A Hamas delegation arrives in Cairo for cease-fire talks, though Israel opts out.

I wish Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis had shown a quarter as much contempt for Donald Trump as they did for each other. Oh, they faulted Trump for not appearing onstage in Des Moines on Wednesday for the final Republican presidential debate before the Iowa caucuses. He arrogantly skipped it,…

After the Supreme Court banned race-based affirmative action last year, many people in higher education worried that it would be only the first in a series of decisions that reduced diversity at selective schools. In particular, university administrators and professors thought the court might soon ban admissions policies that gave…

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a pair of cases that could fundamentally change discourse on the internet by defining, for the first time, what rights social media companies have to limit what their users can post. The court’s decision, expected by June, will almost certainly be…

The injuries were sometimes horrendous. In a 1971 preseason game, he snapped the ball for a field-goal attempt and, as he recalled, “the right side of our line collapsed on my right knee.” He said an arthrogram disclosed five ligament tears, and he was told his season and maybe his…

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Friday that the American government now considers new Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories to be “inconsistent with international law,” marking a reversal of a policy set under the Trump administration and a return to a decades-long U.S. position on the contentious subject….