Stephanie Saul

An analysis finds that flagship state universities, as well as less selective colleges, had major increases in Black and Hispanic students following a ban on race-conscious admissions.

Sites in China are selling test questions, and online forums offer software that can bypass test protections, according to tutors and testing experts raising alarms.

Other costs would also be waived for students whose families earn less than $100,000. Yale joins other elite schools offering more generous financial aid, including Penn, Harvard and M.I.T.

Three people from Indiana and two from Kentucky are in custody, officials said. The judge, Steven Meyer, and his wife were injured but are recovering.

The police in Lafayette, Ind., said they were investigating the nonfatal shootings of a Tippecanoe County Superior Court judge and his wife on Sunday.

Legal and criminal justice experts said a ruling by a federal judge last week revealed conduct by immigration agents that evokes the civil rights era.

Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, appointed new board members at three state schools, hours after she was sworn in as Virginia’s first female governor.

The University of Arkansas withdrew a job offer to a South Carolina legal scholar after state officials learned that she had signed a legal brief concerning transgender athletes, state lawmakers said.

The New York Times examined data from 18 of the nation’s top law schools and found that first-year Black enrollment had increased at only four, including at Harvard.

The student, in his first year at Brown, described helping others who were more seriously injured than him as they hid in their classroom.

Some disciplinary measures have been imposed on the lecturer, including being monitored as she teaches a class on diversity and social justice.

The protest was over the removal of another instructor, who gave a failing grade on a paper about gender that relied on the Bible as its main source.