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Police advance on pro-Palestinian demonstrators after defying orders to leave at an encampment on the UCLA campus, in Los Angeles, May 2, 2024. Colleges and universities have long been protected places for free expression without pressure or punishment. But protests over Israel's conduct of the war in Gaza in its hunt for Hamas after the Oct. 7 massacre has tested that ideal around the world. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

The Israel-Hamas war is testing whether campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest

By Laurie Kellman and Jocelyn Gecker - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Cambridge University Library on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, a view of the Tree of Life Sketch in one of naturalist Charles Darwin's notbeooks which have recently been returned after going missing in 2001, in Cambridge, England. Two of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University's library have been returned, two decades after they disappeared. (Stuart Roberts/Cambridge University Library via AP)

Darwin notebooks missing for 20 years returned to Cambridge

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Darwin notebooks reported stolen from Cambridge library

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Stefan Halper chose British soil to introduce himself in early July 2016 to Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page (pictured), who became the target of an FBI wiretap the following October. Mr. Page told The Washington Times that the July meeting was his first of several encounters with Mr. Halper. (Associated Press)

Stefan Halper, Trump-Russia figure, to skip public appearance

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson speaks to the Oxford Union during a May 2018 Q&A session. The full event was uploaded to YouTube on June 24, 2018. (Image: YouTube, Oxford Union screenshot) ** FILE **

Jordan B. Peterson triggers Cambridge profs; university rescinds visiting fellowship offer

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 24, 2016 file photo, US biochemical engineer Frances Arnold, speaks after winning the Millennium Technology Prize 2016 during the awards ceremony in Helsinki, Finland. Frances Arnold, US, George P Smith US and Gregory P Winter of Britain have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva via AP)

The Latest: Nobel chemistry winner credits team at Caltech

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Grime star Stormzy launches scholarship for black students

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently testified to Congress about the company's data privacy policies. Facebook reportedly acknowledged that it shared user data with several Chinese handset manufacturers, including Huawei, a company flagged by U.S. intelligence officials as a national security threat, Lenovo, Oppo and TCL. (Associated Press/File)

Cambridge Analytica testimony dominated by heated exchanges

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In this May 25, 2017, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the commencement address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Facebook apologizes for Cambridge Analytica scandal in newspaper ads

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An advertisement in The New York Times is displayed on Sunday, March 25, 2018, in New York. Facebook’s CEO apologized for the Cambridge Analytica scandal with ads in multiple U.S. and British newspapers Sunday. The ads signed by Mark Zuckerberg say the social media platform doesn’t deserve to hold personal information if it can’t protect it. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Facebook ads apologize for Cambridge Analytica scandal

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An advertisement in The New York Times is displayed on Sunday, March 25, 2018, in New York. Facebook’s CEO apologized for the Cambridge Analytica scandal with ads in multiple U.S. and British newspapers Sunday. The ads signed by Mark Zuckerberg say the social media platform doesn’t deserve to hold personal information if it can’t protect it. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

The Latest: Facebook questioned about scraping phone data

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An advertisement in The New York Times is displayed on Sunday, March 25, 2018, in New York. Facebook’s CEO apologized for the Cambridge Analytica scandal with ads in multiple U.S. and British newspapers Sunday. The ads signed by Mark Zuckerberg say the social media platform doesn’t deserve to hold personal information if it can’t protect it. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Facebook faces scrutiny for pulling Android call, text data

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

FILE- In this April 12, 2016, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the company's 10-year roadmap during the keynote address at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco. Facebook is taking baby steps for now to address the latest privacy scandal after news broke Friday, March 16, 2018, that Cambridge Analytica may have used data improperly obtained from roughly 50 million Facebook users to try to sway elections. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

The Latest: Facebook takes baby steps on privacy

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Chief Executive of Cambridge Analytica (CA) Alexander Nix, leaves the offices in central London, Tuesday March 20, 2018. Cambridge Analytica, has been accused of improperly using information from more than 50 million Facebook accounts. It denies wrongdoing. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

Facebook’s Zuckerberg apologizes for ‘major breach of trust’

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In this March 15, 2013, file photo, a Facebook employee walks past a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

The Latest: Zuckerberg says it’s time to regulate tech firms

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Britain's Professor Stephen Hawking receives the Honorary Freedom of the City of London during a ceremony at the Guildhall in the City of London. Cambridge University has put Stephen Hawking's doctoral thesis online on Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, triggering such interest that it crashed the university's website. Completed in 1966 when Hawking was 24, "Properties of Expanding Universes" explores ideas about the origins of the universe that have resonated through the scientists career. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file)

Stephen Hawking died at age of 76

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In this Feb. 25, 2012, file photo, Professor Stephen Hawking poses beside a lamp titled "black hole light" by inventor Mark Champkins, presented to him during his visit to the Science Museum in London. Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, died early Wednesday, March 18, 2018, a University of Cambridge spokesman said. He was 76. (Anthony Devlin/PA via AP)

Stephen Hawking, tourist of the universe, dead at 76

By RAPHAEL SATTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 30, 2015 file photo, Professor Stephen Hawking poses for photographers upon arrival for the Interstellar Live show at the Royal Albert Hall in central London. Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, has died, a family spokesman said early Wednesday, March 14, 2018.(Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

Stephen Hawking, best-known physicist of his time, has died

By ROBERT BARR - Associated Press

English playwright William Shakespeare. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Shakespeare ‘trigger warnings’ at Cambridge rile experts: ‘Learn to be a bit resilient’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this April 10, 2014, file photo, a Malaysia Airlines crew walks into a check in area at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia. New Malaysia Airlines CEO, Christoph Mueller, 52, comes to the post fresh from a stint reviving Ireland’s Aer Lingus. Mueller will be the first foreigner to head the Malaysian state-owned company. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul, File)

New Malaysia Airlines CEO a “battle hardened” veteran

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press