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Police are looking for a 17-year-old foreign exchange student who they believe was "forcefully taken" from the home he was sharing with his host family in Utah. In a press conference on Friday, Riverdale Police Chief Casey Warren said that authorities believe that Kai Zhuang, an exchange student from China, was "forcefully taken" and is "being held against his will." Authorities said that Zhuang was last seen at about 3:30 a.m. on Thursday and police were notified of his disappearance by 8:30 p.m. that night. The student was described as 5-feet-9, 150 pounds with black hair and black eyes. Police...

A student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — the site of one of the nation’s worst mass shootings — was savagely beaten by a gang of teens in a brutal caught-on-video attack, which landed the youngster in hospital. The unidentified student was pummeled by at least a half dozen teen thugs before he was picked up and hurled onto the pavement head first near the Parkland, Florida campus — leaving him sprawled out motionless on the ground, video footage posted by TMZ on Wednesday shows.

A 15-year-old boy was stabbed inside a Brooklyn high school by his fellow student Tuesday morning, cops and law enforcement sources said. The teen was knifed in the stomach inside Edward R. Murrow High School on Avenue L near Saul Bruckner Way in Midwood around 9:20 a.m., police and sources said. He was rushed to Maimonides Medical Center’s children’s hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, cops said.

The Supreme Court told Biden he cannot forgive student loans at taxpayer expense for 800,000+ people, but he’s doing it anyway. He’s circumventing the law. Not only is he breaking the spirit of the law, but he’s bragging about it to the people who benefited so he can get their votes. Axios reported: Exclusive: Biden emails 800k student loan borrowers about forgiven debt More than 800,000 student loan borrowers are set to receive a message from President Biden Tuesday afternoon. Why it matters: The email, shared in advance with Axios, is a direct appeal from the president to beneficiaries of...

Dozens of Columbia University students staged a walkout from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's class there on Wednesday in protest of the school’s handling of a truck seen near campus displaying the images of students belonging to groups who signed an anti-Israel statement, a report says. Roughly 30 students of the class of 300 abruptly stood up and left the room a half hour into the lecture on women’s involvement in peace processes hosted by Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), according to The New York Times. The students reportedly...

The most violent posts I have ever seen!😵

The New York University student leader who sent a pro-Hamas message has doubled down on the incendiary rhetoric – despite facing removal as president of the school’s Student Bar Association and losing a lucrative job offer. Ryna Workman, who identifies as non-binary and uses them and they pronouns, said they’d had a “terrible” week since penning a column in the school’s newsletter accusing Israel of holding “full responsibility” for the terrorist attack that claimed at least 1,400 lives. Despite the intense pushback, Workman told The Intercept they will “continue to speak out and show up.”

New York University’s Law Student Bar Association on Wednesday moved to oust its president who had penned a controversial pro-Hamas column in the school’s newsletter, as school brass issued yet another statement condemning the comments. The backlash came a day after group President Ryna Workman posted a message accusing Israel of “state-sanctioned violence” and saying they bore “full responsibility” for the barbaric and highly coordinated terror attacks that killed more than 1,200 civilians Saturday. On Wednesday, members of the Student Bar Association released a statement saying they did not “write, approve, or see this message” before it was published, and...

A disturbing video from Hazlebrook Middle School in Oregon went viral on Thursday that showed a male student who identifies as female violently assaulting a girl in a school hallway. The footage shows the male student dressed as a girl taking the girl by surprise, grabbing her by her backpack, and throwing her backward before grabbing her and forcibly jerking her around by the head. The boy then repeatedly punches her before shouting expletives at her. The boy walks away leaving the girl sobbing as she gets to her feet, panicking so badly that she says she can't breathe. The...

A person was found dead outside a North Carolina State residence hall on Monday - as campus returns following a year that saw 14 student deaths. Students returning to NC State on Monday saw police tape around Sullivan Residence Hall on the Raleigh campus as officers investigated the death of a male student. Last year, NC State saw 14 deaths, including seven by suicide. Two deaths were overdoses, one by car wreck and four were 'natural causes.' Students on campus fear this year may be no different, with another death just two weeks after returning to campus. ‘It gave me...

