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Former Stanford Student Brock Turner Loses Appeal for New Sexual Assault Trial

Facebook’s Chief Security Officer, Alex Stamos, has left the company as it faces intensifying scrutiny for the platform’s user data practices.

Gretchen Carlson, chairwoman of the now-swimsuit-free Miss America, would very much like you to know that she isn’t just a pretty face. She also has a degree from Stanford and spent a year studying Virginia Woolf at Oxford.

Following sharp criticism, Stanford University has reversed an earlier decision to prohibit the student-run College Republicans from using the American flag in the official logo of their association. The university will now permit the College Republicans to print tee-shirts with

Stanford University has rejected a proposal for a new logo by the College Republicans, saying that the logo contains an image of the American flag, which violates university policy.

Stanford University announced this semester that male students are banned from the university gym twice a week in order to promote “inclusivity.”

Stanford University has introduced male-free hours at the gym, allegedly to produce a more inclusive atmosphere where women can train without the annoying presence of men.

Brookings Institution research confirms that the San Francisco Bay Area has the highest income inequality levels in the United States.

On Sunday the Alabama Media Group placed an above-the-fold editorial in the state’s three largest newspapers which it owns–the Birmingham News, Mobile’s Press Register, and the Huntsville Times–and its al.com website, urging voters in the state to support the liberal

Libertarian Internet pioneer Peter Thiel is not the only one concerned about the danger to freedom from tech monopolies like Google.

Popular LGBT groups GLAAD and The Human Rights Campaign are attacking the scientific researchers who created A.I. that can detect whether a person is gay or straight from photos.

Stanford University will introduce a course this fall which will task students with considering “abolishing whiteness” and the ultimate goal of understanding “what is the future of whiteness,” according to the institution’s course catalog.

Stanford University professor and researcher John J. Donohue suggested Wednesday that it is “much more common that an unarmed person will stop a mass shooting than an armed citizen will.”

Stanford prof. John Donahue claims states with “right to carry” for concealed carry permit issuance experience higher rates of violent crime.

Moody’s credit rating service warned on Wednesday that new tax hikes by Illinois’ Democrat-controlled legislature, which over-rode a Republican governor’s veto, may still leave the state insolvent and subject to its debt being the first in the nation to be downgraded to “junk.”

A Stanford University professor predicts that humans will stop procreating through sex within the next thirty years.

A Stanford University study shows the surges in handgun purchases that occur after a mass attack are characterized by a large number of female buyers and “first gun buyers.”

Ziad Ahmed, a teenage left-wing activist and Muslim who will begin his studies in the Current Year, reportedly “inspired” staff at Stanford.

TEL AVIV – A freshman at Stanford University condemned the academic institution for providing students who were adversely affected from the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president with a “vast network” of support while failing to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic acts.

A new study ranked Tel Aviv University among the top schools producing billion-dollar startups.

Despite the rising panic over the solvency of California public pension plans, CalPERS’ annual report no longer prominently discloses what additional percentage of employee pay that each of its state, school and local clients pay each month for employee pensions.

The latest report from Stanford University’s “U.S. Pension Tracker” reveals that the 2016 California Public Employee Pension Plan liability is up 19.4 percent to $964.4 billion.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence met with former Secretary of State Condoleezza “Condi” Rice in the Washington, D.C., transition office on Wednesday to discuss bringing her on board the new administration.

A study by Stanford University claims that most students can’t tell the difference between real news articles and sponsored content.

The latest report from Stanford University’s “U.S. Pension Tracker” reveals that the market basis total U.S. state and local public employee pension debt is now $5.599 trillion, or $47,388 per household.

Week eight witnessed a major upset engineered by Penn State, a shockingly dominant performance by Auburn, and Alabama pull away from a top-ten team to show why they remain number one for the foreseeable future.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced this week that their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will fund a $3 billion effort to cure all diseases.

Often referred to as America’s Most Corrupt County, Cook County, Illinois — which includes Chicago — was just forced by its actuaries to restate its unfunded pension liability from $6 billion to $15.3 billion.

Two Democratic lawmakers from San Diego want to make a letter written by a victim of rape at Stanford University required reading as part of California public universities’ assault prevention and consent training programs for incoming students.

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns lit into Donald Trump while delivering a commencement address at Stanford University on Sunday, calling the presumptive Republican presidential nominee an “infantile, bullying” “charlatan” and an “insult to our history.”

Although the Palantir “unicorn” is valued at $20 billion and has taken over a huge swath of Palo Alto near Stanford University, the company is hemorrhaging top-name clients, bleeding key staff and becoming increasingly unprofitable.

Former Speaker John Boehner does not hold back when asked for his opinion of Sen. Ted Cruz.

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton presented a speech on counterterrorism at Stanford University on Wednesday in response to the devastating attacks in Brussels, Belgium the day before.

Students at Stanford University, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, are attempting to scrub names and symbols that honor people who are historically connected to slavery and colonialism from the college campus. The move echoes a series of colleges across the nation whose students have attempted to do the same.

Arutz Sheva reports: Acclaimed actor Michael Douglas and Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky will appear on three college campuses in the U.S. to speak to students about Israel and anti-Semitism, the Genesis Prize Foundation announced Wednesday.  The program, called “Jewish