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(MASSACHUSETTS) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced on Wednesday that students with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend the Cambridge institution tuition-free starting next fall.The bulk of American households meet this income threshold, according to the university, which says the new policy will cover 80% of its incoming classes.Additionally, students whose family income is below $100,000 will see their entire MIT experience paid for, including tuition, housing, […]

(ATHENS, Ga.) -- The suspect accused of murdering Laken Riley on the University of Georgia's campus was found guilty by a judge on all charges Wednesday, including malice murder and felony murder.He was sentenced by the judge to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the maximum possible.Prosecutors called the evidence against the suspect "overwhelming," while the defense raised the theory that the defendant could be an accomplice but […]

Libby March/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ROCHESTER, N.Y.) -- Four University of Rochester students were arrested and another is under investigation for allegedly being involved with the antisemitic "Wanted" posters found on campus.The posters were discovered last week in classrooms and other buildings and targeted Jewish members of the community, according to university officials.The four unidentified suspects, who were arrested Tuesday, will be charged with felony criminal mischief, according to University of Rochester […]

ABC News (BELLEVUE, Wash.) -- Two people have been killed by falling trees in Washington state as a powerful storm hits the Pacific Northwest.In Bellevue, a tree fell into a home, hitting and killing a woman while she was in the shower Tuesday night, Bellevue fire officials said.In Lynwood, a woman in her 50s was killed when a tree fell on a homeless encampment, officials said.More than 500,000 customers are […]

(CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) -- Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space when she made a remarkable discovery.Barber used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to observe the brightness of stars over time. During the observations, Barber noticed some "little dips" in brightness, indicating that a "transiting" planet may be passing near Earth."This planet discovery popped […]

(WASHINGTON) -- As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, one of his first orders of business will be to decide about the fate of TikTok in the United States -- and some of his cabinet appointees appear to be split on the issue.Sources familiar with the president-elect's thinking told ABC News that he may try to stop the ban of the popular social media app, which according to a new law must […]

(ATHENS, Ga.) -- The suspect accused of murdering Laken Riley on the University of Georgia's campus was found guilty on all charges Wednesday, including malice murder and felony murder.Prosecutors called the evidence against the suspect "overwhelming," while the defense raised the theory that the defendant could be an accomplice but not the killer during closing arguments in his trial.Jose Ibarra, 26, was accused of killing the 22-year-old nursing student while she was […]

(AUSTIN, Texas) -- Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is offering the incoming Trump administration 1,402 acres it purchased along the Texas-Mexico border to be used in a mass deportation operation.In a letter to President-elect Donald Trump, Buckingham said she's offering the land "to be used to construct deportation facilities."The Texas General Land Office purchased the plot of land from a farmer in October to facilitate Texas' efforts to build a […]

Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC (NEW YORK) -- President-elect Donald Trump's criminal hush money conviction in New York must be dismissed "to facilitate the orderly transition of Executive power," Trump's defense attorneys argued Wednesday in a letter to the court.Defense attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove -- both of whom Trump nominated last week to top DOJ posts in his new administration -- sought the judge's permission to file a motion to dismiss the case."Continuing with […]