The University of Southern California (USC), one of the eight universities involved in the massive college admissions scandal, is blocking students who are linked to the scam from class registration. “USC has placed holds on the accounts of students who may be associated with the alleged admissions sche...
Why it’s time to change your Facebook password Facebook (FB) is in hot water again. After a year of controversies in 2018, it looked as though the company was ready to turn over a new leaf in 2019. But that was before Brian Krebs of Krebs on Security reported that the social network was storing hundreds...
Some gunemen suspected to be herdsmen, on Thursday in Enugu State, killed one Dr Nnamdi Ogueche, a senior lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka, Anambra State. This came less than 24 hours after the decomposing body of a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Clement Ugwu, was found in a bush. The Enugu Sta...
The captain of the doomed Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 never received updated training on a Boeing 737 Max 8 simulator, even though the airline had the technology available since January, according to a report. The flight crashed earlier this month shortly after takeoff from an airport near Ethiopia...
Some male students at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Maryland have been disciplined after it was discovered they created and shared a list on social media on which they ranked their female classmates based on their looks. According to school officials, the students targeted 18 senior girls by creat...
In 1850, a Swiss-born Harvard University professor commissioned what are believed to be the earliest photos of American slaves. The images, known as daguerreotypes and taken in a South Carolina studio, are crude and dehumanizing – and they were used to promote racist beliefs. Among the photographed: an...
