Yale to Require Standardized Test Scores for Admissions
Yale University will require standardized test scores for students applying for the class entering in the fall of 2025, becoming the second Ivy League university to abandon test-optional policies that had been widely embraced during the Covid pandemic. Yale officials said in an announcement on Thursday that the shift to test-optional policies might have unwittingly […]
How to Pack for a Two-Week Trip With One Small Suitcase
Ask any frequent traveler their rules for a trip, and you’ll likely hear the same advice: Never check a bag. Carry-on only. But fitting everything you need, especially for a longer stay, into one small suitcase and one handbag or backpack requires some ingenuity: The maximum dimensions for luggage going into most overhead bins are […]
Leaked Files Show the Secret World of China’s Hackers for Hire
The hackers offered a menu of services, at a variety of prices. A local government in southwest China paid less than $15,000 for access to the private website of traffic police in Vietnam. Software that helped run disinformation campaigns and hack accounts on X cost $100,000. For $278,000 Chinese customers could get a trove of […]
Biden Cancels $1.2 Billion in Student Loan Debt for 150,000 Borrowers
After the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s plan to cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt, borrowers wondered how he would make good on his promise to tackle debt burdening millions of Americans. The answer: He would do it bit by bit. Mr. Biden on Wednesday canceled $1.2 billion in student loan debt, […]
Arizona Will Not Extradite NYC Hotel Murder Suspect, Calling Bragg Untrustworthy
On Feb. 8, a woman was found dead in a Manhattan hotel room, bludgeoned to death with an iron. This week, the police announced that a 26-year-old man suspected of committing the crime had been arrested in Arizona, where he was accused of stabbing another woman a few days after the homicide in New York. […]
The Rise and Fall of Art Mogul Louise Blouin
As the company struggled, she leveraged the Hamptons estate. The limited liability company associated with the main house, 376 Gin Lane, received a $15 million loan from Morgan Stanley in 2011, according to public records. At around the same time, the second house, 366 Gin Lane, got an $8.5 million infusion from Wells Fargo. In […]
2 Men Charged With Murder in Kansas City Super Bowl Parade Shooting
It began, prosecutors said, with one man accusing another of staring at him. Groups of men, who appeared to be strangers, exchanged angry words and threats. A female friend tried to intervene. And then, surrounded by thousands of people at a rally last week celebrating Kansas City’s Super Bowl victory, at least two men pulled […]
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Virginia High School’s Admissions Case on Race
The Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for the use of admissions criteria intended to diversify the student body at an elite public high school in Virginia, declining to revisit the role race may play in admissions months after it sharply curtailed affirmative action programs in higher education. In turning down a challenge to […]
How Sleep Affects Your Mood: The Link Between Insomnia and Mental Health
It started with mild anxiety. Emily, who asked to be identified only by her first name because she was discussing her mental health, had just moved to New York City after graduate school, to start a marketing job at a big law firm. She knew it was normal to feel a little on edge. But […]
Is Tom Sandoval of ‘Vanderpump Rules’ the Most Hated Man in America?
Contrary to a popular misconception, “Vanderpump” is not about Lisa Vanderpump, a former Bravo Housewife. It started as a show about waiters and bartenders who lived in crappy apartments around Hollywood and, for the most part, wanted to be actors. That dream didn’t work out, but they became reality-TV stars instead. For a while, this […]