‐At dawn on Wednesday 17 April, a small group of students pitched their tents at Columbia University, demonstrating against Israeli military action in Gaza and calling on their university to stop doing business with companies they see as supporting (...)
A leading California university has canceled its graduation ceremony as protests over Gaza continue to spread on college campuses across the US.
The University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles cited "new safety measures" in disbanding the (...)
The leader of the US House of Representatives was heckled in a tense visit to Columbia University as protests against the war in Gaza continue to spread across US campuses.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Columbia officials had lost (...)
A Chinese student in the US has been sentenced to nine months in prison for stalking and threatening a female Chinese student who put up pro-democracy fliers on campus.
The fliers, put up at the Berklee College of Music in Boston in late 2022, read: (...)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said last week that she believes international courts could interpret Israel's actions in Gaza as a genocide, according to a video posted by a GBH News reporter, after noting she thinks "what Israel is doing is wrong."
"If you (...)
The first man to receive a genetically modified kidney transplant from a pig has been discharged from hospital.
The 62-year-old was sent home on Wednesday, two weeks after the ground-breaking surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
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Last month, Yale University issued a formal apology for the links its early leaders and benefactors had with slavery.
Since then, one name that has come under intense scrutiny in India is that of Elihu Yale, the man after whom the Ivy League (...)
The European Parliament has approved the world's first comprehensive framework for constraining the risks of artificial intelligence (AI).
The sector has seen explosive growth — driving huge profits but also stoking fears about bias, privacy and (...)
An Air National Guard member has pleaded guilty to posting dozens of classified documents online in one of highest-profile intelligence leaks in recent years.
Prosecutors recommend that Jack Teixeira, 22, be sentenced to up to 16 years and eight (...)
Travelers who arrived in Tokyo in April 2023 to experience the city's famous cherry tree petals were faced with quite a surprise: instead of blooming as forecast in late March, the pink sakura appeared 10 days earlier than predicted.
This was no (...)
Donald Trump has urged the US Supreme Court to put a "swift and decisive end" to his exclusion from Colorado's presidential primary ballot.
In a court filing on Thursday, Trump said "chaos and bedlam" would be unleashed if other states followed (...)
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is taking a new step to address its overworked and chronically understaffed air traffic controller corps, CNN has learned.
The agency is expected to announce this week that it is convening a special panel to (...)
US President Joe Biden and his would-be challenger Donald Trump have been attacking one another as the 2024 White House campaign heats up.
Biden said part of his motivation to run for a second term next year is to thwart the Republican, adding that (...)
A 44-year-old American visiting the Bahamas from Boston was killed in a shark attack while paddleboarding near a beach resort Monday, according to local authorities.
The woman had traveled to the Bahamas with a male relative, the Royal Bahamas (...)
President Joe Biden told Democratic donors Tuesday he wasn't confident he'd be seeking another term if his predecessor Donald Trump wasn't running for the White House, a notably candid assessment of his reelection rationale as he enters a likely (...)
An elite law firm has rescinded job offers for three Ivy League students associated with letters expressing support for Palestinians that blamed Israel for the Hamas attacks.
Davis Polk & Wardwell said the views "are in direct contravention of our (...)
Environmental lawyer and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Monday his independent candidacy for president, officially ending his effort to defeat President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary in favor of a long-shot general (...)
Hurricane Lee is expected to continue strengthening Friday after quickly morphing into a powerful Category 5 storm that is now packing destructive maximum sustained winds of 165 mph as it spins hundreds of miles east of the Caribbean, the National (...)
There's a new coronavirus variant topping the leaderboard in the United States: EG.5.
Nationally, EG.5 is causing about 17% of new Covid-19 cases in the country, compared with 16% for the next most common lineage, XBB.1.16, according to the latest (...)
Tens of millions of Americans were confronted with a one-two punch of brutally hot temperatures and oppressive humidity on Friday as an unrelenting heatwave settled over the Midwest and East Coast and was expected to persist into the weekend.
More (...)
Twitter's boss has unveiled the social media site's new logo, featuring a white X on a black background, which will replace its bluebird.
In a tweet on Monday morning, Linda Yaccarino said "X is here! Let's do this."
"Tweets" will also be replaced, (...)
Wesleyan University, an elite US liberal arts college, said it will no longer grant preference to student applicants with family or donor ties.
The Connecticut institution said it was "important" to end legacy admissions, which have long been (...)
An investigation into the causes of the Titan submersible disaster has been opened by the US Coast Guard.
Chief investigator Cpt Jason Neubauer said its priority is recovering debris from the sub, and precautions will be taken in case human remains (...)
The US Navy detected sounds "consistent with an implosion" shortly after OceanGate's Titan submersible lost contact, a navy official has said.
Five people were aboard the vessel when it went missing during a dive to the Titanic wreck on Sunday.
The (...)
Investigators are continuing to scour the ocean floor for any insight into how a "catastrophic implosion" killed all five passengers of a Titanic-bound submersible that suddenly lost communication with its mother ship over the weekend, officials (...)