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The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, a program the Trump administration has called 'America's first nationwide school choice program,' is set to begin in January 2027, with a Jan. 1 deadline to opt in for 2027 participation. Colorado Gov.…
2026-10-20 · 4 MIN READThree billionaire-backed political action committees spent more than $145,000 to help a 23-year-old gas station cashier defeat West Virginia Del. Vernon Criss in the 2026 Republican primary, according to a ProPublica and Mountain State…
2026-10-19 · 4 MIN READThe American Athletic Conference said it decided to continue the University of Texas at San Antonio's home football game against Navy on October 17 after airman Tech Sgt Ian Patterson died in a pregame rappelling fall at the Alamodome,…
2026-10-19 · 6 MIN READElon Musk pledged Monday to gift one SpaceX share to every child in America next year, a distribution that could be worth roughly $10 billion at Friday's closing price and U.S. Census Bureau data on children under 18. The announcement…
2026-10-19 · 3 MIN READOregon Governor Tina Kotek called an armed bystander's intervention heroic after Thursday's shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, saying, "Your actions carry a heavy emotional burden," as the school district announced all Bend…
2026-10-16 · 4 MIN READThe Associated Press, citing a law enforcement official briefed on the shooting who spoke on the condition of anonymity, reported Friday that the 16-year-old who opened fire at Silver Rail elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday…
2026-10-16 · 3 MIN READA 16-year-old forced his way into Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon by shooting at the building's locked doors, then fatally shot three children and a teacher before being killed by a community member who…
2026-10-16 · 3 MIN READThree children and one teacher were killed in a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, according to local police. The suspect, a 16-year-old who lived in Bend, was shot and killed by a community member who…
2026-10-16 · 3 MIN READThree children and a teacher were among five people found dead after a shooting Oct. 15 at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, authorities said. The suspected shooter, a 16-year-old Bend resident, was also found dead at the…
2026-10-15 · 4 MIN READMany University of South Carolina students, including many Republicans, told The Wall Street Journal's chief political correspondent Josh Dawsey they were disillusioned with rising gas prices, the war in Iran and President Trump's second…
2026-10-13 · 4 MIN READThe Justice Department has warned the American Bar Association it may face an antitrust investigation if the group does not change accreditation rules limiting how much part-time adjunct professors can teach first-year law students,…
2026-10-13 · 3 MIN READCobb County police on Tuesday identified the man who died after being ejected from a rollercoaster at Six Flags Over Georgia as 42-year-old Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, an Atlanta educator and father of a 10-year-old daughter.
2026-10-13 · 3 MIN READTwo people were killed and 35 injured in an early-morning mass shooting at a homecoming block party in Vienna, Georgia, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Sunday. The shooting occurred at 1:30 a.m. in the city of about 3,000 located…
2026-10-04 · 3 MIN READCornell University has banned all parties at fraternity houses for the remainder of the academic year after a woman filed a lawsuit alleging she was drugged and raped by several men at a 2024 party at a Cornell fraternity house.
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The Chi Phi fraternity chapter at Cornell has been disbanded, according to the North American Interfraternity Conference, after a 20-year-old student known as Jane Doe said seven of its members drugged and gang-raped her in 2024. The…
2026-10-12 · 4 MIN READThe Trump administration is funneling $100 million into educating STEM researchers who are U.S. citizens, NPR reported on October 9, 2026. The allocation arrives after other changes under the Trump administration have already forced…
2026-10-09 · 3 MIN READHundreds of Jackson State University students marched through the Jackson, Mississippi, campus on Wednesday for a Blackout rally organized to demand transparency in the mysterious deaths of young Black Mississippians, including 18-year-old…
2026-10-09 · 4 MIN READDeveloper Tishman Speyer has taken over the ground lease for Manhattan's Chrysler Building from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a private college, according to BBC News. Tishman Speyer and its partners have committed…
2026-10-08 · 3 MIN READTens of thousands of students and hundreds of thousands of parents, grandparents and teachers have marched across France in a youth-led protest movement over the state of the country's high schools, with the interior minister suspending…
2026-10-08 · 5 MIN READThe Swedish Academy on Thursday awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature to Anne Carson, a 76-year-old Canadian poet, essayist and translator. The academy cited her 'for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the…
2026-10-08 · 3 MIN READWashington state voters will decide in November whether to repeal the state's 9.9% income tax on earnings above $1 million, a measure signed into law by Governor Bob Ferguson in March and now facing a conservative-backed ballot initiative…
2026-10-07 · 3 MIN READThe Education Department released its 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection on Aug. 31, six months later than initially promised, drawing on more than 97,000 public schools and covering about 49.7 million public school students. Independent…
2026-10-07 · 4 MIN READAustin Davis, a 26-year-old poet and advocate in suburban Phoenix, has become the unofficial hotline for homeless families across the metropolitan area, ProPublica reported. His phone receives hundreds of pleas for help from parents who…
2026-10-07 · 4 MIN READThe US Department of Justice has charged 30-year-old Washington state resident James Cody Bryant with conspiracy to murder persons in a foreign country, alleging he aided the February mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.
