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4/29/16
TechNews for the week: April 29; April 27; April 25;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Why Al Qaeda thinks ISIS has no future; Airstrike destroys Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, killing staff and patients;
Israel opposes French peace drive; Sweeping Saudi plan threatens to shift foundations of kingdom;
Pakistan PM under pressure over corruption allegations;
The NSA won't tell Congress how many Americans it's spying on because our democracy is broken;
House votes to repeal U.S. retirement rule, Obama threatens veto;
Supreme Court rules on political speech and the First Amendment; Supreme Court allows Texas voter ID law to stand;
Utah Gov. Herbert fails to secure nomination at convention;
Bill to repeal Kansas business tax exemption headed to House;
North Carolina Republican plan to gain a legislative majority; Accidental Republican candor about voter-ID laws;
What All the Candidates' Tax Plans Are Missing ; Fact Checker: Trump's repeats eight falsehoods in 16 hours;
A retired Marine general named 'Mad Dog' could be the GOP's last hope;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
The Problem Of Big Money In Politics For South Carolina;
Finance and Economics
GDP grows to 0.5% in 1st quarter; Teen birth rate hits all-time low;
Bank of Japan Keeps Rates Negative; Yen surges and Japan stocks plunge after BoJ keeps policy on hold;
China Passes Law Putting Foreign NGOs Under Stricter Police Control; China has moved mountains and dammed rivers to pump water to a thirsty Beijing;
Saudi Arabia announces plan to end its 'addiction' to oil; Panama Papers Part 2: The world's dirty laundry becomes searchable;
Series Of Small Earthquakes Causes Hilcorp Fracking Shutdown In PA; Tunisian Startup Develops Bladeless Wind Energy Technology;
These 7 emergency surgeries account for 80 percent of deaths and costs;
Other news
The Social Consequences of Switching to English;
Education:
NAEP Results Show Lower Math Scores, Stagnant Reading Scores; Court tosses Kansas case that tried to challenge science education guidelines;
What Hourly Higher-Ed Employees Made in 2015-16;
State Higher-Education Spending Is Up, but Not Above Pre-Recession Level; $600 Million Cash Infusion May Be Too Late For Illinois Colleges;
Budget Cuts Prompt U. of North Dakota to Eliminate More Than 100 Positions; U. of New Hampshire Concedes It Shouldn't Have Bought $17,000 Table;
What Community Colleges Are Doing to Counteract Declining Enrollments; ED Pushes Accreditors To Focus On Student Outcomes, Troubled Colleges;
How Colleges Are Turning Their Racist Pasts Into Teaching Opportunities;
Coast Guard Cadets Are Punished After Cheating Probe;
Who's Going to Be Punished for the Worst Academic Scandal Anyone Can Remember?
4/22/16
TechNews for the week: April 22; April 20; April 18;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Al-Qaeda affiliate faces unusual backlash from fed-up Syrians; Syria peace talks founder after dispute over transitional government;
A guide to the Islamic States' oil smuggling economy; Russian forces in Syria may have fired on Israeli aircraft;
Israel and Palestinians engage in rare UN shouting match; Netanyahu vows Golan will remain Israel's 'forever'; Syrians reject Israel's vow;
Palestine loses $285m in revenues due to Israel accords; Tourism is the new front in Israeli settlers' battle for legitimacy; The 'Jewish Terrorist Network' In The West Bank;
Samaritans form bridge of peace between Israelis and Palestinians;
Taliban militants carry out deadly attack in Kabul; The path of terrorists sent by ISIS to attack Europe;
Saudis warn of economic reprisals if Congress passes 9/11 bill;
Brazil president Rousseff loses crucial impeachment vote;
New Kansas revenue forecast expected to spur budget changes; lawmakers lose patience with governor's tax cuts; Kansas' Never-Ending Budget Mess;
Texas secession might no longer be a fringe movement; some local GOPs call for statewide vote on secession;
Why Republicans Don't Want D.C. To Become A State;
Close to half of all super PAC money comes from 50 donors;
Rules expert says A party primary 'is not a public decision' ; Ohio Official Blasts 'Sickening' Voting Restriction;
