Topic: Education — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-08 11:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Startling allegations have been made against University of Alabama Birmingham softball coach Taylor Smartt in a damming report that outlined alleged incidents of racist remarks and mental and physical abuse toward players.
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[2026-05-08 10:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Multiple former Ohio State football players agreed to join a federal lawsuit against the school over alleged sexual abuse by a team doctor, a lawyer in the case told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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[2026-05-08 10:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: People take photos near a John Harvard statue, left, on the Harvard University campus, Jan. 2, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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[2026-05-08 10:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US authorities on Thursday investigated a potential chemical attack that took place during a pro-Israel festival at George Washington University, Washington, DC, on Tuesday.
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[2026-05-08 10:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: New York is taking direct aim at the city’s ultra-wealthy absentee owners. In a major policy shift announced Thursday, Governor Kathy Hochul and state legislative leaders reached a framework agreement on a $268 billion state budget that includes a new annual tax on multimillion-dollar second homes in New York City - a move designed to generate roughly $500 million a year to help close the city’s projected $5.4 billion budget deficit.
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[2026-05-08 10:18 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The US trade court ruled Thursday against President Donald Trump's 10 percent global tariffs in another legal setback to his trade policy, as his administration is already working to replace its emergency duties struck down by the Supreme Court in February.
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[2026-05-08 09:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A tuberculosis outbreak at a San Francisco Catholic high school has infected or exposed nearly one in five students and staff members, according to city health officials.
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[2026-05-08 08:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The upcoming California high school girls’ track and field postseason is set to feature a trans athlete from Jurupa Valley High School (JVHS).
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[2026-05-08 08:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, May 7 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. trade court ruled Thursday against President Donald Trump's 10 percent global tariffs in another legal setback to his trade policy, as his administration is already working to replace its emergency duties struck down by the Supreme Court in February.
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[2026-05-08 07:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A posh Upper East Side daycare and preschool that costs up to $40,000 a year is under investigation in connection to an allegation that a student was sexually abused by a staff member — and livid parents claim the administration kept them in the dark for more than a week.
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[2026-05-08 07:10 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-05-08 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The IPCC has published a new generation of climate scenarios - and buried in the fine print is a remarkable concession: the extreme warming pathways that dominated climate research, policy, and media coverage for decades were never actually plausible. It took a while to notice because almost no one in mainstream media bothered to report it.
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[2026-05-08 06:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Former relief teacher Rachel Toyer has been raising awareness about an education department policy that she argues discriminates against mothers. (ABC News: Che Chorley)
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[2026-05-08 06:00 UTC+10:00] [General Features] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Vijay also represents a younger political brand that may prioritize regional economic engagement. Hence, there are a few possible openings for Sri Lanka to engage in joint tourism promotion between Northern Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu, establish ferry connectivity revival between ports such as Kankesanthurai Harbour and Nagapattinam Port, and increase cultural links such as film, education, and technology exchanges.
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[2026-05-08 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Farhad Ibragimov – lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at RUDN University, expert and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
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[2026-05-08 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Farhad Ibragimov – lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at RUDN University, expert and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
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[2026-05-08 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Trust is a strange thing. We spend years building it, only to realise how fragile it always was. There are some emotions the rational mind struggles to process. Betrayal is one of them. Because trust is rarely built overnight. It takes time. Conversations. Consistency. Presence. We spend years learning who to trust, slowly lowering our guard around people who begin to feel safe.
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[2026-05-08 05:43 UTC+10:00] [Local] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Deniyaya Zonal Education Director Nishaka Hettigoda said authorities had decided to close four schools in the Deniyaya zone for students on May 7 and 8 due to a rapidly spreading viral fever among children in the Kotapola Medical Officer of Health division.
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[2026-05-08 05:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A person walks over the Ohio State University’s emblem in the campus student union, May 18, 2019, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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[2026-05-08 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: La Trobe University, Colombo in collaboration with Study Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and La Trobe University, Australia organised a panel discussion on ‘AI and Future Employment Opportunities’.
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[2026-05-08 05:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: In a significant step toward enhancing international academic partnerships, Prof Mohamad Chahine, Director IMI from Kursk State Medical University, Russia visited the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon (IChemC) to explore opportunities for initiating joint undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes.
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[2026-05-08 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) and Cambridge University Press and Assessment partnered, making CSE Academy an authorised examination centre for Linguaskill by Cambridge recently on April 30, bringing the English proficiency test designed for academics and professionals to CSE’s 12 branches leveraging the exchanges’ presence in all provinces in the country.
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[2026-05-08 05:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A teacher being questioned about the death of his adopted baby son denied abusing him and said he "could not recall" taking a Snapchat video of him struggling to breathe, a court has been told.
