WASHINGTON -- The US Department of Education is paying more than $7 million a month to employees it has forced to go on leave, according to analysis from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, the union that represents department employees.The payments could continue for years...

Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research is set to shutter at the end of June following a deluge of reporting on alleged financial mismanagement, poor leadership, and low research output. Similar academic centers hosted on college campuses across the United States share many of the same ...