The debates and protests sparked by Israel's war in the Gaza Strip have worked their way into seemingly every corner in the world — even the free-spirited desert festival in Nevada known as Burning Man.

Organizers of the festival, where "radical self-expression" is one of its guiding principles, found themselves embroiled in controversy this ...Read more

ATLANTA — As community members at Emory University gathered by the hundreds on a Friday afternoon to rally in support of Palestinians and rebuke the chaotic clearing of a protest the day prior, more familiar scenes took place on the margins of the quad.

Groups of students dressed in white posed for photos with their academic regalia and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — At some colleges, protests, sit-ins and their latest iteration — encampments — have long been part of the campus culture.

At Swarthmore College, sit-ins go back at least to 1969, when students were calling for more Black student enrollment. The same is true at the University of Pennsylvania, where people still talk about ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Standing at a cloth-draped table where the Torah is read, Rabbi Sharon Brous delivered her Saturday sermon, recounting her experience at a recent UCLA protest.

Demonstrators draped in Israeli flags screamed at students in keffiyehs. The rhetoric was hateful, laced with threats of violence, she said.

"It felt like everyone was ...Read more

Religious strife is common in many places. While the United States has a great deal of litigation and controversy over religion’s place in public life, it has largely avoided violence. Yet our society often seems unprepared to talk constructively about this contentious topic, especially in schools.

According to the IDEALS survey of ...Read more

The world’s first conference on the abolition of torture drew more than 300 delegates representing over 70 countries and international organizations. It opened with the news that the United Nations General Assembly had passed a resolution condemning torture, along with a personal message from the U.N. secretary general.

Amnesty ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On a Friday morning, just before 9 a.m., men, women and children packed the lobby of the Family Solution Center in South Los Angeles. A mother with her two young boys said they had been sleeping in her car for months. She had arrived hoping to secure a spot in a shelter. Another, who sat with three of her children, ages 2, 6 and ...Read more

CHICAGO — Julie Harris had never been tested for lung cancer. A low-dose CT scan, the only recommended screening for adults at risk of developing lung cancer, was not something she’d ever found time to do.

But when her primary care doctor recently suggested a new blood test to help look for signs of the disease, Harris was intrigued. She ...Read more

Hennessy Sepulveda thought she was going to die.

“I began dissociating as I was driving. I was 10 minutes away from my house. My vision started warping and the lights were hitting me really bright,” she said. “I felt my chest pounding, I felt a wave of panic hit me — I knew something was wrong.”

Sepulveda, a Florida International ...Read more

Low in nutrition and high in calories, ultraprocessed foods account for 57% of adult diets in the United States. A study published in the BMJ on Wednesday associated these snacks, drinks and ready meals with an increased risk of death by any cause.

“Higher ultra-processed food intake was associated with slightly increased all cause mortality,...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee announced it would further probe allegations that Rep. Troy Nehls may have misused campaign funds for personal purposes.

The committee said in March that it had received a referral about Nehls last year from the Office of Congressional Ethics. On Friday, the committee announced its plans to conduct a ...Read more

Harvard University again threatened suspensions for pro-Palestinian protesters if they don’t leave a campus encampment, escalating tensions in an impasse that’s left the school as one of the few elite colleges that hasn’t forcibly removed demonstrators.

The Ivy League university has so far resisted calling in the police to clear the ...Read more

CHICAGO — A Lake County judge has given the company that publishes far-right websites and flyers designed to look like newspapers until 5 p.m. Monday to remove some personally identifiable voter information it publicly posted earlier this year in apparent violation of state law.

In an order issued Thursday in response to a complaint from ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — The National Executive Board of Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity has responded to allegations of hazing surrounding its chapter at the University of Connecticut, which was suspended this week after its former chapter president was arrested twice.

“As our track record shows, Lambda Theta Phi seeks to collaborate with our ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York University students protesting for Palestinians took over the lobby of the Bobst Library building Friday afternoon, unfurling banners and demanding that the institution divest from Israel.

The move came one week after police cleared a nearby encampment of NYU students, and is the third such occupation led by NYU students ...Read more

NEW YORK — A state judge on Friday evening struck down Nassau County’s controversial sports ban on transgender women and girls, finding that the county’s Republican executive had acted beyond his authority in enacting the ban.

The decision, issued in Nassau Supreme Court by Justice Francis Ricigliano, delivers a significant victory to the...Read more