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Colleges happily grade students and evaluate faculty but are often not thrilled by the published report cards they receive as institutions. Every September, school administrators find themselves clamoring in anticipation of the latest release of U.S. News & World Report’s

The sun is barely rising in rural Burundi when we begin our medical rounds in the pediatric ward. I am an American, doctoring in this central African nation, far away from my home in northern Ohio. An early start to

Mindy Kaling, one of TV’s most prolific showrunners, is debuting yet another comedy on Netflix, this one loosely based on the life of real-life Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss. Kate Hudson plays the owner of a fictional NBA team

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro claimed Monday to have been the target of a plot to down his plane with missiles by “big mafias” irate at his government’s attempts to hunt them down. “They want to shoot a missile at my

Wildlife rangers will Wednesday begin shooting 90 dolphins stranded on a remote Australian beach, saying the stressed creatures would be euthanised after attempts to refloat them failed. A pod of 157 dolphins from a poorly understood deep-sea species was found

Trump is living in a Russian ‘disinformation space,’ says Zelenskyy  The Associated Press Zelensky says Trump lives in ‘disinformation space’  CNN Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Donald Trump of living in a ‘disinformation bubble’  Financial Times Zelenskyy hits back at Trump’s comments, says Ukraine is

by Alice Philipson and Lam Nguyen Vietnam’s parliament approved plans on Wednesday for an $8 billion rail link from its largest northern port city to the border with China, boosting links between the two communist-ruled countries and making trade easier.

LONDON — Vatican officials said late Tuesday that Pope Francis had developed pneumonia in both lungs, further complicating the pontiff’s recovery. The 88-year-old pope was hospitalized Friday after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened. On Monday, doctors said he had

Brazil’s far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro has been bogged down in legal woes since leaving office, and is now facing a possible high-profile trial while trying to pave a path back to power. Bolsonaro, 69, was on Tuesday formally charged

Employees from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are gaining access to vast amounts of information held by federal agencies, even as lawsuits try to stop them.