The large majority of colleges across the country are starting the fall semester with remote classes, with less than a quarter of schools attempting primarily in-person instruction. This has radically transformed the college experience, including the social fabric created by clubs and activities that give students a feeling of community and help them develop a sense of autonomy.

The activities that a college offers play an increasingly important role in a student’s decision when picking a school. Nearly 50% of students currently...

Video that went viral Sunday showed police shooting Jacob Blake, a Black man who lives in Kenosha, Wis., seven times in the back. In the video, Mr. Blake is walking away from officers with weapons drawn as bystanders yell in the background.

Mr. Blake walks around a gray SUV, opens the driver’s side door of the vehicle and leans inside when an officer grabs the tank top he is wearing and shoots him from behind. Several officers have their weapons drawn. An officer can be heard screaming, “Drop the knife,” but it isn’t clear...

Many students who are being asked to cover fees for services they won’t be able to use during the pandemic are confused as to why their universities can’t use some of their endowments to cover the costs in the short term. WSJ Noted asked Liz Clark, vice president of policy and research at the National Association of College and University Business Officers, to explain. 

Endowment funds are similar, but not identical, to retirement funds, Clark says. They are pools of money, built over time, that are...

When Mariah Stephenson received the bill for her fall semester at Towson University in Maryland, she did a double take. Even though fall sports have been suspended, she saw a $499 athletics fee on her statement. 

Stephenson is already juggling interest payments on her student loans, rent for an off-campus apartment and a car payment. She transferred from a local community college in January because she wanted the on-campus experience, complete with attending football games, and the chance to make new friends in campus clubs....

Americans are spending less money on groceries than they were in July, data show, a sign that they are hurting for cash as the federal unemployment stimulus remains on hold for most recipients. The extra $600 in weekly benefits that people without jobs were receiving expired in July. President Trump signed an executive order earlier this month that would provide an additional $400 a week in benefits. The program has been delayed because it requires states to reconfigure their unemployment systems and chip in $100 per person. Currently, three states are distributing the funds. Walmart executives said consumers are nervous about their finances and job security in the absence of stimulus aid, leading to cutbacks in spending. The trend has prompted Associated Food Stores to offer discounts. Food makers Kellogg Co. and Kraft Heinz said they are also planning to bring back discounts aimed at budget-conscious shoppers, as they try to keep the momentum they saw in recent months....

While many young people have been deeply affected by the pandemic in ways that led them to defer important life decisions, some are leaping forward toward a significant financial milestone: owning a house. 

After an initial downturn, home buying has returned to pre-pandemic levels, with people under 35 representing 53% of the primary market, according to early data.

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Millennials are powering the resurgence of the housing market this year. Americans in their mid-20s to late-30s were long viewed as reluctant or unable to buy a home. But they accounted for half of all new home loans last year, for the first time. They consistently held above that level in the initial months of this year, according to Realtor.com.

TikTok Chief Executive Kevin Mayer said he is leaving the social-media platform. It comes as the Trump administration has pushed for TikTok’s owner, Chinese technology giant ByteDance Ltd., to sell its U.S. operations to an American buyer. Mayer, who joined TikTok about three months ago, wrote in a letter to staff: “I understand that the role that I signed up for—including running TikTok globally—will look very different as a result of the U.S. administration’s action to push for a selloff of the U.S. business… I’ve always been globally focused in my work, and leading a global team that includes TikTok U.S. was a big draw for me.”

Colleges are trying to prevent Covid-19 outbreaks on campus by ramping up testing and, in some cases, using apps to track symptoms and cameras to help monitor social distancing. But they’re grappling with how much information they should share about cases, creating a patchwork of reporting that some students say puts their health at risk.

The National Basketball Association postponed three playoff games on Wednesday after the Milwaukee Bucks staged a boycott in protest of the police shooting of a Black man in Kenosha, Wis., as the league’s players questioned their participation in the restarted season amid the social upheaval in the U.S.

The Bucks remained in their locker room and refused to take the court in the NBA’s Disney World “bubble,” and the Orlando Magic walked off the floor during warmups in a dramatic moment only minutes before Game 5 of their playoff...

Police arrested 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse in connection with the fatal shooting of two people and the wounding of another during a third night of protests in Kenosha, Wis. He was charged with first degree intentional homicide, according to police in Antioch, Ill., where Rittenhouse is a resident. The demonstrations began after Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot in the back by police on Sunday.

Police said they were investigating the fatal shooting of two people and the wounding of another during a third night of protests in Kenosha, Wis. The demonstrations began after Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot in the back by police on Sunday. What began as peaceful protests turned violent as the city experienced clashes with protesters, fires and looting. The protests have triggered gatherings of armed citizens, some of whom said they were protecting property against looting.