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Education department probes complaints about Katoomba high school’s response to claims of harassment among students

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday appointed Mark C. Hanson, the former head of the San Francisco Orchestra and a leader one musician described as “a giant in the industry,” as its next president and CEO.

ATLANTA — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock's ex-wife is seeking changes to their child custody arrangement in court documents that claim he's in "willful contempt" of the agreement as she attempts to move outside of Georgia.

Languages rise and fall with history, in nations and university language departments alike. In 1980, when Roman Koropeckyj stepped into his classroom at Harvard to teach Polish, he was "gobsmacked" by the dozens of students awaiting him. The Polish trade unionists of the Solidarity movement, who were defying Soviet oppression…

There’s a connection between a commonly prescribed drug for diabetes and a higher risk for birth defects if a father uses it within three months of conceiving a baby, a new study has found.

Let’s start with the easy part. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was wrong to harangue Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing about books allegedly used to teach critical race theory at the Georgetown Day School, where Jackson serves on the board of trustees. It had nothing to…

The star will become a Doctor of Fine Arts at the awards ceremony in May

Feb. 11—Como estudiante excepcional y formidable polemista en la preparatoria Miami Palmetto, Ketanji Brown Jackson podía haber elegido entre muchas carreras, pero ya sabía exactamente lo que quería hacer.

From a friend’s charming stories to a senator’s heartfelt backing, here are some non-enraging moments from the Senate