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Wage Garnishment to Resume Over Student Loans
2+ hour ago (310+ words) It's bad news for those in default on their student loans: The federal government is going to resume garnishing wages starting next month, reports the Washington Post . The first 1,000 notices will go out on Jan. 7, and the number of notices…...
Melania Trump Doc to Premiere at Rebranded Kennedy Center
11+ hour, 39+ min ago (359+ words) Melania Trump's new documentary has landed a splashy premiere venue: the newly rebranded Trump-Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The Brett Ratner-directed film, Melania , tracks the first lady over the 20 days before the 2025 presidential inauguration and was made with her cooperation, per…...
Brown University Police Chief Put on Leave
12+ hour, 46+ min ago (750+ words) Brown University's top campus safety official has been sidelined as scrutiny intensifies over the school's handling of the deadly Dec. 13 campus shooting . President Christina Paxson announced Monday that Vice President for Public Safety and Emergency Management Rodney Chatman has been…...
It's Good News for Those Who Weren't Child Prodigies
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (382+ words) Being the star kid in the classroom or on the team may not be the ticket to top-tier success later on, according to a sweeping new study of elite performers. Researchers led by Arne Gullich at Germany's University of Kaiserslautern-Landau…...
AI Pioneer Has Advice for Young Grandson
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (310+ words) If the machines end up doing most of the work, Yoshua Bengio wants his grandson ready for what they can't replace. On Steven Bartlett's Diary of a CEO podcast , the deep-learning pioneer'often grouped with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun as…...
Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing is found dead, officials say
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (970+ words) A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed he also was suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute…...
Canada's Population Sees Rare Dip Over International Students
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (416+ words) Canada just experienced something it almost never does: Its population shrank. Statistics Canada says the country's head count slipped 0.2% in Q3, or about 76,000 people, to 41.6 million. The numbers haven't seen a dip like this since 2020, when COVID border rules froze movement,…...
Bill Bans Student Smartphones at Schools on Military Bases
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (320+ words) Military kids on US bases are about to join the growing list of students who can't check TikTok between classes. Tucked into the $900 billion National Defense Authorization Act is a new requirement: K-12 students at schools run by the Department of…...
How a Brown Custodian Tipped FBI Off to Suspect
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (550+ words) A man suspected in the fatal shootings at Brown University and of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after a five-day search that spanned several New England states, authorities said…...
Harvard Probes Students Over Viral Videos of Larry Summers
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (244+ words) Harvard is quietly scrutinizing two seniors who helped thrust Larry Summers' ties to Jeffrey Epstein back into the spotlight. Sources tell the New York Times that the university has opened a confidential disciplinary investigation into students Rosie P. Couture and Lola…...