ByĀ Holly Yan,Ā Ryan Young,Ā Isabel Rosales,Ā Nick ValenciaĀ andĀ Dakin Andone At least six people were injured in a mass shooting at Florida State University on Thursday, according to hospital officials, who had earlier confirmed to CNN it was receiving and treating patients from the campus. All six patients had suffered gunshot injuries, a spokesperson for Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare said.
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By Luke Barr The Department of Homeland Security is demanding “detailed records” on Harvard University’s student visa holders, according to a statement from the department. The school must turn over student visa holders’ records, specifically those pertaining to “illegal and violent activities,” or risk losing the school’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program status, Homeland Security
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By Devin Dwyer The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would hear expedited oral arguments next month over President Donald Trump’s emergency request to rollback nationwide injunctions against his executive order to end birthright citizenship. The nation’s highest court set arguments for May 15 at 10 a.m. The move by the justices sets the stage
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By DeJuan Hoggard Five people were taken into custody and charged on Wednesday afternoon during a student-led protest at North Carolina Central University. AnĀ ABC11 Eyewitness NewsĀ crew at the scene witnessed campus police officers taking down several people and detaining them. An NCCU spokesperson said the gathering was “an unauthorized rally” and said at least three
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Fizz, the social media platform created by Gen Z for Gen Z to form authentic digital communities, today announces a new partnership withĀ Breakthrough Ventures, a startup accelerator for young early-stage student founders.Ā FizzĀ will provide Breakthrough Ventures with advertising credits to promote the accelerator on its platform. Through Fizz, Breakthrough will recruit founders to apply for its
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By Larry J. Sanders Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive cancer that originates in the bone marrow and affects the blood and immune system, has proven a more deadly illness in African American patients ā and particularly younger individuals ā than compared to their white counterparts. Research indicates that among Black AML patients, 11% died
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Marybeth Gasman, the Samuel DeWitt Proctor chair and distinguished professor in the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, recentlyĀ publishedĀ an article that discusses the influence of the Supreme Court case “Brown v. Board of Education” on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and higher education access. The study explores how the federal case “Brown v. Board of
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By Alan Feuer A federal judge in Washington threatened on Wednesday to open a high-stakes contempt investigation into whether the Trump administration had violated an order he issued last month directing officials to stop planes of Venezuelan migrants from being sent to El Salvador. In a 46-page ruling, the judge, James E. Boasberg, said he
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The advancement of video game multiplayer experiences receives essential transformation from technological advancements in machine learning programming. Academic research which was previously limited to scholars now forms the core element for creating multiplayer environments that provide real-time reactions according to player movements. Virtual games created through artificial intelligence implementations in multiplayer development share a new
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Delaware State University and Capital One Financial hosted a pitch competition for HBCU Entrepreneurs developing agricultural tech solutions. The āInnovation Ventureā took place on Delaware Stateās campus on April 14. It hosted not only HBCU students from across the country but successful Black entrepreneurs and agricultural experts who joined in critical discussions about the industry.
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