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Winning admission to Harvard University fulfilled a longtime goal for Yonas Nuguse, a student in Ethiopia who endured the Tigray conflict, internet and phone shutdowns, and the COVID-19 pandemic — all of which made it impossible to finish high school on time.Now, it’s unclear if he will make it this fall to the Ivy League campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He and other admitted students around the world are anxiously tracking the school’s feud with the Trump administration, which is seeking to keep it from enrolling international students. The war in the country’s Tigray region forced schools to close in many…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three decades ago, foreign students at Harvard University accounted for just 11% of the total student body. Today, they account for 26%.Like other prestigious U.S. universities, Harvard for years has been cashing in on its global cache to recruit the world’s best students. Now, the booming international enrollment has left colleges vulnerable to a new line of attack from President Donald Trump. The president has begun to use his control over the nation’s borders as leverage in his fight to reshape American higher education.Trump’s latest salvo against Harvard uses a broad federal law to bar foreign students…

10 no-fluff rules to build your personal brand in 2025 The Futur The most boring person you know is building their personal brand right now. They’re posting daily LinkedIn updates about their morning routine. They’re sharing motivational quotes on Instagram. They’re trying every strategy they see online, and it’s not working. Because they’re listening to conflicting advice from seventeen different gurus, changing their approach every week, and confusing everyone who tries to follow them. Here’s what no one tells you: it doesn’t matter whose advice you take. What matters is that you choose a method and stick to it. Consistency…

NEW YORK (AP) — Strawberry, Blueberry, JoJo and Mazzy were about 6 weeks old when animal rescuers coaxed them out of long metal pipes in the parking lot of a storage unit company. Meatball was a single kitten living in a cold garage with a group of semi-feral adult cats. Spaghetti, Macaroni and Rigatoni, meanwhile, were just 2 weeks old when the good folks of LIC Feral Feeders, a cat rescue in Queens, took them in and bottle-fed them until they were strong enough to survive. Consider these cuties the face of kitten season 2025. Meatball the kitten plays on…

5 ChatGPT prompts to be generally happier more often getty Most people spend hours chasing empty dopamine hits from social media, streaming, and shallow conversations. Anxiety ensues, and they wonder why they aren’t happy. Days slip away on distractions instead of building the life that brings actual joy. Sound like you? What if a few simple prompts could completely transform your daily experience? Happiness requires intention. It’s a simple choice. Stop reacting and start choosing happy. Copy, paste and edit the square brackets in ChatGPT, and keep the same chat window open so the context carries through. ChatGPT prompts to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama has a new book out this fall that offers a fresh take on her public life, a story not of politics but of fashion. Obama announced on social media Thursday that “The Look” will be released Nov. 4 by the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House. With commentators ranging from Obama to stylist Meredith Koop to makeup artist Carl Ray, “The Look” traces Obama’s style choices throughout the rise of her husband, Barack Obama, to the presidency, and into their post-White House years. During her eight years as first lady, fashionistas…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson once clashed on the court in the 2001 NBA Finals, but now the basketball legends are joining forces to revive the Reebok brand they helped make iconic.In the Netflix docuseries, “Power Moves,” which premiered this week, the Hall of Famers swap jerseys for executive titles, with O’Neal stepping in as president of Reebok Basketball while Iverson takes on the role as vice president. The six-episode series offers a behind-the-scenes look at their mission to spark a cultural resurgence for the classic sneaker company.O’Neal, standing 7-foot-1, sees himself as a voice for…

MOKWA, Nigeria (AP) — On May 29, Mallam Hassan Umar stood waist-deep and barefoot in muddy water, his eyes on the remnants of his Arabic school, now reduced to sludge and shattered wood by devastating floods.The Islamic teacher, clutching only the threadbare clothes he escaped with, started shouting the names of the pupils he housed and might never see again. Some pupils tried to escape with him through the back of the house, which also doubled as the school. But that attempt quickly turned perilous. The tightly packed layout of the neighborhood, combined with the absence of a proper drainage…

MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) — Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church near Pittsburgh. The vivid results underscore the original power of the murals, which Vanka painted more than 80 years ago, fusing traditional Catholic iconography with searing social commentary. The team of more than a dozen workers cleaned off grime, extracted corrosive salts from the walls, stabilized plaster and delicately filled in areas of lost paint with new pastels and watercolors. Working on a 32-foot-tall scaffold, art conservator Kate Pirelli works on cleaning a…

MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) — How do you conserve 80-year-old murals that have accumulated decades’ worth of soot, salt and other deterioration?Slowly and carefully, using everything from scientific analysis to seaweed extract to everyday tools — like cosmetic sponges and shish kebab sticks.That was the approach taken by a conservation team as they labored on a section of murals at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church near Pittsburgh.The walls and ceiling of the church are covered with an acclaimed set of murals painted by the late Croatian American artist Maxo Vanka in 1937 and 1941. They mix religious imagery with dramatic depictions…