Australia will restrict foreign students from bringing partners and children, and reduce net overseas migration to 225,000 by 2028 from current levels of around 300,000. The policy change, announced by Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, follows pressure from the hard-right One Nation party and concerns about housing, infrastructure, and social cohesion amid record migration levels since the 2022 border reopening.
A high school senior in Upstate New York was suspended for bringing coffee to class, which she characterized as civil disobedience to protest a new food and drink policy. The student discovered the district had failed to hold a required public hearing before adopting the code of conduct, prompting the district to acknowledge the procedural error and schedule a retroactive hearing.