Food: Mostly Meatless: Green up Your Plate Without Totally Ditching the Meat, a New Cookbook from America’s Test Kitchen

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🍽️ Food: Mostly Meatless: Green Up Your Plate Without Totally Ditching the Meat, a new cookbook from America’s Test Kitchen, features mostly meatless recipes that taste, look and feel pretty meaty.

The theater is large. The Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! offers a reimagined portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln, depicting her as a woman who has developed an addiction to alcohol in her desperate pursuit of becoming a cabaret star. Cole Escola, who wrote the play and stars as Mary, discusses the show’s success with Fresh Air.

Stereolab returns with their first album in 15 years. Stephen and Robert talk about the group’s new music and the other best albums out this week.

Source: Harvard’s ability to enroll international students revoked. And, summer book releases

The Books We Love Series – Vol. 2: The View on Pee-Wee as Heirman: The Case for a Discriminating View on the Gaza Conflict

The books are available. There are several good books to be published this summer. NPR critics can’t wait to read 17 books that are part of the Books We Love series.

TV: The two-part HBO documentary Pee-wee as Himself features footage and thousands of photos from the late Paul Reubens’ life and career. Reubens is the performer who created the iconic Pee-wee Herman character.

The international students in the United States are wrestling with a dilemma regarding their views on the war in Gaza. Federal judges have blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to deport some noncitizen university students based on their comments about the war in Gaza. According to the government, it will continue to cancel some students’ visas because of national security concerns. Two international graduate students who were in the last weeks of their programs decided to speak out despite the risk of being deported or losing their visas, because of Adrian Florido of NPR. The two students discussed how that decision impacted their lives and plans for the future.

Source: Harvard’s ability to enroll international students revoked. And, summer book releases

The Trump Administration Recedes to the Laws of Higher Courts, with a case of Elias Rodriguez, for Killing an Israeli Embassy Employee in Washington, D.C.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to fire the heads of two independent agencies. Two people have been fired for being members of the Merit Systems Protection Board and the National Labor Relations Board. The temporary 6-3 ruling indicates how the higher court views the president’s power.

The Trump administration has revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students. The decision is communicated in a letter to the university. Harvard says the government’s actions are unlawful.

Elias Rodriguez, who is suspected of killing two Israeli Embassy employees outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., has been charged with first-degree murder, the murder of foreign officials and other crimes. Law enforcement officials are continuing to investigate the attack as a possible hate crime. Rodriguez flew to the nation’s capital from his home in Chicago on Tuesday, the day before the attack. He also purchased a ticket for the museum event, which was a mixer for young diplomats, just three hours before it began.

The Up First Project: Open Door 2024-2025 Study of the Number of International Students at Harvard University and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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Harvard relies on nearly 7,000 international students from more than 140 countries to come to its campuses. This is more than 25% of its total enrollment, according to 2024-2025 data from Harvard.

Yale University has more international scholars than any other university, with 3,639 from 129 countries.

“The experience of studying in the United States not only shapes the lives of individuals, but the future of our interconnected world,” said Scott Weinhold, with the Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in a statement announcing the Open Door findings. The relationship between the United States and international students is very important to relationships for bussiness and trade, science and innovation and government relations.

More than 378,000 jobs were supported by the international students at the U.S. college and university during the academic year.

According to Open Doors data, India sent the most international students to the U.S. for higher education.

In November, Open Doors® 2024 Report on International Educational Exchange announced that the total number of international students at U.S. colleges and universities reached an all-time high of more than 1.1 million students for the 2023 and 2024 year.

That’s what the nation’s oldest and wealthiest private university in the U.S. said in its lawsuit against the Trump administration, which sought to prevent the elite institution from enrolling thousands of international students.