Trump, Clinton win big in home state; What it means that Kasich and Sanders are doing the best in general election polls;
Trump's national field director quits amid major staff changes; Trump campaign shake-up underscores the limits of his loyalty; Trump and the nomination Matrix;
GOP foreign policy elites unsure whether they would serve Trump;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
Judge rules in favor of Beach Co. in Sgt. Jasper appeal;
Citadel Cadet Says He Is Being Punished for Posting About Hijab Uniform Debate;
Finance and Economics
US faces big labour shortage; Many Middle-Class Americans Are Living Paycheck to Paycheck;
Iran's No-Show at Doha Blocks Oil Freeze Deal; Saudis not done inflicting pain on drillers;
China bans Apple services in latest blow to US tech industry; Colorado Looking To Israel For Tools To Succeed In Cybersecurity Market;
One of the nation's largest pension funds could soon cut benefits for retirees; Mapping the $100,000+ Illinois Teacher Pensions Costing Taxpayers Nearly $1.0 Billion;
UnitedHealth Group to exit Obamacare exchanges in all but a 'handful' of states;
Senate Passes Broad Energy Infrastructure Modernization Bill; Senate Democrats Block Effort To Stop Clean Water Rule;
Small Modular Reactors Proposed As A Way To Save The Nuclear Industry;
Volkswagen Reaches Settlement With US Over Emissions Cheating;
Supreme Court Won't Hear Challenge to Google Books Project ;
78 Sears, Kmart stores to close;
Other news
Slogans have Replaced Arguments;
U.S. suicide rate rises, especially for middle-aged white women;
Education:
Many Colleges Profited From Slavery. Now They Must Reconcile That Past;
Utah State Board Of Education Adopts New K-6 Math Standards;
A New Test-Prep Venture; Automated Engines Score Essays Like Humans;
ED's College Navigator, Scorecard Faulted For Lack Of Information For Military College Students;
For-Profit Colleges Seek Reprieve on 'Gainful Employment' Rule; Federal Judge: CFPB Has No Authority To Investigate For-Profit Accreditors;
Accrediting Council For Independent Colleges And Schools Replaces CEO; Interim Head Promises Reform;
Legislators Approve $600 Million to Help Illinois Colleges Stay Afloat; Colleges Turning To Crowdsourcing for funds;
How Missouri's Leadership Scrambled to Quell a Campus Crisis; Colleges try to manipulate search results;
The Pentagon Wants to Expand University Research Ties;
NCAA Blocks 23 Teams From Postseason Play for Poor Academic Performance; More Semesters for Athletes, Fewer Academic Problems;
4/15/16
TechNews for the week: April 15; April 13; April 11;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Iraqi forces push Islamic State out of key city in Anbar province; Weeks after 'pullout' from Syria, Russian military is as busy as ever;
Iraq MPs vote to sack speaker, deepening political turmoil; Iraqi PM Abadi warns political crisis could hamper war on Islamic State;
Israeli minister says Netanyahu government at risk of collapse; Is Israel moving toward a Palestinian-free Knesset;
China May Be the Big Winner in the Pentagon's Newest Spying Scandal;
Supreme Court Proposes a Compromise for the First Time Since Brown v. Board of Education ;
Obama can appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court if the Senate does nothing; Suit challenging Cruz eligibility reaches Supreme Court;
Circuit court judge strikes down Wisconsin right-to-work law; state to appeal;
Democratic Party and Clinton campaign to sue Arizona over voting rights; ACLU asks federal court to block Kansas voter ID law;
Utah GOP says it won't comply with 'unconstitutional' election law; GOP committeemen ousted for voting Democratic;
Republican leaders consider rewriting convention rules; GOP officials: Rules changes unlikely before July convention;
Brownback delays $92.6 million Kansas Public Employees Retirement System payment; Brownback declares war on Kansas: This is how extremists gut a state - and democracy;
Illinois politicians win. Illinois voters lose; Florida gov. reacts to Starbucks critic with attack ad;
Chicago police force plagued by racial bias and 'justified' lack of community trust;
Simpson-Bowles say Grover Norquist is a fraud;
