International

Western Kentucky University students vote to give blacks free tuition

The student government at Western Kentucky University on Tuesday voted in favor of giving free tuition to black students. The school’s Student Government Association passed a resolution by 19-10 supporting slavery reparations for black students in the form of free tuition and free access to the public Bowling Green campus. The resolution also recommends that […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Bill O’Reilly to leave Fox News with $25 million

Fox News’ former star personality, Bill O’Reilly, will leave the network with the equivalent of one year’s salary — or $25 million, according to two people familiar with the settlement terms. Parent company 21st Century Fox on Wednesday fired O’Reilly, 67, after investigators retained by the company began reviewing allegations of sexual harassment and payouts

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Secret meeting at Mar-a-Lago raises questions about Colombia peace and Trump

BOGOTA, Colombia — President Donald Trump quietly met a pair of former Colombian presidents last weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, thrusting his administration into an ugly power struggle in Latin America that threatens to undermine the country’s controversial peace agreement with rebel leaders. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is expected to push Trump

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International, USA

UC Berkeley reverses decision to cancel Ann Coulter visit

University of California, Berkeley officials on Thursday reversed their decision to cancel conservative commentator Ann Coulter’s appearance at the university, but have rescheduled it from next week to May 2, according to a statement from the university. Coulter’s speech on immigration will be held at an “appropriate, protectable venue,” the university said. The university did

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

SDSU students condemn anti- Semitism

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — StandWithUs congratulates The San Diego State University Associated Students (A.S.) for passing “A Resolution to Condemn Anti-Semitism” on April 19, 2017. A copy of the resolution may be found via this link:  (https://as.sdsu.edu/govt/resources/legislation_resolution.php?legis=139) This follows similar resolutions that passed at UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Indiana University, and elsewhere. A.S.’s vote

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Netanyahu faces coalition anger over Israeli court’s Shabbat ruling

Tel Aviv (dpa) – A Supreme Court ruling in Israel allowing some shops to remain open on the Jewish Shabbat has prompted anger from within Prime Minister Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, local media reported Thursday. About 160 shops in Tel Aviv, a highly secular coastal city, can remain open on the Jewish Shabbat according to the

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

What’s the deal with this beaver herding a bunch of cows?

An animal behaviorist shares his thoughts about the viral video Steve, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 An American beaver (but not the one from the video) The latest sensation taking the internet by storm is this video of a beaver “herding” cows in Canada: According to the rancher who took the video, there are

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International, The World We Share

These trash pickers used to have miserable jobs. Now they run their own recycling cooperative.

After his father died when he was only a teenager, Yassine Mazzout started working nights at the landfill next to his home near Morocco’s capital Rabat, salvaging items that could be recycled or sold from the mountain of filth. “At 15, I should have spent my evenings playing with other kids,” said Mazzout. “But I

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Middle East, The World We Share

Harbin tech students send tiny satellite into orbit

LilacSat-1, a satellite developed by students at the Harbin Institute of Technology. A nanosatellite made by students at the Harbin Institute of Technology was launched in the United States on Tuesday as part of a mission to the International Space Station. The satellite, LilacSat-1, was on a Cygnus cargo spacecraft launched atop an Atlas 5

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Corbyn kicks off UK election campaign, vowing to overturn ‘rigged system’

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn kicked off the general election campaign on Thursday with a promise to beat the establishment, raise taxes on the wealthy and put power back in the hands of the people. Opinion polls suggest Labour will lose heavily in the snap election on June the 8th.But Corbyn called on voters to

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International

Beaten San Diego activist is recovering after disappearing in Mexico

Missing San Diego activist Hugo Castro has received medical attention and is stable after being found wounded Tuesday on a street called Avenida San Rafael in Tlalnepantla de Baz, a city in the State of Mexico, Mexico’s attorney general said in a press release. Investigators at the office of the special prosecutor for disappeared persons

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International, San Diego County, USA

Astronomers Find Nearby Planet That Could Host Alien Life

There might be another Earth out there, and its name is LHS 1140b. It’s not too catchy, but it could be the best candidate for finding alien life in our galactic neighborhood in the reasonable future. According to Harvard’s MEarth Project, which searches the universe for potentially habitable exoplanets, the rocky planet LHS 1140b orbits

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

US Ambassador to UN Takes Aim at Iran, Hezbollah

The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations took aim at Iran and its proxy militia Hezbollah on Thursday, saying the United States would act against this “growing menace.” At the monthly meeting of the U.N. Security Council that focuses on the Middle East, specifically the Israeli-Palestinian issue, Nikki Haley said the council should expand its

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International, Middle East, USA