August 19, 2026 Harvard agrees to $53M settlement with families after donated body parts were stolen, sold on black market Harvard University agreed to pay $53 million to settle lawsuits after former morgue manager Cedric Lodge stole and sold donated human remains.
August 19, 2026 Penn State frat cocaine ring suspects allegedly used Cash App, Snapchat to arrange drug deals Court complaints reveal Agostino Abbatiello's alleged drug ring used Cash App and Snapchat to facilitate cocaine sales across Penn State fraternities.
August 18, 2026 Penn State frat coke ring's alleged ringleader denied bail after missing arraignment, turning himself in Agostino Abbatiello of Westbury, New York, was denied bail after turning himself in as the alleged ringleader of a Penn State fraternity cocaine trafficking ring.
August 18, 2026 DOJ opens probe into prestigious college over alleged discrimination favoring minority students The Department of Justice is probing whether the College of William & Mary's scholarships and programs favor racial minorities in violation of Title VI.
August 17, 2026 Penn State cocaine bust nets 14 arrests over alleged pledge coke-cutting ‘indoctrination' rituals More than a dozen Penn Staters face charges after students allegedly cut and packaged cocaine inside Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi frat houses.
August 17, 2026 Harvard, NYU among 30 universities hit with Pentagon foreign-tie audit deadline The Pentagon ordered 30 universities to audit foreign ties or risk losing federal funding, targeting entities linked to China, Russia and Iran.
August 16, 2026 Berkeley math professor sounds alarm on liberal 'test-blind' policies, warns many students badly behind A Berkeley professor attacked the University of California system's "test-blind" policies as calamitous, noting students were arriving on campus unable to do basic math.
August 16, 2026 Hasan Piker torched over playbook to dodge his past controversies: 'Bats--- crazy' Shannon Watts accused Hasan Piker of deflecting past controversial remarks, sparking a heated exchange over Democrats' responsibility for rhetoric.
August 15, 2026 Bernie-backed California House candidate called DEI a ‘social justice-driven duty,’ embraced activist role Bernie Sanders-backed California candidate Randy Villegas promoted DEI as a "social justice-driven duty" in his academic writings on community colleges.
August 15, 2026 Justice Thomas reveals this elite institution is ‘off limits’ to him: ‘That's the world we're in’ Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claims Stanford Law School is "off limits" for conservatives, but a spokesperson says the school would be honored to host him.