Portrait of Trump's giving shows free golf, but no personal cash;
Bernie Sanders just shattered an American taboo on Israel;
Dems joke: We're 'shocked' GOP can't pass a budget;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
Lawmakers Shouldn't Fall For a Not-So-Bright Proposal;
Pascoe fires back; accuses Wilson of publicity stunts to discredit probe; SC Supreme Court says Wilson-Pascoe dispute is public;
Charleston would rather study the problem of homelessness than solve it ;
Justice Ministry and city officials remain at odds over North Charleston policing practices forum;
Opinion: Roads, Roads, Roads;
Finance and Economics
Weekly jobless claims down 13K to 253,000; Failing Infrastructure Harming US Competitiveness;
China GDP growth slips to 6.7%; eliminates exporter subsidies; China Isn't Quite the Economic Headache Presidential Candidates Want it To Be;
Panama Papers reveal a perilous world for U.S. tax cheats;
U.S. regulators fail 'living wills' at five of eight big banks; How much money tech companies have stashed overseas;
EU Commission delays decision on Canada, U.S. visas to July 12;
Women Leave STEM Jobs, Citing Issues With Bureaucracy, Hierarchy;
In Iowa corn fields, Chinese national's seed theft exposes vulnerability;
Almost 1,400 Water Systems Have Exceed Federal Lead Standards Since 2013.; GAO: EPA Has Failed To Safeguard Drinking Water From Energy Wastewater;
2010 BP Oil Spill Leds to New Offshore Drilling Rules; Exxon Says New Regulations To Cost $25 Billion Over 10 Years;
Senators move to end tax bills that come with some student-loan forgiveness;
Tech Companies Scramble For Lithium As Prices Skyrocket;
Other news
The difference between how intelligent and less-intelligent people lie;
The Citadel considers a first uniform exception: Allowing a Muslim hijab;
America wasn't quite as great as Donald Trump thinks it was;
Education:
What Higher-Education Professionals Made in 2015-16; Faculty Salaries Show Strong Recovery From Recession;
We May Know Less Than We Thought About What Helps or Hurts Students; Rebuilding the Bachelor's Degree; How a Google Spreadsheet Saved My Literature Class;
4-Part Plan Seeks to Fix Mathematics Education; Students May Learn More In Morning Math Classes;
In Admission Decisions, the Deciders' Own Backgrounds Play a Big Role; Report Ties State Aid to Improved Graduation Rates;
Illinois Fiscal Standoff Pushes Chicago State University To The Brink; UC Berkeley Cutting 500 Positions To Cope With Budget Deficit;
Career College With Several Midwestern Campuses Will Close;
AGs Call On ED To Revoke Corinthian Accreditor's Recognition;
New steps help people with disabilities pay student loans;
West Virginia Governor Vetoes Anti-Common Core Legislation; Teacher: What third-graders are being asked to do on 2016 Common Core test;
Missouri's R. Bowen Loftin Doesn't Really Have a Job - but He's Still Getting Paid;
Students Were Mad Their College Banned Yik Yak. So They Went on Yik Yak;
Coaches Support Athletes' Desire for More Time Away From Sports; Illinois Will Pay $625,000 to Settle 2 Athletics Lawsuits;
4/8/16
TechNews for the week: April 8; April 6; April 4;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
U.S.-led strikes are putting a financial squeeze on ISIS; Syrian troops take another IS-controlled town; Islamic State attacks Syrian forces near Damascus;
Syria: ISIS abducts 300 workers near Damascus; Syria's Assad shows no willingess to compromise;
Iraq puts northern offensive against Islamic State on hold; As Iraqi forces close in on Mosul, ISIS lashes out;
The Saudis are turning up the heat on the terrorist group Hezbollah;
Azerbaijan announces ceasefire in breakaway region;
Israel's war on the Arabic language;
Massive leak reveals money rings of global leaders; The Panama Papers; The Names in the Panama Papers; Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens;
Prime minister of Iceland to resign in wake of Panama Papers scandal;
Supreme Court: Feds Can't Seize Untainted Assets Needed For Legal Fees; Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge to 'one person, one vote';
Your Taxes Are Being Spent on Making It Harder for Americans to Vote;
This Is How Hard It Is To Get A Voter ID In Wisconsin; The conservative gladiator from Kansas behind restrictive voting laws;
