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A professor at New York University says he’s been suspended fromteaching after colleagues denounced his “incivility” in publiclyattacking trigger warning, safe spaces, and other aspects ofpolitical correctness on American campuses. Liberal studies professor Michael Rictenwald admittedin an interview last week that he is Deplorable NYUProfessor, a Twitter personality launched in September… → Read More
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine had three white people removed from a jury pool because of their race during a trial in the 1980s, according to a law review article recently unearthed b → Read More
Cisco Systems will be laying off as many as 14,000 employees in the near future. Despite repeated layoffs, the company has been a big backer of H-1B visas. → Read More
The State Department has announced that it won't be releasing a trove of Hillary Clinton's emails until after the presidential election, but the day it plans to release them doesn't actually exist. → Read More
London mayor-elect Sadiq Khan warned Donald Trump Tuesday that his proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S. would encourage Islamic terrorism. → Read More
A student at Harvard Law School provoked outrage after asking a visiting Jewish Israeli politician why she was "so smelly." The student's identity remains unknown despite using the slur in a public → Read More
Lawyers for Jackie Coakley, the University of Virginia (UVA) student at the center of a massive gang rape hoax, are arguing that she shouldn't have to testify in an ongoing lawsuit because it could " → Read More
A diversity official at Williams College has written a piece for The Washington Post saying college concepts like safe spaces should be taken nationwide. → Read More
The winner of a transgender beauty contest in the United Kingdom has lost her title after organizers ruled that he was simply a drag queen and not transgender enough. According to The Telegraph, 22 → Read More
Students at a St. Paul, Minn., elementary school are poised to stop celebrating Christmas after their principal decided that it and other "dominant" holidays worked to "suppress" the views of others. → Read More
Iran celebrated its capture of 10 U.S. sailors earlier this month by awarding five of their captors the Fath (Victory) Medal. Iran's state news agency announced the awards Sunday. Iranian Suprem → Read More
America's state governments are becoming more honest with parents about the rather dismal performance of U.S. students on standardized tests, according to a new → Read More
Giving some ground Saturday, German leader Angela Merkel said that as soon as ISIS is defeated, Syrian and Iraqi migrants will have to be sent home. → Read More
Oxford University has announced it will not give in to demands that it tear down a statue of Cecil Rhodes, due to 'overwhelming' public opposition. → Read More
South Dakota's House has passed a bill requiring students to use bathrooms aligned with their biological sex, making it the first state to advance such a bill. → Read More
A recent "Consent Carnival" hosted at the University of Southern California (USC) tried to teach students the basics of sexual consent by making them "have sex" with a giant bouncy house and by giving → Read More
Republicans could use the issue of school choice to win over minority and millennial voters in 2016, a new poll showing the issue remains very popular with the electorate suggests. Seventy percent → Read More
Under a deal announced Friday, Melissa Click will perform community service and avoid prosecution for assaulting a student journalist in November. → Read More
The black activist group which forced out University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe says Melissa Click is a victim of 'social and political violence.' → Read More
Students at the University of California, Santa Barbara launched an aggressive protest at a job fair, chanting "fuck your borders" at recruiters trying to solicit applications for U.S. Customs and B → Read More