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One person is dead and another is injured after an early-morning shooting at a dormitory complex at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, campus police said Friday. The suspect in the shooting remains at large and may still be on campus, police said.  Police did not say who the victims were or if they were students. The incident took …

Columbia University has agreed to pay $221 million (€188 million) to the federal government in a deal to settle the investigations into the school’s campus and restore federal funding, it announced on Wednesday. This includes a $200 million payment over three years to settle antisemitism investigations and a $21 million payout to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. “Importantly, the …

MOSCOW – Idaho (CBS2) — The Moscow Police Department has released hundreds of previously confidential documents from its investigation into the brutal murder of four University of Idaho students. This disclosure came just hours after the killer, Bryan Kohberger, was sentenced to multiple life terms for the crimes. According to the Idaho Statesman, the documents include a general summary of …

Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students in November 2022.  Kohberger accepted the plea deal earlier this month, copping to four counts of first-degree murder and an additional count of burglary. As part of the deal, Kohberger avoided the death penalty. A letter previously sent to the …

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University announced Wednesday it has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus. Under the agreement, the Ivy League school will pay a $200 million settlement over three years, the …

Columbia University has agreed to pay $200m (£147m) to the Trump administration over accusations that it had failed to protect its Jewish students. The settlement, which will be paid to the federal government over three years, was announced in a statement by the university on Wednesday. In exchange, the government has agreed to return some of the $400m in federal …

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Friends and relatives of the four University of Idaho students murdered in their rental home by Bryan Kohberger delivered powerful statements of love, anguish and condemnation as his sentencing hearing began Wednesday. “This world was a better place with her in it,” Scott Laramie, the stepfather of Madison Mogen, told the court. ”Karen and I are …

Columbia University announced Tuesday that it had punished students for participating in two school protests, including one at the library over its financial ties to Israel. The university said in a lengthy statement that it was punishing an unspecified number of students who participated in a May pro-Palestinian protest at the university’s library, where nearly 80 people were detained, and …

In March 2024, six months into Israel’s war in Gaza, education in the territory was decimated. Schools were closed – most had been turned into shelters – and all 12 of the strip’s universities were partially or fully destroyed. Against that backdrop, a prestigious American education journal decided to dedicate a special issue to “education and Palestine”. The Harvard Educational …

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Belly fat is a common problem for many people, but a certain kind of belly fat could be raising your risk of serious health problems, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and even cancer. Experts say it’s worth the effort to lose that deeper fat for a healthier, longer life. This type of dangerous fat, known …