2026-10-06 · 3 MIN READCornell's board of trustees has appointed Sally Yates, a former deputy attorney general in the Obama administration, to lead an independent review of how the university investigates sexual misconduct complaints, the board announced on…
2026-10-06 · 4 MIN READA civil lawsuit filed last month over an alleged October 2024 sexual assault at Cornell University names seven Chi Phi fraternity members, the fraternity chapter, a local bar, the plaintiff's own sorority, and the university itself as…
2026-10-06 · 4 MIN READWolfgang Pauli's 1930 prediction of an undetectable particle — which he called 'a terrible thing' — opened a 96-year arc of neutrino research that culminated Tuesday in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' 2026 Nobel Prize in physics to…
2026-10-06 · 5 MIN READPolice fired tear gas to control crowds in Paris and other French cities on Tuesday as an estimated 256,000 people rallied nationwide in support of high school students demanding more education funding, the French Interior Ministry said.…
2026-10-06 · 4 MIN READThe Treasury Department in late September enacted two changes that converted Trump Accounts from a voluntary child investment program with about 7.2 million sign-ups into a near-universal vehicle. Under new rules that took effect, more…
2026-10-05 · 4 MIN READStudent activists vandalized Cornell University's Day Hall early Monday, smashing a glass door and painting protest messages in red on the walls surrounding the entrance. The activists cited a civil lawsuit alleging a 2024 fraternity-house…
2026-10-05 · 3 MIN READA school bus carrying 37 high school students rolled over in Winter Haven, Florida, on Monday morning after a Chevy Malibu crossed into its lane, killing a 10th-grade girl and one person who was in the Jeep, according to the Polk County…
2026-10-05 · 4 MIN READUS public schools recorded nearly 12,000 book bans during the 2025-2026 school year, the highest annual total since the free-expression group PEN America began tracking removals in 2021, according to a report the organization released…
2026-10-05 · 3 MIN READThe Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia closed its doors September 30, ending a nearly 200-year run as the oldest natural history museum in the Americas. Drexel University, which assumed financial responsibility for the institution…
2026-10-03 · 3 MIN READA September lawsuit alleges that seven members of Cornell University's Chi Phi fraternity gang-raped an undergraduate woman over several hours, according to The Wall Street Journal. The complaint includes a screenshot of a group chat…
2026-10-03 · 4 MIN READThe Department of Justice on Thursday accused UCLA School of Law of illegally considering race in admissions, alleging the school discriminated against white and Asian American students by favoring Black and Hispanic applicants in its…
2026-10-02 · 4 MIN READThe Justice Department filed suit Thursday against the University of Delaware, challenging its in-state tuition policy for certain undocumented immigrants. It is the 26th such lawsuit the Trump administration has brought and the first case…
2026-10-02 · 3 MIN READThe lawyer for a woman who alleges she was raped by seven men at a Cornell University fraternity house in 2024 said Friday that his client is "under siege" as internet users attempt to identify her. Thomas Giuffra told CNN the woman, known…
2026-10-02 · 5 MIN READNew York Governor Kathy Hochul criticized Cornell University for how the school handled an alleged sexual assault case, The Guardian reported in a video published October 2, 2026. Hochul used the public remarks to announce she had…
2026-10-02 · 3 MIN READNew York Governor Kathy Hochul, who on Thursday announced the appointment of state Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor, spoke alongside James at a Friday press conference in New York City about the alleged 2024 gang-rape…
2026-10-02 · 4 MIN READThe Student Assembly of Cornell University convened a public hearing to address anger and concern about student safety and rape culture, the BBC reported on October 2. The hearing was held in response to an investigation into the alleged…
2026-10-02 · 4 MIN READKathy Hochul, New York's governor, on Thursday named state Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor to investigate the alleged 2024 gang-rape of a former Cornell University student at a campus fraternity, escalating state…
2026-10-02 · 3 MIN READA woman who has accused several men of raping her at Cornell University in 2024 was failed by the school's health system, her lawyer said. Jane Doe, as she is known in court filings, said she told a university doctor two days after the…
2026-10-01 · 5 MIN READNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday announced the city's first-ever municipal strategy to address antisemitism, a 33-page plan that expands security measures for synagogues and increases the focus on Jewish history in public…
