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As degrees get branded worthless, LinkedIn’s just revealed the universities that give Gen Z the best shot at corner office jobs

Move over Harvard and Columbia, Princeton and Duke are the schools most likely to fast-track Gen Z to the C-suite.

Fortune

Brown University strikes $50m deal to end Trump administration pressure

Trump has withheld hundreds of millions in federal funds from top universities in effort to reshape US higher education.

Al Jazeera

‘Over 50,000 Americans will die’: Bernie Sanders explains the truly frightening toll of Donald Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Bernie Sanders was right, like he always is.

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Lia Thomas Stripped of Titles: Female Swimmers to Receive Apologies as NCAA Crowns New Champions

Lia Thomas' NCAA records revoked after UPenn settlement. What led to this decision and what it means for transgender athletes in women's sports.

International Business Times UK

UPenn bans transgender athletes from female sports and revokes some of Lia Thomas’ records in Trump admin deal

The Department of Education claimed trans women’s sporting victories had been illegally ‘misappropriated’ from their cisgender competitors

The Independent UK

UPenn to ban transgender athletes, feds say, ending civil rights case focused on swimmer Lia Thomas

The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women’s sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case that found the school violated the rights of female athletes

The Independent UK

Happy Birthday Elon Musk! 54 Things You Might Not Know About Earth's Temporary Resident

Billionaire Elon Musk is best known as the CEO of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX. Musk is also one of the most followed and popular figures in the world.

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Fungus that may have caused 'King Tut's curse' shows promise in treating cancer

Scientists have found that a deadly tomb fungus called Aspergillus flavus may hold the key to promising new treatments for leukemia.

LiveScience

Immunotherapy trial helps cancer patients with tumours live 40% longer

Experts praise groundbreaking results from therapy using genetically modified Car T-cells

The Guardian - UK

It’s Trump - not Barron - who failed to get into Harvard, biographer claims

‘One of the Trump things is always holding a grudge against the Ivy Leagues,’ says author Michael Wolff

The Independent UK

AI is already beating traditional forecasters when it comes to predicting weather

Researchers say Aurora consistently produces faster forecasts than traditional models and, in many cases, offers greater accuracy

The Independent UK

US doctors rewrite DNA of infant with severe genetic disorder in medical first

Gene-editing breakthrough has potential to treat array of devastating genetic diseases soon after birth, scientists say

The Guardian - UK

Trump administration says Penn violated sex discrimination laws after transgender swimmer competed

The Trump administration says the University of Pennsylvania illegally denied women equal opportunities by letting a transgender swimmer compete on the school’s women’s team and into team facilities

The Independent UK

Herbert Gans, leading sociologist and media analyst, dies at 97

Herbert Gans, an eminent sociologist and media analyst, has died at age 97

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International Business Times UK

Why Harvard Just Said No to Trump — And What It Means for Other American Universities

Harvard's resistance towards Trump's attempt to control the education system is already influencing how other elite universities respond to his administration's demands.

LiveScience

Dangerous 'crises' in sickle cell disease may be amplified by menstrual cycle

In a new study, researchers found that the inflammation behind painful episodes in sickle cell disease are correlated with the menstrual cycle.

The Conversation

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence

Many American universities, widely seen globally as beacons of academic integrity and free speech, are giving in to demands from the Trump administration, which has been targeting academia since it took office.

The Guardian - US

White House freezes funds for Cornell and Northwestern in latest crackdown

Pauses come after Trump officials sent warning letters to 60 US universities for ‘failure to protect Jewish students’

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The Independent UK

Trump administration suspends $175 million in federal funding for Penn over transgender swimmer

The Trump administration has suspended approximately $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over the participation of a transgender athlete in its swimming program

The Guardian - US

Trump administration pauses $175m in funds to UPenn over trans athlete policy

White House official reportedly calls funding freeze ‘just a taste of what could be coming’ for Ivy League university

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Harvard Says Tuition Will Now Be Free For Families Who Make $200K Or Less

From the next academic year, Harvard will be making tuition free for families Wwo make $200K or less. The post Harvard Says Tuition Will Now Be Free For Families Who Make $200K Or Less first appeared on Bored Panda.

Latin Times

Far-Right Group Claiming To Be Behind Arrest of Palestinian US Resident Has 'Thousands of Names' on 'Deportation List'

Betar U.S. said it has provided a "deportation list" to key members of the Trump administration in its efforts to deport any students or faculty members in academia that show support for Palestine, including "naturalized citizens."

The Independent UK

‘Stand up’: Scientists launch major protest against ‘devastating attacks’ by Trump administration

Thousands are expected at rallies in defense of science on Friday in Washington, D.C., and nationwide

Fortune

Universities that anticipate funding losses from Elon Musk's DOGE cuts are yanking back admissions offers to Gen Z grads

Universities like the University of Pennsylvania are cutting back on graduate admissions programs in preparation of federal funding decreases.

The Independent UK

Carlyle Group co-founder Bill Conway’s $1 billion plan to end the nursing shortage

No other wealthy donor has dedicated as much money to such a wide range of nursing programs as Bill Conway, the 75-year-old co-founder of the private equity giant the Carlyle Group, and his late wife, Joanne Barkett Conway, who died in January, 2024

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