A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland has instructed the FBI to mobilize ag...
University students of yesteryear read the classics.
Aristotle, Euclid, Homer and Plato were part of the regular course of study. And students read these challenging te...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police officer and expectant mom Sarah Brummer had read and heard horror stories in which COVID-19 killed either an unvaccinated mother or her child.
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An annual commemoration that we wish no longer had to exist — but draws attention to the importance of discussing mental health issues — was held this week.
The Grapevin...
On a fall day in 1974, I walked into a Russian language course at Hunter College, one of the Manhattan campuses of the public City University of New York system.
In New ...
Right now, our health care workers need support. I know it’s been said before, but perhaps they need our support maybe now more than ever.
Yes, we’ve gone through a who...
Disney+ could never play “Squid Game.”
By now, many viewers have probably heard of Netflix Inc.’s creepy series out of South Korea, which has become a streaming sensatio...
I read the syndicated editorial by Myriam Gurba titled, “Do Safety Officers Help Students Feel Safe,” and I feel for any students and staff who are a part of the type of...
A major crisis may have been averted, but the short-term gain will lead to a much greater long-term cost.
Congress recently narrowly avoided another government shutdown ...
The first big data release from the 2020 census in August contained some positive news about America’s biggest cities. The biggest of them, New York, turned out to have ...
