Former President Gerald Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act 50 years ago. However, he did not make metric adoption mandatory, and the efforts fell flat. For a look at where metric measurements have ...

December 23, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the Metric Conversion Act, designed to bring US weights and measures in line with the rest of the world. The United States is one of the last holdouts ...

Berkeley’s office-to-residential conversion is part of a broader U.S. trend, with offices accounting for 24% of adaptive reuse units in 2024. AI Summary A seven-story, circa 1980s office building in ...

New report by WWF showcases concrete solutions to advance deforestation- and conversion-free supply chains. Numerous commitments and declarations have been made in recent years to advance ...

Season 2 of Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” has sparked plenty of debate — much of it centering on how the show depicts Jewish women. Critics have rightly called out the stereotypes: the no-nonsense, ...

India’s Supreme Court has quashed a criminal case of alleged religious conversion against the vice chancellor, director, and three officials of a Christian-run university in Uttar Pradesh, citing a ...

With Princeton University finally reinstating a standardized testing requirement, Columbia remains as the last totally test-optional Ivy League school. Princeton announced on Thursday that, starting ...

Princeton University announced this week that it will resume requiring standardized test scores for undergraduates seeking admission to the university beginning with the 2027-28 admission cycle. First ...

Princeton will require undergraduate applicants to submit SAT or ACT test scores beginning with the 2027–28 admission cycle, the University announced Thursday. The decision will end a seven-year stint ...

WASHINGTON — White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about President Donald Trump’s invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th century law that gives the ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word “insurrection” more ...