Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Phoenix police found a 5-month old boy dead after his mother called 911. Prosecutors blame parents for the death and for illnesses of other children.

Yeah, I know, it's the Post but the notion of "The Brony Bomber" is amusing.

The Tulsa Police Department arrested a man accused of robbing a south Tulsa liquor store with an antique gun on Friday night.

AI slop in your brain? It is more likely than you think.

The family of a California man who died aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing the company of overserving him alcohol and using excessive force that they say led to his death. Michael Virgil, 35, died Dec. 13, 2024, during a four-day Navigator of the Seas cruise from Los Angeles to Ensenada, Mexico. He was traveling with his fiancée, their young son and other relatives. According to the complaint filed in federal court, Virgil participated in the ship’s all-inclusive “Deluxe Beverage” package and was served at least 33 alcoholic drinks in the hours leading up to his death. The family alleges he became visibly intoxicated as crew members continued serving him alcohol. Virgil became lost and agitated while trying to find his cabin, the lawsuit states. It alleges Royal Caribbean security personnel tackled him, restrained him with their body weight and held him in a prone position that restricted his breathing. The complaint also says crew members used multiple cans of pepper spray and, at the direction of a staff captain, injected him with Haloperidol, a sedative. Virgil became unresponsive and died on the ship.

The two-masted schooner was fully intact—a rarity in Great Lakes shipwreck finds.

In 2017, a lawsuit uncovered internal emails from chemical giant Monsanto that suggested its employees helped ghostwrite an influential paper that claimed to find no evidence the company’s widely used glyphosate herbicide, Roundup, caused cancer. Now, the scientific journal that published the 2000 paper has announced it has been retracted. The paper was withdrawn because of “serious ethical concerns” and questions about the validity of the research findings, toxicologist Martin van den Berg, co–editor-in-chief of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, wrote in a scathing retraction notice released on 28 November. “This article has been widely regarded as a hallmark paper in the discourse surrounding the carcinogenicity of glyphosate and Roundup,” wrote van den Berg, who works at Utrecht University. “However, the lack of clarity regarding which parts of the article were authored by Monsanto employees creates uncertainty about the integrity of the conclusions drawn.” The decision, which came more than 8 years after the initial revelations, can be traced to the work of two scientists who this year filed a retraction request with the journal after documenting the staying power of the disputed paper. “My worry is that people will keep citing it,” says Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard University who sought the retraction along with her then–postdoctoral researcher, Alexander Kaurov.

The violent arrest of the father of three, who has no criminal convictions, "should shock the conscience," Washington Sen.Patty Murray said.

In the culture war that is higher education, state Representative Brian Harrison is a drone pilot. With the flick of his finger and a twist of the joystick, the East Texas Republican conducts lethal signature strikes. The former labradoodle breeder turned Bush bureaucrat turned regional MAGA star tweets about a college course or professor he doesn’t like, often tagging the governor, and Texas universities fall over themselves to comply. His kill rate: impressive. In early September, Harrison posted a video on X a video of a student at Texas A&M confronting an English professor over her teaching of a queer-friendly children’s book. “I just have a question, because I’m not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching,” the student said. The video set off a chain of events that has resulted so far in the termination of the professor, the demotion of a dean and a department chair, and the resignation of the president of the university. The day after the video was shared, the Texas A&M System announced an audit of curriculums, the first of a wave of ongoing reviews and bans on teaching gender and race ideology by at least five Texas public university systems.

The use of ‘nudify’ apps is becoming more and more prevalent, with hundreds of teachers having seen images created by pupils, often of their peers. The fallout is huge – and growing fast

Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries. Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday — known as the country’s cradle of liberty — for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn’t proceed due to their countries of origin. The same situation is playing out at naturalization events across the country as USCIS directed its employees to halt adjudicating all immigration pathways for people from 19 countries deemed to be “high risk”. “One of our clients said that she had gone to her oath ceremony because she hadn’t received the cancellation notice in time,” said Gail Breslow, executive director of Project Citizenship. “She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

Roman Novak and his wife Anna were allegedly kidnapped and held for ransom before being butchered in a resort in the middle of a desert. (Kind of grisly, yet trivially censored.)

Behind the brickwork and neon signs of Kansas City’s Westport entertainment district, a federal lawsuit alleges an invisible regime decides who belongs and who does not. The mechanism of control, according to court documents, is a secret “Good Neighbor Agreement.” The price of entry is compliance. And the enforcers are an all-white, twelve-member board of the Westport Community Improvement District (CID). “We won’t sign a consent of any kind, even beer and wine, unless we have a good neighbor agreement in place,” CID members told prospective business owners, according to a lawsuit that claims to quote an audio recording. And for those who resist? “We do everything we can to put them out of business.”

FBI agents have grown increasingly concerned by Patel’s use of the bureau’s strapped resource.

Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to buy the legacy Hollywood giant’s studio and streaming business for $72 billion.

New Zealand police have recovered a diamond-encrusted green Faberge egg after keeping a six-day watch over the thief accused of swallowing it. The 32-year-old allegedly gulped down the egg late last week from a store in the country's largest city, Auckland, but was arrested before he could flee. "Police can confirm the pendant was recovered," they said in a statement Friday. "It is now in police custody." Police had assigned an officer to watch over the man while waiting for nature to deliver the trinket -- valued at around US$20,000.

Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback is facing allegations from a former partner regarding a relationship that began when she was a minor, according to documents filed in a 2025 Leon County court case. The woman, now an adult, made the claims while recounting events that took place years earlier. The allegations were outlined in a Petition for Injunction for Protection Against Stalking filed by Keniah Fort in January 2025. Fort stated that she joined Fishback’s organization in 2021 at age 16, while Fishback was 26, and that he initiated a romantic relationship with her while she was still a minor. She said he explicitly instructed her to keep the relationship secret, a tactic some experts might describe as grooming. Documents show Fort alleged her relationship with Fishback escalated over time. In Spring of 2023, she said she and Fishback began to live together, during which she was financially dependent on him due to irregular pay from her work in his organization.

Nucleus Genomics is the latest startup to compete for attention with a controversial ad campaign—and it might just be working.

Next year, Greece will complete its coal phaseout, a success for the energy transition. But Western Macedonia residents feel left behind.