Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem emphasized that the Trump administration's recent ban on Harvard University enrolling international students should serve as a “warning” to other universities around the country. Noem, who ordered DHS to take Harvard off the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification on Thursday, was asked on Fox News... ... Read full Story
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The Trump administration intensified its battle with Harvard University on Thursday, revoking the storied college’s ability to enroll foreign students and demanding that any such current students transfer elsewhere for the next academic year or lose their visas. The decision was laid out in a letter from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to Harvard’s director... ... Read full Story
The Trump administration's Agriculture Secretary signaled she will be signing multiple waivers to let states ban junk food from food stamp programs, after signing a few this week. She described the effort as historic. ... Read full Story
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The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for President Trump to fire two Democratic-appointed independent agency leaders, for now, over the dissents of the court’s three liberal justices. The emergency order lifts a lower decision reinstating the two officials, handing the president a win in his quest to expand control over all aspects of the federal bureaucracy. But... ... Read full Story
President Trump said Thursday that autism must not occur naturally, citing figures inflating the spike in autism and suggesting the administration's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission could provide answers. “When you hear 10,000, it was 1 in 10,000, and now it's 1 in 31 for autism, I think that's just a terrible thing. It... ... Read full Story
Gov. Kelly Ayotte signs bills banning sanctuary cities in New Hampshire, highlighting public safety and cooperation with federal immigration efforts as priorities. ... Read full Story
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 24, 2025 is:
limn \LIM\ verb
Limn is a formal verb most often used especially in literary contexts to mean "to describe or portray," as in "a novel that limns the life of 1930s coastal Louisiana." It can also mean "to outline in clear sharp detail," as in "a tree limned by moonlight," and "to draw or paint on a surface," as in "limning a portrait."
// The documentary limns the community's decades-long transformation.
// We admired every detail of the portrait, gracefully limned by the artist's brush.
"... the story of Ronald Reagan's jelly beans is not simply about his love of a cute candy. It speaks to how he weaned himself from tobacco, judged people's character, and deflected scrutiny. It limns the role of the sugar industry and food marketing. And it demonstrates how food can be a powerful communications tool. Reagan's jelly beans sent a message to voters: 'I like the same food you do, so vote for me.'" — Alex Prud’homme, Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House, 2023
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Limn is a word with lustrous origins, tracing ultimately to the Latin verb illuminare, meaning "to illuminate." Its use in English dates back to the Middle Ages, when it was used for the action of illuminating (that is, decorating) medieval manuscripts with gold, silver, or brilliant colors. William Shakespeare extended the term to painting in his poem "Venus and Adonis": "Look when a painter would surpass the life / In limning out a well-proportioned steed …" Over time, limn gained a sense synonymous with delineate meaning "to outline in clear sharp detail" before broadening further to mean "to describe or portray." Such limning is often accomplished by words, but not always: actors are often said to limn their characters through their portrayals, while musicians (or their instruments) may limn emotions with the sounds they make.