A Pennsylvania college removed “thin blue line” coronavirus face masks from its campus bookstore last month after receiving complaints from students and the school’s multicultural office, with one staff member linking the symbol to White supremacy and the alt-right. Muhlenberg College’s Office of Multicultural Life said it was notified by multiple students on Aug. 14…
Colleges and universities are implementing policies and programs to address issues arising from George Floyd’s death, but some faculty and staff say those efforts represent political conformity for more conservative members of the campus community. Last week, a political science professor at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, told Inside Higher Ed that he is…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…