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[2026-05-08 05:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Five young Jewish couples from Russia and other former Soviet republics married under chuppahs in Brazil on Lag Ba’omer, in a ceremony attended by some 900 Jewish students and young adults participating in a Jewish education trip organized by YAHAD, according to a statement from organizers.
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[2026-05-08 05:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: An Arizona State University student vanished on a trip to the Grand Canyon 10 days ago — failing to return in time to take his finals and attend an interview for a job he wanted.
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[2026-05-08 05:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Israeli Education Minister Yoav Kisch has threatened to advance legislation imposing financial sanctions on educational institutions unless they commit to keeping politics out of academia, he confirmed on Tuesday.
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[2026-05-08 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Cornell University published video footage on Sunday that it said exonerated its president from claims that he had hit two students with his car, after activists seeking amnesty for anti-Israel activists followed him to his vehicle after an Israeli-Palestinian conflict debate last Thursday.
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[2026-05-08 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Open letters calling to end cooperation with the Halle Jewish community organization on a counter-antisemitism project because they were ostensibly Zionist were posted at a German university repeatedly for a week, according to the Jewish Community of Halle (JG Halle), the State Association of Jewish Communities of Saxony-Anhalt (JG Saxony-Anhalt), and Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle.
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[2026-05-08 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A former Knox Grammar teacher was due to accept a University of Sydney award the same day as he was to learn his punishment in court for child grooming.
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[2026-05-08 04:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Susan Ballabina reacts to her unanimous approval as the 28th President of Texas A&M University during the special meeting of the Board of Regents on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, in College Station, Texas. (Meredith Seaver/College Station Eagle via AP)
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[2026-05-08 03:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Two top school leaders for this liberal city’s school district are frustrated with the state of their education system, they said in a recent interview.
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[2026-05-08 03:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law is in the midst of a free-speech emergency.
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[2026-05-08 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A Colorado school district is being sued for suspending an Asian student who recorded her peers drunkenly using racial slurs in a disturbing video that went viral — but didn’t punish the black students who blasted it on social media because their actions should be viewed through a “culturally responsive lens.”
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[2026-05-08 02:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
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[2026-05-08 02:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
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[2026-05-08 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The UAE is among a small group of nations shaping the future of frontier artificial intelligence rather than simply consuming it, say the head of the country’s AI university.
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[2026-05-08 02:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: A PUBLIC hearing on the Commission on Higher Education’s (CHED) “Policies, Standards and Guidelines on the Reframed General Education Curriculum Component” was scheduled for the afternoon of May 5, 2026. The most important part of this would-be reframed general education (GE) curriculum for me — and the community of historians and collegiate-level history faculty in the country — is Article V (“General Education Structure and Content”) Section 7-A of the CHED draft document where the five courses that constitute the
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[2026-05-08 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE heat is on in the academic community. It is because the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) intends to reframe the General Education (GE) curriculum, and it is being rejected — massively.
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[2026-05-08 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Columnist’s note: I am happy to feature as a guest columnist a much-admired colleague from Singapore, Anitha Devi Pillai of the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. I am impressed by her large body of work on various aspects of language and literature, but most especially those on Malayalam and Malayalees in Singapore.
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[2026-05-08 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Australia has been averse to ideological extremes but after two decades of growing inequality and public policy stasis, the country’s robust democratic formula is facing challenges
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[2026-05-08 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Metropolitan Police said on Thursday that they were investigating reports that a vehicle drove toward and endangered Jewish school children on April 20.
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[2026-05-08 00:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Online images earlier showed national flag hanging upside down on top of building at F.S.F.T.F. Fong Shu Chuen Primary School in Fanling
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[2026-05-08 00:41 UTC+10:00] [national flag] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Online images earlier showed national flag hanging upside down on top of building at F.S.F.T.F. Fong Shu Chuen Primary School in Fanling
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[2026-05-08 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: AI start-up MiroMind has relocated some staff to Singapore to divide operations for compliance amid heightened scrutiny
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[2026-05-08 00:00 UTC+10:00] [South China Morning Post] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: AI start-up MiroMind has relocated some staff to Singapore to divide operations for compliance amid heightened scrutiny
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[2026-05-08 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Wang Ping has been fired as dean of life sciences school, demoted by two ranks, and issued a 24-month ban on promotions, funding and awards
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[2026-05-08 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Laboratory of Tumour Microenvironment] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Wang Ping has been fired as dean of life sciences school, demoted by two ranks, and issued a 24-month ban on promotions, funding and awards
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[2026-05-07 23:59 UTC+10:00] [AI Act] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Der wirtschaftspolitische Podcast von POLITICO Deutschland.
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[2026-05-07 23:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A perverted substitute teacher pictured in tears in her mugshot has been given a sweetheart deal after admitting to having sex with a 15-year-old child.
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[2026-05-07 23:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: It’s a colossal find.
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