Families of Hollywood stars, financiers, businessmen and other wealthy Americans paid millions of dollars to ensure their children enroll in elite US universities, including the best ones - Yale, Stanford and Georgetown universities. Details of the loudest scandal in the American higher education system ...
Two Stanford University students have filed a lawsuit against the University of Southern California, Yale University and several other elite US colleges. Plaintiffs allege that they were denied a fair opportunity to enroll in educational institutions and that their degrees were devalued due to a fraudulent scheme ...
On February 12, the editor-in-chief of the television program “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” Ilya Ber accused the famous participant in the “What? Where? When” Alexandra Druz in an attempt to bribe, writes BBC. In his blog on LiveJournal, he told the following story: in November 2018, a few…
The Pentagon's top spokesman, Dana White, is stepping down amid an investigation into her conduct. “I greatly appreciate the opportunity this Administration has given me to serve alongside Secretary Mattis, our employees and all the civilians who support them,” White wrote...
The Dutch Ministry of Defense announced the prevention of a cyber attack by Russia on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). On April 13, the Netherlands' Military Intelligence and Security Service thwarted a GRU cyberattack targeting the OPCW in The Hague, Defense Minister Ankh Beileveld said at a press conference. IN…
On September 8, 20-year-old Naomi Osaka defeated the 36-year-old famous American tennis player Serena Williams to become the first Japanese woman to win the US Open tennis tournament in New York. Williams disagreed with the judge's decision and made a scandal, writes TJournal. The final of the match ...
Former partner of Paul Manafort Rick Gates said that Manafort helped Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during the 2014 presidential campaign. This was reported by the NBC TV channel, whose correspondent is at the hearing in the Manafort case. According to him, the last time they ...
Another failure of the social network amid scandals with Cambridge Analytica and smartphone manufacturers. Facebook admitted that due to a technical error in the settings, the private records of 14 million users were open to everyone. The company assured that the problems had already been fixed and apologized. ...
Popular chain of coffee shops Starbucks faced accusations of racism, an indirect reason for the incident was the chain's rule that only customers can use the toilet in the institution. The story began when two men entered a Starbucks cafe in Philadelphia (PA) and ...
A “representative of culture” who had connections with the Nobel Prize-awarding academy in Sweden, in different years, prematurely revealed the names of 7 Nobel Prize-winning writers, which violates the rules of the academy. This conclusion was reached by a lawyer’s investigation commissioned by the institution itself, writes TASS. Revealed...