A descendant of Protestant Reformer John Knox, Witherspoon was educated at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and afterwards served as a Presbyterian pastor.
His writings brought him to the attention...
Spanish and French farmers have blocked roads along their mutual border through the Pyrenees mountains this week in protest of environmental policies just ahead of the upcoming EU elections.
In response to the growing worry among voters about immigration in the 2024 presidential contest, President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday...
It was an unusually warm day in the seaside town of Portoroz, and Leida Ruvina was growing suspicious. The doctoral program she had been enrolled in for weeks had all the signs of a sham—the campus was a small, shabby building rented out from a tourist school and the French translation for “Euro-Mediterranean” in the university’s seal was misspelled.
Ruvina raised her hand to ask the university’s president what was going on, and he assured her that everything was in order. He then complimented her on her fluent English and offered to advise her on her dissertation thesis. “If you want, I can be your mentor,” she recalled him telling her in an awkward exchange as he steered the conversation away from questions about the university’s legitimacy.
In a world increasingly shaped by global health emergencies, it seems like we’re seeing the same playbook unfold again—this time with the virus known as monkeypox.
North Dakota officials voiced urgent concerns Wednesday about the escalating border crisis, highlighting increased crime, drug activity, and homelessness impacting northern border communities as...
