Organizations that track the removal of books from schools and libraries are denouncing last week's Department of Education announcement that calls bans a "hoax" and dismisses 11 complaints that had been filed during the Biden administration.

In 2023-2024, bans grew 20 times over the 2020 baseline. That’s a lot of missing books and a lot of students denied the freedom to read.

The U.S. Department of Education under President Donald Trump unilaterally dismissed complaints about recent public school book bans. It falsely described them as hoaxes.

Organizations that track the removal of books from schools and libraries are denouncing a Department of Education announcement that called bans a "hoax" and dismissed 11 complaints that had been filed during the Biden administration.

IAC Inc. is following through with its plans to spin off the home-improvement site Angi Inc., once known as Angie’s List — saying late Monday that its board had approved the plan as the parent ...

PEN America and the American Library Association have reported thousands of bans around the country, with targeted books often containing LGBTQ+ or racial themes, from Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir, “Gender Queer,” to Angie Thomas’ novel ...

This has received little press attention, but on Monday Mr. Trump issued an executive order titled “The Iron Dome for America.” The order instructs new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Isaiah Thomas showed he is still a potent scorer, pouring in 40 points Tuesday night in his return to the NBA G League. A two-time NBA All-Star, Thomas was activated by the Salt ...

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The newly created European Union far-right party the Patriots for Europe, home to populists like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and France’s Marine Le Pen, will hold a “Make Europe Great Again” rally in Madrid on Feb. 8, two officials told POLITICO.

The Brazilian painter Angie left her mother Glória and her sister Sônia to seek out her father, who left her family when she was a child, in the United States of America. Angie wanders and camps ...

When I moved to New York in 1985, in the first of a couple of stints amounting to 10 years, the city and America itself seemed an amazingly seductive country. Like young people the world over ...