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Penn State proposes closing 7 campuses, affecting over 500 employees and thousands of students – Times of India

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Penn State University President Neeli Bendapudi. (Getty Images) Penn State University President Neeli Bendapudi has proposed the closure of seven commonwealth campuses, a move that could impact over 500 employees and more than 3,100 students.The proposal, revealed in internal records obtained by Spotlight PA, seeks to consolidate Penn State’s presence in Pennsylvania, citing sustained enrollment…

Russian Election Expert Grigory Melkonyants Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison, State Media Report

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The head of Russia’s only independent election watchdog was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison after being convicted of working with an “undesirable” organization, according to Russian news agencies and his attorney. Grigory Melkonyants, a co-founder of the Russian election monitoring group Golos, was jailed in 2023 after President Vladimir V. Putin ordered…

Kurdish P.K.K. Says It Will End Conflict with Turkish State

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A Kurdish group that has waged a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state for four decades said on Monday that it would lay down its arms and end the conflict, a decision that could reverberate across neighboring countries. The announcement by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known by its Kurdish acronym, P.K.K., came a few months…

Republican Agenda Hits Familiar Obstacle: State and Local Taxes

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Gerhard Randers-Pehrson, an 81-year-old resident of Ossining, N.Y., believes the $10,000 cap should go up — but not too much. While Mr. Randers-Pehrson, a retired research scientist, said he paid $16,000 in state and local taxes last year, he does not expect to personally benefit from a higher cap. He would take the standard deduction…

Verify facts: India slams Chinese state media for Op Sindoor ‘dis-information’

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India asked Chinese state media Global Times to “verify facts” and cross-examine its sources, hours after it reported that three Indian fighter jets were shot down by Pakistan after strikes by India. In a tweet, the Indian Embassy in China alleged that Global Times was spreading disinformation on Operation Sindoor, the Indian operation against terror…

Why Trump admin wanted to shift Indian scholar’s trial to another state

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Over a month after a district court judge in the US blocked the deportation of Indian researcher Badar Khan Suri, the Donald Trump administration urged a federal judge to move the Indian national’s lawsuit challenging his deportation from Virginia to Texas. Suri was taken into custody by federal agents outside his house in Virginia on…

Maharashtra State Board to announce HSC results on this date: Check details here – The Times of India

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Maharashtra Board Class 12th result 2025: The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) is set to announce the much-awaited Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) results on Monday, May 5, 2025, at 1 PM according to an official notification. The results will be made available on the official websites of the MSBSHSE and…

On California’s State Bar Exam, More Questions Than Answers

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Thousands of people took the new California bar exam in February, ready to the join the ranks of the state’s 195,000 lawyers. But a series of missteps by the institution responsible for licensing lawyers has thrown thousands of nascent legal careers into a frustrating limbo. First, there was the faulty testing software used during the…

Trump Family Business Signs Middle East Deal Ahead of State Visit

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The Trump Organization has agreed to a deal with a Qatari government-owned firm to back a golf course and luxury home project in the country, two weeks before President Trump is set to travel to the Middle East on a state visit. Eric Trump, the president’s son who runs the family business, traveled to Dubai…

This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump

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The conversation between two Rutgers University professors that lit a fire in U.S. higher education circles lasted only about 10 minutes. The professors — one teaches chemistry in Camden, N.J., the other psychology in Newark — said they were frustrated by the Trump administration’s abrupt cuts to research funding and its efforts to dictate policy…