State Department says halts review of Clinton emails at FBI request;
House GOP's 2010 'Tea Party' Class Heads For The Exits; House Dem rips Freedom Caucus for wanting to cut spending;
Relentless property tax debate riles some Nebraska senators; North Carolina's Republican Party has declared war on itself;
In fatal shootings by police, 1 in 5 officers' names go undisclosed; New York's top state cop resigns abruptly;
2 political scientists have found a key reason Republicans and Democrats see politics so differently;
Trump reveals how he would force Mexico to pay for border wall; Internal memo reveals Trump campaign's mounting fury with its critics;
Clinton prepares for Trump's insult machine;
GOP nominee Ted Cruz should worry 2016 Republicans, too;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
Soul of Legislature May Be Up For Grabs In June; South Carolina bill aims to limit transgender access to bathrooms; Haley slams Lt. Gov. McMaster on ethics bill;
GOP Delegate Drama;
Finance and Economics
The fallout from Panama Papers revelations so far, country by country; Offshore Accounts Hold a Tenth of the Stock Market;
Right-wing Swiss finance minister offers defense for rich caught up in Panama Papers;
Puerto Rico passes debt moratorium bill;
Chances of a recession? Not what you'd think.; STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER: 'This is the most unsustainable situation I have ever seen in my career';
A bucket of cold water for those who are bullish about stocks;
Residents in These 8 States Are Getting Creamed by State and Local Taxes; Pay Gap: Women face this $430,000 penalty;
U.S. Firms Stampede Immigration Services to Hire Skilled Foreigners;
More Than 200 Current, Former Lawmakers File Brief Supporting Clean Power Plan; Tech Giants Back EPA's Clean Power Plan;
Clean Power Plan Receives Some Unexpected Utility Support; Utility Bills Rising On Infrastructure Costs Despite Falling Power Prices;
Fracking-Related Earthquake "Justifies" Regulations, Not Bans; The debate over fracking explained;
New US inversion rules threaten Pfizer-Allergan deal; Pfizer and Allergan call off mega-merger; US regulator sues to block Halliburton Baker Hughes deal;
Deal On Renewable Energy Tax Breaks In FAA Bill; Senate votes against amendment seeking new standards on airplane legroom;
Boeing sales at risk due to U.S. EXIM paralysis;
Missouri Regulators Take Different Approach To Two Transmission Line Projects;
Ivanka Trump scarves recalled over 'burn risk';
Other news
How to Ask for a Recommendation;
Trump Is the Ignorant Candidate Ignorant Americans Deserve;
Education:
Higher-Ed Salaries; Remedial Courses Cost Students $1.5 Billion;
The probabilities of stepping into an elite school hold shrinking;
Are Colleges Teaching the Right Skills; Google's 'Education Evangelist': Students Are Changing Faster Than Colleges;
3 Ways Professors Can Balance Teaching Practical and Theoretical Skills; Female Engineering Students Often Derailed By Calculus;
As Tuition Costs Escalate, College Endowments Come Under Scrutiny; When States Tie Money to Colleges' Performance, Low-Income Students May Suffer;
Increase In Federal Financial Aid Offsets State Higher Education Cuts;
States Bypassing Congress With Different Laws On Eligibility Of Undocumented Immigrants For Financial Aid;
Unionizing Pays Big Dividend for Professors at Regional Public Universities;
UC Irvine to launch first-of-its-kind official e-sports initiative in the fall; Arizona State Promotes Its Small-College Appeal;
The Calculated Value of a President With a STEM Degree ; Princeton Will Keep Woodrow Wilson's Name on School and Dorm;
Federal Agents Set Up a Fake University; Inside the Elaborate Web Presence of the Government's Fake University;
U. of Phoenix Will Lay Off 470 Employees;
NCAA votes to prohibit satellite camps; NCAA says Former U. of Southern Mississippi Coach Directed Cheating Ring;
4/1/16
TechNews for the week: April 1; March 30; March 28;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
ISIL suicide attackers storm army base in Iraq; Iraq: Abadi Reshuffles Cabinet at Pressure from Sadr, Parliament;
