Six months after news broke that the New School was offering voluntary retirement and severance packages to large number of faculty and staff, the New York university has handed out layoff notices to around 15 percent of its employees.
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Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
4 June 2026
District changes included a requirement of administration approval of materials being handed out on campus, and requiring the club sponsor to meet any club visitor in the front office and escort them to and from the meeting location.
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Maven Navarro
June 3,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 June 2026
Microsoft said the improved qubit stability, combined with operation speeds measured in microseconds and extremely small qubit dimensions, has strengthened its confidence in reaching a scalable quantum computer by the end of the decade.
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Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
2 June 2026
Previously, the agency measured the earnings of program graduates four years after completion against the wages of working adults with high school diplomas.
To prevent this, hospitals attempt to track each pill or vial from the moment it is dispensed to the moment it is given to a patient, by comparing data from electronic medication cabinets and patients' health records.
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Brett Kelman,
CBS News,
1 June 2026
Overwhelming scientific evidence shows that mifepristone is safe and effective, whether the drug is dispensed via telehealth or at an in-person doctor’s visit.
—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
27 May 2026
More than $200 billion in Covid relief loans and grants was most likely doled out to fraudsters from March 2020 to January 2022, according to government reports.
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Rich Schapiro,
NBC news,
3 June 2026
Since 2015, the program has doled out funds to nonprofits that are considered high-risk targets for violence and hate crimes due to their ideology, beliefs or mission.
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast is a program of The Windham-Campbell Prizes, which are administered by Yale University Library’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
After the independent board, a three-member group administered by the state Board of Education, vacated the disqualification, the NCHSAA board of directors called an emergency meeting Tuesday morning to review the matter and named Mallard Creek as co-champions.
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Christopher Kamrani,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
The jackpot hasn’t been hit in more than a month, rolling over since May 2, when tickets in Texas and Florida split a $20 million prize.
—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
7 June 2026
The Stanley Cup Final shifted to Las Vegas for Game 3 with the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes knotted at 1-1 after splitting the opening two games in Raleigh.
Shaped by the anticlerical violence of the country’s 1936-1939 civil war, the church has dealt more recently with a credibility crisis over revelations of decades of clergy abuse and cover-up.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
6 June 2026
Earlier in the day, the Marlins were dealt another blow to their rotation when it was announced that top prospect Thomas White is expected to miss the remainder of the season after suffering a left shoulder capsular sprain last month.
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