Ramesh used to talk to his friends in Michigan a lot on the phone. Usually it was about applications to the University of Farmington, the school where they worked and where he recruited students to attend. But they would also talk about their lunches, cars and Ramesh’s unsuccessful job search. Farmington provided international students who had finished their studies at other schools with the documents needed to maintain their student visas,...

Mike Pence announced the death of Harrison Deal in a car crash during his speech in Savannah, calling the aide "a truly wonderful young man."

"As a voter in Georgia, I never felt more like my vote counted than this past election,” one college student said.

Almost 1,800 students at Columbia University in New York are threatening to withhold tuition fees next year, in the latest signal to US academia of widespread preparedness to act on demands to reduce costs and address social justice issues relating to labor, investments and surrounding communities. In a letter to trustees and administrators of Columbia, Barnard College and Teachers College, the students said: “The university is acutely failing...

France's former president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, credited with leading social and technological reform of the country and placing it at the heart of Europe, was laid to rest Saturday in a low-key funeral attended only by family and his close circle. It had been the wish of Giscard, who ruled France from 1974-1981 and died on Wednesday of Covid-19 aged 94, to have such a small-scale ceremony, which was attended by around 40 people. The...

Japan's Hayabusa2 mission, the first to collect samples from beneath the surface of an asteroid, is scheduled to land back on Earth early Sunday morning in Australia. The mission collected samples from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu in 2019.