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UC president recommends UCLA pay Cal Berkeley $10 million per year for 6 years
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of California Board of Regents is expected to accept a recommendation that UCLA pay University of California at Berkeley $10 million a year for six years as a result of the Bruins' upcoming move to the Big Ten and the demise of the Pac-12. The...
Several people detained as protesters block parking garage at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Police detained several people Thursday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after demonstrators blocked a parking garage in their ongoing protest movement connected to the Israel-Hamas war. Tensions have ratcheted up in standoffs with protesters on...
Harris congratulates HBCU graduates in video message for graduation season
WASHINGTON (AP) — Graduating students at historically Black colleges and universities across the country are receiving well wishes via a video greeting from a prominent fellow alumna: Vice President Kamala Harris. “As a proud HBCU graduate, I know firsthand the value of attending...
Mississippi governor signs law to set a new funding formula for public schools
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed legislation that will change the way the state pays for public schools, ditching a formula that brought political pressure on lawmakers because they usually budgeted less money than required. Republican Reeves signed the...
Arizona State University scholar on leave after confrontation with woman at pro-Israel rally
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State University officials say a postdoctoral research scholar remains on leave as the school investigates his videotaped confrontation with a hijab-wearing woman at a pro-Israel rally last weekend. Sunday’s event was held near the university’s Tempe...
Militants bomb a girls school in northwestern Pakistan, once a Taliban stronghold. No one was harmed
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Militants detonated a bomb at a girls school in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country's volatile northwest, badly damaging the structure, police said Thursday. No one was harmed in the overnight attack. There was no immediate...
Xavier University cancels UN ambassador’s commencement speech after student outcry
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Xavier University of Louisiana has reversed course and canceled Saturday's planned commencement address by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield after news of her appearance sparked outrage among some students. University President Reynold...
Ohio attorney general warns student protesters in masks could face felony charges under anti-KKK law
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's top lawyer has advised the state's public universities that a law written to deter Ku Klux Klan demonstrations could be used to impose felony charges on students who wear face coverings while protesting the war in Gaza. In a letter sent Monday, after...
Fiji's ex-leader, Frank Bainimarama, sentenced to prison for interfering in police investigation
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Former Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison for interfering in a criminal investigation while he headed the government of his South Pacific island nation. Acting High Court of Fiji Chief Justice Salesi Temo...
Police clear pro-Palestinian protest camp and arrest 33 at DC campus as mayor's hearing is canceled
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police used pepper spray to clear a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and arrested dozens of demonstrators on Wednesday just as city officials were set to appear before hostile lawmakers in Congress to account for their handling of the 2-week-old...
