Northeastern ousts 11 students for violating safety protocols, and keeps their $36,500 tuition. In one of the harshest punishments imposed to date against students for violations of coronavirus safety protocols, Northeastern University dismissed 11 first-year students this week and declined to refund their $36,500 tuition after they were discovered crowded […]

College students are used to seeing fees on their semester bills: activity fees, lab fees, athletic fees, technology fees, orientation fees and so on. This year, some students are noticing a new item: coronavirus fees. Faced with extra expenses for screening and testing students for the virus and for reconfiguring […]

Photo credit: Photo by Bre’Ann White, courtesy Carrie Mae Weems and Library Street Collective From Harper’s BAZAAR Referring to the recommended six feet of separation required for proper social distancing, artist Carrie Mae Weems’s Resist COVID Take Six! public awareness campaign aims to get information and resources to combat the […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — When Floridians overwhelmingly approved a measure allowing most felons to vote after completing their sentences, many expected Democrats to benefit most from the participation of up to 1.4 million newly eligible voters in this year’s election. But the coronavirus pandemic, which has hampered registration drives, […]

The quick answer is a lot, but only one strain is concerning doctors right now: The science world has been buzzing with troubling news that the virus that causes COVID-19 may have mutated in such a way to make it more transmissible. A preliminary study from April 30 and another […]

Getty Images Following his admittance to intensive care with coronavirus in April, prime minister Boris Johnson is reportedly preparing a more “interventionist” drive to tackle UK obesity in the ongoing and long-term fight against Covid-19. On 24 July, it was reported that the prime minister will set out new measures […]