New Delhi — Glaciers in the Hindu Kush region of the Himalaya mountains are melting at the fastest rate ever and could shed as much as 80% of their ice by the end of this century if global warming continues unchecked, a group of international scientists warned in an alarming new report. The study says…
Josh Smith, a pardoned drug offender who served as the No. 2 official at the federal Bureau of Prisons, abruptly announced Monday he was leaving the agency without giving a reason for his departure. But he had a tense relationship with some of the BOP’s employees, some of whom have also raised questions about contracts…
Washington — American citizen Min Zin has been legally designated by the U.S. State Department as wrongfully detained by China. “Secretary Rubio has formally designated U.S. citizen Min Zin as wrongfully detained,” Dylan Johnson, assistant secretary of state for global public affairs, said Thursday on X. “We call on Beijing to release all U.S. citizens…
Harvard University has agreed to pay a $53 million settlement after its former morgue manager stole and sold body parts donated for scientific research, with a court reportedly approving the plan on Tuesday. Cedric Lodge, who managed the morgue at the prestigious Harvard Medical School before being fired in 2023, was sentenced to eight years…
Washington — A former senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has pleaded guilty to a charge stemming from a scheme to hide federal records during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under a deal reached with federal prosecutors in Maryland, David Morens, 78, agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to…
Washington — The Trump administration pressured its career civil rights attorneys to investigate allegations of antisemitism at the university campuses of Harvard, Columbia and Brown even though there was no factual or legal basis to do so, according to a former Justice Department attorney. Haley Van Erem, a longtime lawyer at the Justice Department’s Civil…
Former Cambridge academic Jason Arday was found dead weeks after he resigned amid plagiarism allegations. Arday was Cambridge’s youngest Black professor. Police say his death does not appear to be suspicious but the case is being investigated. Source link
Multiple people were injured in a shooting involving multiple suspects at Virginia State University, prompting a temporary campus lockdown early Saturday, the university said. The shooting happened around 1:30 a.m outside a university residence hall, and both campus police and are investigating, a university statement said. When police arrived, they found five people suffering from…
A Thai teenager killed at least five people and himself at a school outside Bangkok on Friday after fatally shooting his grandparents, police said, in the Southeast Asian nation’s worst mass killing since 2022. Police said the shooter, who was 14 years old, fired at least 26 bullets, and was found with 34 additional ammunition…
At least seven people were killed on Friday when a student opened fire at a school in Thailand before turning the gun on himself, a national police official said. Students streamed out of the Debsirin Nonthaburi School, on the northwestern outskirts of Bangkok, as the wounded were loaded onto ambulances and teachers hugged each other…
