The creative writing program at the University of Montana is on the ropes. Last week, students talked through nonfiction work in the Hugo Room with a portrait of poet Richard Hugo in the background.

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Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Harris started looking for his first real job months before his graduation from UC Davis this spring. He had a solid résumé, he thought: a paid internship at a ...

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More than a dozen House Democrats pressed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz in a letter last week over CMS's announced plans to expand prior authorization ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A lawyer representing an alleged drug “kingpin” stood before a federal judge Wednesday and offered a mea culpa for the digital age: He submitted phony case citations generated by ...

Revolutionary program allows innovators to overcome traditional barriers and introduce disruptive affordable housing solutions in real-world developments in Utah Ivory Innovations is both an academic ...

The Texas State Legislature has appointed award-winning poet and University of Houston English professor Kevin Prufer as the Texas State Poet Laureate for 2026, one of the state’s highest honors for ...

The administration had asked the court to allow it to end deportation protections for more than 500,000 people facing dire humanitarian crises in their home countries. By Abbie VanSickle and Adam ...

Alarm bells rang for the special master in the case, he said, when he used Westlaw to verify details in the briefing—only to discover, he said, that some of the quotations and court decisions cited by ...

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