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Otto Warmbier’s family rebukes Trump’s defense of Kim Jong Un: ‘Kim and his evil regime are responsible for unimaginable cruelty’

August 22, 2019 at 10:37 a.m.

The parents of Otto Warmbier, the American college student who died after being detained for 17 months in North Korea, on Friday directly blamed leader Kim Jong Un for their...

Colleges can get free doses of naloxone for students overdosing on opioids

June 5, 2018 at 6:50 a.m.

Colleges will be able to get several free doses of a drug that can reverse opioid overdoses, a sign of the widening impact of the deadly epidemic and increased efforts...

Professor who called for ‘muscle’ at student protest treated unfairly, report says

August 21, 2019 at 6:23 p.m.

After an investigation of the firing of Melissa Click, a communications professor who became a divisive national symbol during student protests at the University of Missouri last fall, a committee...

This Nov. 10, 201, file photo shows the Harvard Law School seal that is attached to a sign on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass.

Harvard Law shield tied to slavery disappearing, after corporation vote

May 17, 2019 at 10:50 p.m.

The symbol of Harvard Law School is already changing after the Harvard Corporation voted Monday to accept a committee's recommendation to remove the shield used for 80 years because it...

Students celebrate after University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe's resignation announcement Nov. 9, 2015, at the school in Columbia, Mo.

University of Missouri president, chancellor resign amid racial tensions

August 21, 2019 at 5:58 p.m.

After weeks of escalating student protests and the threat of a football team boycott, the president of the University of Missouri system resigned on Monday, forced out amid complaints that...

A tool once commonly used by students at the National Cryptologic School to diagram communications networks. The secretive school is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

The secret school that trains ‘silent warriors.’ (Hint: It helps the NSA.)

June 21, 2019 at 5:52 p.m.

Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping center one day: "Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use...

Women are pulling one another into the tech world

June 15, 2018 at 12:09 p.m.

"I was frustrated when I went to tech events," Shannon Turner wrote recently for Women in Tech. "I'd be one of the only women in the room and felt outnumbered...

Students play football at the Quad, on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Boston, and much of the Northeast, is being hit with heavy snow from Winter Storm Juno.

Harvard formally bans sexual relationships between professors and undergrads

June 21, 2019 at 4:38 a.m.

Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences now formally bans sexual relationships between professors and undergraduate students. That's not because they think there's all kinds of professor-student dating on campus:...

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