A grief-stricken family and school are mourning the shocking death of a college student who was shot and killed in Texas this week in an apparently random assault, ABC News reported. Wes Smith, a junior at Texas Christian University, was shot multiple times early Friday while standing on a sidewalk in Fort Worth's West 7th entertainment district, according to a police affidavit. A suspect arrested shortly after the attack allegedly admitted to shooting Smith three times for no discernable reason, according to the affidavit. Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker said Smith was killed "in a senseless act of gun violence."...

A student was killed and another victim injured when gunfire erupted during a high school football game in Louisiana Friday. The shooting broke out during halftime near the audience stands at Port Allen High School’s football field, according to the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office. Two people were struck by bullets: a 16-year-old male student and a 28-year-old woman. A medical helicopter landed on the field and rushed the two victims to the hospital, where the teen was pronounced dead.

The U.S. housing market has been over the past year walloped by high mortgage rates and a worsening inventory shortage.It may soon face another obstacle: Student loan repayments.Real estate experts are bracing for a significant blow to the market when the pandemic-era freeze on federal student loan payments comes to an end this fall, according to a recent poll conducted by Pulsenomics.

One year ago today, millions of student-loan borrowers received the news some of them had been awaiting for decades - up to $20,000 of their student-loan balance would be wiped out. But they have yet to receive that relief. President Joe Biden's announcement was a long time coming. Since he took office, his administration was weighing its options to get relief to borrowers, and Biden himself even questioned his authority to enact broad debt relief. But on August 24, 2022, his administration concluded that he had the authority to cancel student debt for federal borrowers using the HEROES Act of...

March 25, 2021, Rutgers University became the first university in the nation to announce it would require students to take COVID vaccines for fall 2021 enrollment, retracting its January 8, 2021 announcement that “…with our stance of human liberties and our history of protecting that, the vaccine is not mandatory.” What happened within a few short months that made Rutgers ultimately decide to hell with student civil liberties? Rutgers claimed and still does to this day that it has a “commitment to health and safety for all members of its community” even though on July 30, 2021, Rochelle Walensky issued...

(NerdWallet) – Federal student loan repayment resumes in the coming months - interest begins accruing in September, with payments starting in October - after a 3½-year payment pause. According to a new NerdWallet survey, most federal student loan borrowers (88%) didn’t make payments during the pandemic forbearance. If you’re one of these borrowers, here are five steps to prepare for repayment. 1. Know your details 2. Decide on a payment plan 3. Review your budget 4. Understand the downside of not making payments 5. Set up autopay

Progressive firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez carried thousands of dollars in student loan debt last year, new financial disclosures show. During that time, the Bronx and Queens congresswoman was pining for mass student loan cancellation, publicly urging the the Biden administration to use unconstitutional executive action to accomplish it. “I’m 32 years old now,” Ocasio-Cortez complained on the House floor in December 2021. “I have over $17,000 in student loan debt, and I didn’t go to graduate school because I knew that getting another degree would drown me in debt that I would never be able to surpass. This is unacceptable.”...

President Biden on Monday moved forward with his administration’s plan to cancel $39 billion in student loan debt for more than 800,000 borrowers after a judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block the plan. Michigan District Judge Thomas Ludington declared Monday that a lawsuit filed by the Cato Institute and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy against the Department of Education lacks standing, throwing the case out. The institutions argued in the suit that the administration’s plan to forgive loans from borrowers who have been paying back their loans for 20-25 years is unconstitutional and in violation of the Administrative...

A suspect has been arrested for allegedly threatening a California school board president following the approval of a policy that requires administrators to notify parents that their student is transgender... Rebecca Morgan was arrested Tuesday on the suspicion that she was threatening several members of the Chino Valley Unified School Board with violence over their decision to approve a policy that requires educators to notify parents if their child wants to change their gender identity... Chino Valley Unified School Board President Sonja Shaw, who introduced the newly enacted policy, received threats at herself, her pets and her children both over...

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida doesn't support broad student-loan forgiveness. But he does think bankruptcy should be an option for borrowers who cannot afford to pay off their debt. "It's wrong to say that a truck driver should have to pay off the debt of somebody who got a degree in gender studies. This is not the taxpayers that should have to do that," he added. "At the same time, I have sympathy for some of these students because I think they were sold a bill of goods. I think these universities knew that they could take all this federal...