quiet but forceful campaign against international students. Legal residency statuses are being revoked without notice, visa permissions are being stripped…
King Charles III flew by helicopter to the H.M.S. Prince of Wales in the English Channel on Tuesday, where he mingled with sailors and watched as fighter jets took off from the deck of the ship, a Royal Navy aircraft carrier. It might have been a welcome getaway from his suddenly complicated social life. In…
Sometimes, we are the TV executives and they are us. We like to get after them and blame them for things, which they mostly deserve. But all of us — execs, fans, rights holders, stakeholders, headset holders, anyone who cares about college football and isn’t a college football coach — should gasp together at what…
The senior American diplomat slipped quietly into Belarus, a police state run by a strongman reviled for decades in the West, traveling by car across the border for meetings with President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko and the head of his KGB security apparatus. It was Mr. Lukashenko’s first meeting with a senior State Department official in…