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Why colleges are going out of business
Higher education is in crisis. Last week, Hampshire College — a private liberal arts school in Amherst, Massachusetts — announced it will shut down after the fall 2026 semester. Founded in 1965 to “reimagine liberal arts education,” Hampshire counts documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and actors Lupita Nyong’o and Liev Schreiber among its most notable alumni.
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‘They started it:’ Pete Crow-Armstrong won’t apologize for mocking Dodgers fans
When Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong’s scathing remarks about Dodgers fans took off this spring, he wasn’t worried about how fans might interpret them. His back-and-forth with the Dodgers fans dates back several years. “I wanted to make sure that the people on the other side of the field who I really respect knew where
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A New Generation of Climate Leaders Is Our Last Hope
It is not a great time for anyone concerned with the climate. On Feb. 12, the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency swept away its endangerment finding, wishing away the scientific understanding that burning fossil fuels is harmful to human health and eliminating the mechanism to limit the emissions that are transforming earth systems. Winter storms
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While California’s tourism rallied, L.A. faced its worst year since the pandemic
Tourist spending in Los Angeles fell for the first time since the pandemic last year as wildfires, ICE raids and trade tensions discouraged people from visiting. Direct travel spending in 2025 was slightly below the previous year in Los Angeles County, according to an economic impact report this week from Visit California. That’s a step
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‘Saros’ Shows Off the PS5’s DualSense Tricks
Spoiler for the very first thing you see in the upcoming game Saros: It’s a bunch of words. The letters type out one by one onto the screen, spelling out some world-building that gives context to kick off the game’s story. I don’t remember what any of it said, because I was so focused on
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Scientists Say They’ve Tested a Way to Get to Alpha Centauri in Just 20 Years
The nearest star system to our own, Alpha Centauri, is well over four light-years away — tens of trillions of lonely miles that could take hundreds, if not thousands, of Earth years to reach using contemporary rocket propulsion methods. But there may be a way to cut the length of the journey down significantly. As
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Stagecoach 2026: How to watch Saturday’s livestream with Lainey Wilson, Bush, Teddy Swims, Pitbull and more
Ready to sing along from your couch? The Amazon Music Stagecoach Saturday livestream has you covered. For a heartfelt ballad, you’ll be able to tune in as Teddy Swims and Lainey Wilson take the Stagecoach stage. Take a trip back in time to watch Bush perform, then end the night tuning into Mr. Worldwide taking
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Louisiana high school senior Martha Odom killed in mall mass shooting raved about NYC spring break trip week before tragedy
A teenager who was killed during a mass shooting at a Louisiana mall was enjoying “senior skip day” and had just returned home from a spring break trip to New York City days before the tragedy — as a suspect was arrested. Martha Odom, 17, was celebrating the final weeks of high school before graduation
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Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos
As researchers and practitioners debate the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday it used early access to Anthropic’s Mythos Preview to find and fix 271 vulnerabilities in its new Firefox 150 browser release. Meanwhile, researchers identified a group of moderately successful North Korean hackers using AI for everything
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How charities should handle the next Jeffrey Epstein
Not everybody acquiesced when Jeffrey Epstein came bearing gifts. Harvard University barred Epstein’s donations after he pleaded guilty to solicitation of a minor in 2008, a development that frustrated his friends on the faculty, according to an internal review. One physicist, a woman whom Epstein had bragged about and racially misprofiled in an interview that