2026-10-01 · 4 MIN READA first-year college student known as Mary told BBC News she was sexually assaulted at a fraternity party, woke with bruises and bite marks over her body, and was told by police they lacked probable cause for an arrest, leaving the campus…
2026-09-30 · 4 MIN READCitadel CEO Ken Griffin is donating $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University—$2 billion to launch a new Miami campus focused on technology and innovation and $1 billion to the school's Pittsburgh home—making it the largest single…
2026-09-30 · 3 MIN READAs CBS News New York published excerpts of a Cornell student's November 2024 campus police interviews in which she said of a later part of the evening, "I can say with 100% confidence I was raped," Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew…
2026-09-30 · 5 MIN READCornell University is facing intense criticism and calls for an independent investigation over its handling of a 2024 sexual assault case, with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday calling for Cornell's board of trustees to appoint…
2026-09-30 · 5 MIN READThe U.S. Department of Education has extended by three months the enrollment window for federal student loan borrowers to sign up for autopay and receive a 1% interest rate reduction. Borrowers who enroll by Dec. 31, or who are already…
2026-09-29 · 3 MIN READA former Cornell University student identified in court papers as Jane Doe has filed a civil lawsuit alleging she was drugged and raped by seven students at a fraternity house in October 2024. The Trump administration this week overturned…
2026-09-29 · 4 MIN READNew York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday called for an independent, outside-counsel review of Cornell University's response to a 2024 alleged gang-rape of a female student by seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity. The call follows the…
2026-09-29 · 3 MIN READCBS News on Tuesday published text messages reportedly exchanged between an unnamed defendant and the woman who alleges she was gang-raped at Cornell University's Chi Phi fraternity in October 2024. The texts surfaced a day after Tompkins…
2026-09-29 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Treasury Department will automatically enroll more than 60 million additional children under 18 in the government's Trump Accounts program as soon as this week, replacing a structure that previously required parents or guardians…
2026-09-29 · 3 MIN READRep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) filed three federal bills Sept. 16, 2026, that would fund teacher training, family literacy programs, and dual-language immersion for English learners in Arizona. The legislation came the same day Arizona…
2026-09-28 · 4 MIN READNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration told a court this month it "supports reopening of the walkway through the Columbia University Campus to the public," backing a more-than-year-old neighborhood lawsuit that seeks to undo…
2026-09-28 · 3 MIN READA Cornell University-convened task force on sexual assault found that 35% of women in undergraduate school reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact during a 2025 survey. The finding emerged as the Tompkins County, N.Y., District…
2026-09-28 · 3 MIN READCornell University said Monday that "none of the individuals charged were offered the opportunity to write essays as a sole consequence of their involvement," directly disputing a key allegation in a civil lawsuit filed September 16 by a…
2026-09-28 · 8 MIN READThe University of Arizona has suspended its Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity chapter after an investigation found new members were allegedly forced to swallow live goldfish and consume large quantities of alcohol during a fall 2025 pledging…
2026-09-28 · 3 MIN READPennsylvania authorities have charged 13 current and former Penn State students in a campuswide cocaine distribution ring that authorities have dubbed "Operation Drugs Unlimited," according to criminal complaints filed by Pennsylvania…
2026-09-28 · 4 MIN READLonnie Bunch, the outgoing secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, received a standing ovation Friday at the National Museum of African American History and Culture as he defended the organization against political pressure from the…
2026-09-26 · 3 MIN READTikTok and its parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay Alabama $100 million and impose new restrictions on children's use of the platform in a settlement reached Friday, just before a jury trial was set to begin on Monday. The deal…
