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Students at the University of Chicago are rallying to repeal the 1958 Onion Futures Act to give onion producers a tool that corn and wheat growers already have.

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Tulane harassment orderNEW ORLEANS — A federal court in Louisiana partially granted Tulane University’s request for a protective order preventing a self-represented student from sending “harassing” communications to employees and administrators of its disability office in connection with her ADA lawsuit. The court orders the student to communicate only with university counsel…

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Top Economist Says Elon Musk Needs to 'Pay More Taxes,' Not Just Donate SpaceX SharesA world-renowned economist said Monday that Elon Musk's pledge to donate a share of his company, SpaceX, to every American child is not nearly enough to redress the exploding wealth inequality that he personifies . Gabriel Zucman, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a leading inequality expert, wrote in a series of social media…

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UNC settles Trump administration probesThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has reached an agreement with the Trump administration to close 19 federal investigations into the school over alleged concerns of antisemitism and race discrimination. In the deal, UNC admits to no wrongdoing and pays no money to the administration but agrees to standards the Trump administration...

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Crowd Swells in Albania as Violent Protests Enter Second WeekAnti-government protests led by university and high school students entered a second week in Albania, with demonstrators showing no signs of backing down from their demands for political change.

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They killed with their big rigs. The DMV routinely did nothingAfter Baljit Singh killed a 26-year-old man on a motorcycle with his semitruck, the California Department of Motor Vehicles didn’t suspend his commercial drivers license. Eleven months later, he crashed his truck again, killing Jenny Chow, a mother of two on the way home from visiting colleges with her son. The DMV still didn’t take […]

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Iran, China & Russia Look to Seize on Election Opportunity, Says Mara RudmanMara Rudman, senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center and former US State Department official, said that one of the challenges facing the United States is that President Trump sees himself as 'part of the club' of leaders including Putin and Xi. Rudman said that countries like Iran, China and Russia are looking to 'maximize the…

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Red Districts in Range for DemocratsOn the early edition of Balance of Power, Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz discuss the latest from the White House. On today's show, Fortius Global CEO Jim Messina, Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center Visiting Democracy Fellow Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, Jersey 1st Founder Rosemary Becchi and University of Virginia Miller Center…

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Serves Up an Analysis Not Fit for New York Times VideoNikole Hannah-Jones—the New York Times magazine staff writer, MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant winner, 1619 Project Pulitzer Prize winner, and Howard University faculty member—is out with a new analysis of New York City education policy that faults “school choice” for creating inequality in the city’s schools while also complaining that some of the…

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