It was an unusually warm day in the seaside town of Portoroz, and Leida Ruvina was growing suspicious. The doctoral program she had been enrolled in for weeks had all the signs of a sham—the campus was a small, shabby building rented out from a tourist school and the French translation for “Euro-Mediterranean” in the university’s seal was misspelled.
Ruvina raised her hand to ask the university’s president what was going on, and he assured her that everything was in order. He then complimented her on her fluent English and offered to advise her on her dissertation thesis. “If you want, I can be your mentor,” she recalled him telling her in an awkward exchange as he steered the conversation away from questions about the university’s legitimacy.
The criminal trial related to hush money payments has been denied by Judge Juan Merchan, who cited concerns about protecting witnesses and the integrity...
Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, died from a "sudden, fast-spreading infection," the Seattle Times reported.
Data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed that thousands of illegal immigrants have been flown to at least 45 cities in the United States.
An Arizona grand jury indicted 18 Republicans for "falsely" declaring that Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Arizona's popular vote during the 2020 presidential election.