Syria's government reportedly seizes control of Palmyra from Islamic State; Palmyra falls as the caliphate is pushed back in Iraq and Syria;
How Russian special forces are shaping the fight in Syria; Syrian militia is gaining ground;
War between the military and Kurdish insurgents is really about what it means to be Turkish;
Saudi war crimes in Yemen yet the United States, Britain, France continue to ship it arms;
Pakistani Taliban faction claims Easter park bombing; Pakistan plans new paramilitary crackdown;
Israel's next steps in the West Bank; Israel under fire for bulldozing Bedouin village for second time in two weeks on West Bank;
Israel supreme court strikes down landmark gas deal; Israel named as world's top human rights violator;
Israel's Public Relations War in the US: The Occupation of the American Mind; Israel Lobby's Agenda for the U.S.: Attack Free Speech and Criminalize Resistance;
Brussels: The scariest thing is our reaction to it;
What the SCOTUS fight is really about; Supreme Court deadlocks; unable to reach decision on key labor union case;
Conservative groups threaten Sen. Moran after he calls for Supreme Court hearings;
A GOP congressman is railing against Congress for not backing a bill to fight voter suppression; Wisconsin throws up major voter registration hurdle;
Feds resume a controversial program that lets cops take stuff and keep it;
LA Republicans railing against taxes they helped raise;
Georgia governor vetoes religious bill legalizing anti-gay discrimination; Maine governor refuses to swear-in newly elected senator;
D.C. Madam's Attorney Says Call Log Bombshell Could Upend 2016 Race; Election Bombshell Already Online;
Cruz blames Trump for National Enquirer story about affairs; Conservative radio host firebombs Donald Trump in brutal interview;
Kasich quest angering GOP;
Trump's Threat To Sue GOP Over Louisiana Delegates; Trump steps back from Republican support pledge; Trump urges abortion 'punishment,' then backtracks;
Voter party switching sows primary intrigue in Pennsylvania;
How Hillary Clinton's email scandal took root;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
Lawmakers Need Courage to Move State Forward;
Should We Settle For A Gas Station?
Finance and Economics
U.S. added 215,000 jobs in March as jobless rate rose slightly to 5 percent; How Big Is the Underground Economy in America;
America's Missing $15 Billion in Corporate Taxes; Wells Fargo plans quiet assault on Wall Street from glass tower;
China wants a national electricity grid. Unlike the US, China's just building it;
Study: America Needs More Skilled Immigrant Workers; H-1B Visa Hires Overwhelmingly Come From India;
GE is using 3D printing to unleash the biggest revolution in large-scale manufacturing in over a century; 3D printing: The trends that will change the game in 2016;
Texas Regulators Challenge Army Corps Fracking Ban;
Other news
The spread of US slavery, in one haunting map;
The Evolution Of The White House Spin Machine;
Education:
Tenured and Tenure-Track Professors Salaries at 4-Year Colleges in 2015-16;
More Colleges Turn to 'Stackable' Degrees as Entries to Graduate Programs; Honors Colleges Promise Prestige, but They Don't All Deliver;
How Sal Khan Hopes to Remake Education; Purdue Approves New Competency-based Bachelor's Degree; Once a Small-College Champion, Now thinks some should close;
Record-Breaking Numbers of Applicants? Don't Gloat; Audit: California System Enrolls Too Many Out-of-State Students;
'Coddled' students and their 'safe spaces' aren't the problem, college official says. Bigots are.; How North Carolina's Ban on Anti-Bias Ordinances Could Affect Colleges;
Chicago State meltdown? Democrats' fault, Rauner says; Why the Budget Stalemate in Illinois Is Hitting One University Especially Hard;
Kentucky Governor Orders Immediate Cut in Funds to Universities; Florida's Governor Says Yale Should Move to His State;
President of 2-Year College Is Suspended Amid Financial Investigation; Faculty Unions in Minnesota Say New Cellphone Rule Violates Privacy;
College of Charleston: How a syllabus sparked a war between a professor and his college;
Scholars Debate Whether Teaching Algebra Is Worthwhile;
Report Reveals Security Breaches in SATs Administered Overseas;
Cheating Incidents Blemish NCAA's Marquee Event;