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Harvard, Yale among dozens of universities targeted in financial aid price-fixing lawsuit
Forty of the top private universities across the United States are under fire after a lawsuit was filed accusing the institutions of conspiring to overcharge students for their education. According to the lawsuit, these universities bilked applicants from divorced or separated homes by including the financial backgrounds of noncustodial parents when determining financial aid packages. …
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Mexican gun dispute and a straight woman’s sex discrimination claim among new Supreme Court cases
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday took up a series of new cases ahead of its new term, including a bid by gun companies to evade a lawsuit filed by the Mexican government and a workplace sex discrimination dispute over claims a woman was discriminated against because she is straight. The court’s nine-month new…
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Breast cancer rising among younger women and Asian Americans, report finds
Americans have benefited from huge leaps in breast cancer treatment over the last two decades, but diagnoses are becoming more common, especially among younger women, according to a report published Tuesday by the American Cancer Society. The new report shows that breast cancer mortality has decreased by 44% since the late 1980s. Rates of breast…
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Hurricane Helene floodwaters trapped Tennessee plastics plant employees. Some are among the missing, dead.
Families began learning the grim news Monday that their loved ones were among the workers who did not survive when floodwaters from Hurricane Helene trapped them at a eastern Tennessee plastics factory. Family members, some of whom had gotten frantic video phone calls from their loved ones as the waters swelled, were learning the fate…
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A veteran firefighter and a 4-year-old girl are among the dead from Helene
In Blackshear, Georgia, a firefighter died while trying to protect others from Hurricane Helene. In Catawba County, North Carolina, a 4-year-old was killed in a head-on car crash on a rainy road. And in Charlotte, North Carolina, a tree fell on a home, killing a resident. Hurricane Helene’s victims were still being counted Friday afternoon.…
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Elon Musk’s popularity plummets to 6% among Democrats, poll finds
Elon Musk’s support among Democrats has withered to a new low as he has embraced Republican politics, according to a national NBC News poll. Only 6% of Democrats in the poll, which was conducted Sept. 13-17, said they had positive feelings about Musk, while 79% said they had negative feelings. The numbers were flipped for…
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Hezbollah commanders among 37 killed in Beirut strike; Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 22, officials say
And a senior officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said the region was on the brink of war. Calling Israel’s airstrike “another major crime,” Mohsen Rezaee raised the prospect of widening conflict, saying “it is possible that after Lebanon, they may extend their crimes toward Iraq, Syria, or, with an even bigger mistake,…
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Whooping cough cases spiking, especially among unvaccinated teens
The U.S. is experiencing more than four times as many whooping cough cases compared with last year — a spike that some experts attribute to post-pandemic vaccine fatigue. “With the increase in vaccine hesitancy that has been going on since the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re seeing outbreaks occurring in kids who are not vaccinated,” said Dr.…