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Picture campuses that embrace moral complexity and ideological diversity as kindling for knowledge rather than impediments to be shouted down. Dream of graduates prepared to reason alongside rivals with compassion.

Former President Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to overturn a Colorado court’s landmark ruling disqualifying him from the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban. Trump’s petition asks that the Supreme Court agree to take up the case and immediately reverse the Colorado ruling in a summary decision without oral...

Former President Trump's attorney Alina Habba on Wednesday said the former president is concerned the U.S. Supreme Court justices may "shy away from being pro-Trump," and rule against him in regard to the recent decisions in Colorado and Maine that kicked him off the states' 2024 primary ballots. Responding to New York Times reporter Maggie...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story National debt tops $34 trillion The U.S. national debt hit $34 trillion for the first time last Friday, according to new data from the Treasury Department. © AP Photo/J. David Ake The nation's debt topped $34 trillion...

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said Wednesday that fellow candidate Nikki Haley “knew exactly when she was doing” when she failed to mention slavery as a cause of the Civil War, at a town hall last week — in a moment that prompted broad criticism from Democrats, as well as her GOP primary opponents. In...

The popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT had a diagnostic error rate of more than 80 percent in a new study looking at the use of artificial intelligence in pediatric case diagnosis. For the study published in JAMA Pediatrics this week, texts from 100 case challenges found in JAMA and the New England Journal of...

Former President Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to overturn a Colorado court’s landmark ruling disqualifying him from the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban. The appeal likely sets up an extraordinary battle at the nation’s highest court, which has never ruled on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. That...

Valley Meats, LLC, based out of Illinois, has recalled 6,768 pounds of raw ground beef products after a third-party test confirmed the presence of E. coli in samples of the meat.

Men carrying genetic factors linked to bisexual attraction tend to have more children, a new study has found. The paper published Wednesday in Science Advances found evidence for genetic variations that contribute to both bisexual attraction in men and a heightened appetite for risk. Those findings help resolve a paradox at the heart of evolutionary theory — while also raising difficult...

An offshore wind project in New England that is expected to be the U.S.'s first large-scale offshore wind farm has delivered power to the electric grid for the first time. The Vineyard Wind project — located off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts — sent power to the New England grid during initial testing. ...

Florida’s surgeon general on Wednesday officially called for a halt “to the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,” citing a discredited theory that has been debunked by federal and global health officials. In a statement released by the Florida Department of Health, Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said he previously raised questions about the safety of the...

Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability   The Big Story Wintry weather disrupts California’s dry spell A series of storms has started soaking much of California, as the Golden State trades a dry December for welcome wintry weather over the coming days. © AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez Despite the precipitation, experts...

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) gave kudos to the Biden administration over efforts to invest in the domestic clean energy industry, adding that it’s critical for the country to have a focus on diversity in the growing workforce. “When you're looking at energy and the future, if you're interested in everybody's livelihood, then you've got to...

Congress has a lot on its plate, but we cannot let any more time go by without addressing the affordable housing crisis head on. We urge our leaders and colleagues to act now and not let this crisis get any worse.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) blasted Harvard University for not demanding the resignation of university president Claudine Gay immediately after her controversial testimony during a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism last month. “My question was very simple. It was a moral question because calling for the genocide of Jews can ruin your schools code of conduct...

Biden administration officials said Wednesday there is no reason to believe Israel was responsible for an explosion in Iran that killed roughly 100 people, thought it is unclear who was behind the attack. “We don't have any more detail in terms of how it happened or who might be responsible for it," John Kirby, a...