2026-09-26 · 4 MIN READAustralian private colleges are offering discounted fees and expedited enrollment to rush students into the graduate diploma of management (learning) before the federal government deregisters the course on October 5, according to Guardian…
2026-09-26 · 4 MIN READNinety-two lawmakers in the House and Senate urged the Department of Health and Human Services on Friday to release roughly $100 million in congressionally appropriated teen pregnancy prevention funding that remains unspent less than a…
2026-09-25 · 3 MIN READThe National Center for Education Statistics has been cut from about 100 staff to 12 after the Trump administration fired nearly half of the Department of Education's workforce and allowed the Department of Government Efficiency to cancel…
2026-09-25 · 4 MIN READA growing number of private colleges, from Carroll College in Montana to Carleton College in Minnesota, are responding to families' anxieties about college costs by slashing tuition, eliminating student loans from aid packages, or offering…
2026-09-25 · 5 MIN READNPR found that the Trump administration's 18-month effort to dismantle the Education Department has cost an unknown amount of taxpayer dollars and made the agency's work more complex and potentially inefficient, despite the…
2026-09-24 · 6 MIN READThe Justice Department on Tuesday found that the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine discriminated against White and Asian applicants by favoring Black and Hispanic candidates in admissions, the Trump…
2026-09-23 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Department of Education released the 2027-2028 Free Application for Federal Student Aid on Wednesday — the earliest date the form has ever opened — with officials saying the redesigned application takes about 15 minutes to…
2026-09-23 · 3 MIN READTwo Philadelphia advocacy groups announced over the weekend that they were cutting ties with longtime member Hannah Gann after she admitted during an in-person meeting that she had lied about being Palestinian, Tunisian and Black. Gann…
2026-09-23 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2025 national youth behavior survey found that 33% of high schoolers reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, down from 42% in 2021. The biennial report emphasizes…
2026-09-23 · 3 MIN READPhil Knight, chair and cofounder of Nike Inc, and his wife, Penny, have donated $1bn to the University of Oregon to fund a new engineering school in Eugene, in what is believed to be the largest known donation to a flagship university. The…
2026-09-23 · 3 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal's "What's News" newsletter distributed Tuesday reported that Meta shares surged to their biggest one-day percentage gain in more than a year the prior trading session after rapid adoption of the Facebook parent's AI…
2026-09-22 · 5 MIN READThree UK women in their early 20s have described to the BBC how they navigate rent, bills and job searches without the financial support that many of their peers receive from family. The accounts, published Tuesday by BBC Your Voice,…
2026-09-22 · 4 MIN READA Cornell University faculty committee released a more-than-200-page report on Tuesday declaring an "unprecedented crisis" in American higher education, attributing the moment to disrupted federal funding, an erosion in public trust and…
2026-09-22 · 3 MIN READBritish Columbia filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in San Francisco federal court on Monday, alleging the company could have prevented the February mass shooting at a school in Tumbler Ridge if it had warned police that the…
2026-09-22 · 3 MIN READThe San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Monday that felony charges against five Stanford University students over a June 2024 campus protest against Israel's attacks on Gaza were…
2026-09-21 · 3 MIN READThe California attorney general's office on Monday dismissed all criminal charges against five Stanford University students who had faced felony counts and up to $329,000 each in potential restitution over a 2024 pro-Palestinian campus…
2026-09-21 · 5 MIN READThe University of Southern California announced Monday that retiring Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, a Democrat, will serve as the Warschaw Chair at USC Dornsife's Center for the Political Future, working alongside Republican strategist Mike…
2026-09-21 · 3 MIN READProgressive candidates beat opponents backed by or aligned with Moms for Liberty in school board races across Florida in August, in many cases reversing gains the group made in 2022 and flipping the school board in Sarasota — the home…
2026-09-18 · 4 MIN READThe Trump administration has proposed eliminating a Head Start rule that allows centers to reserve enrollment slots for homeless children, according to NPR reporting. The change is part of a broader proposal to consolidate a 133-page list…
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