Once struggling with English and considering dropping out, a Vietnamese student studied relentlessly and has earned admission to Tsinghua University’s highly competitive interdisciplinary master's ...

A Long Island high school principal dropped thousands of dollars on steak-and-lobster dinners, boozy staff parties and jet-ski rentals using funds meant for a youth mentor program, a scathing audit ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin city officials say recent efforts to lower crime in local parks have been successful. Trailers with security cameras were placed in the parking lots of 15 city parks between ...

Exxel Pacific’s safety program is built on collaboration and proactive planning. One innovative idea came from an employee: holding Dropped Object Prevention meetings every six floors on high-rise ...

For more than 25 years, stories about a mysterious deep shaft known as “Mel’s Hole” have circulated online and on late-night radio. Despite dramatic claims of extreme depth and unusual behavior, no ...

A new robotic hand resembles a beloved character from the Addams Family franchise. Like the sentient human hand called Thing, the mechanical limb can scurry around and operate on its own—in ways a ...

The staff running the federal World Trade Center Health Program has dropped by 25% as the number of sick 9/11 survivors the group treats is expected to increase by 10,000 this year, the Daily News has ...

An international team, utilizing the Subaru Telescope and its SCExAO system, reported the discovery of a massive planet (HIP 54515 b) and a brown dwarf (HIP 71618 B), representing the initial findings ...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Prosecutors dropped a felony charge against a Miami-Dade condo security guard who had been accused of attacking a senior, according to court records. Records show it came ...

Kelly Hancock (right) joins the Texas Comptroller’s Office on June 19 as an interim replacement for Glenn Hegar (left). Hancock this week announced emergency rules dropping minority- and women-owned ...

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