LOS ANGELES — It was an open secret at Brentwood School, a $44,000-a-year private academy in Los Angeles with a roster of famous alumni, that science teacher Aimee Palmitessa flirted with male students. She once posed with kids in her class wearing matching T-shirts that said “AP Chem 2014 has me … (Mg,Fe)₇Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂” — a reference…

Ricardo Duchesne is a professor at the University of New Brunswick, a publicly funded institution and Canada’s oldest English-language university. He teaches undergraduate sociology classes, holds tenure and has been quoted in The New York Times on immigration. He is also a white supremacist. Duchesne’s writings are filled with racist conspiracy theories, and he is…

A year after a record number of Kentucky teachers ran for state Legislature and mass protests shut down schools across the state, two educators are setting their sights on more powerful statewide offices. Jacqueline Coleman, a high school assistant principal, and Kelsey Hayes Coots, a middle school teacher, both participated in last spring’s protests, during which…

A new report details the negative consequences suffered by black women and girls when people perceive them as older than their white peers. Researchers at Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality reported their findings Wednesday after speaking to groups of black girls and women across the country about whether their real-life experiences reflected what…

President Donald Trump unveiled his vision for a major reform to the legal immigration system Thursday, calling for the slashing of family-sponsored visas in favor of those for highly skilled and educated workers. The White House is betting that the idea of slowing family-based migration while raising the number of high-skilled migrants will unify the…

The Department of Homeland Security has begun transporting undocumented immigrant families to cities beyond the U.S.-Mexico border “due to capacity limitations” at border patrol stations, a Customs and Border Protection official confirmed on Friday. Since Dec. 21, the official said, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released roughly 180,000 migrants into the U.S. interior, transporting them by…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Friday attacked the GOP when she claimed it “doesn’t care about babies at all — especially brown, black or poor ones.” The lawmaker doubled down on her criticism of Alabama’s strict new abortion law in a series of tweets in which she accused “the GOP extremists trying to invoke ‘the…

The syndicated game show “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” is ending after 20 years on TV and nearly 3,000 episodes, Variety first reported Friday.  “‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ will not return in national syndication for the 2019-20 season,” a representative told Variety. The popular game show debuted on ABC in 1999 with…

The Trump administration says it has terminated an agreement with California that would have directed nearly $1 billion toward the state’s high-speed rail project. The U.S. Transportation Department said Thursday in a statement that it would “deobligate” $928,620,000 in funds for the project, saying the California High-Speed Rail Authority “repeatedly failed to comply” with the agreement…

We finally have some bipartisan agreement on a very important issue facing America: Who should sit on the Iron Throne? A recent survey just ahead of the “Game of Thrones” finale by consulting firm Firehouse Strategies and Optimus found that 50 percent of those polled believe that Jon Snow should take the throne. That broke down to…