This is an edition of  The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. When Hamas stormed across the Gaza border on October 7, 2023, it knew exactly what it was doing. The group […]

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country. The Department of Homeland Security announced the action Thursday, saying Harvard has created an unsafe campus environment by allowing “anti-American, pro-terrorist […]

A man draped in the Israeli flag, bearing a cross and the name “Jesus” at its center, gestures as Metropolitan Police officers secure the area outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Two Israeli embassy staffers were shot dead late Wednesday by a gunman who allegedly shouted “free Palestine.” Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images […]

Comedian Michael Palascak is returning to his Midwest roots. The former Illinois resident will perform a night of standup comedy at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 24, at The Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin. “It’s one of the first larger-venue shows of my life,” he said. “It’s exciting.” That won’t change his act, however. “It’s a […]

A team of reporters from the nonprofit journalism organizations Invisible Institute and ProPublica have reviewed more than 300 sexual assault and misconduct complaints that were filed over the past decade against Chicago police officers. But experts say that’s likely an undercount. We need your help to understand the scope and scale of this issue. We […]

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the US criminal justice system. The request from child welfare authorities seemed harmless enough: Order a newborn drug test. Dr. Sharon Ostfeld-Johns and her hospital colleagues had done it countless times before. This time, however, the request gave the doctor […]

American Masters, an award-winning documentary series in its 39th season on PBS, promises to tell “compelling, unvarnished stories” about the nation’s most important cultural figures. The program’s most recent story, though—Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse, about the cartoonist-author of Maus, the Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel depicting the Holocaust, and a self-described “poster boy for […]

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from carrying out two plans announced in March that sought to […]

The U.S. Supreme Court Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images “Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself from participating in the case. As a professor at the University of Notre Dame, she was involved with a legal clinic that advised St. Isidore.” A deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court effectively blocked the creation of […]

Senior pitcher Jackson Davenport isn’t bothered by the fact that he has played for four coaches in his four seasons at Griffith. He even embraces it. “Every coach has something you can learn from them,” Davenport said. “So instead of being down about it, I always stay positive about having four coaches because I learn […]