Six USC student applicants linked to college bribery scheme denied acceptance
The news came days after federal prosecutors in Boston announced bombshell charges in a nationwide college admissions scandal.
The news came days after federal prosecutors in Boston announced bombshell charges in a nationwide college admissions scandal.
The company initially took a wait-and-see approach after a federal investigation of the scam involving more than 30 parents was revealed.
Officials in Boston got a tantalizing tip ? a Yale University women?s soccer coach had asked a financial executive for a bribe to help get his daughter admitted into the elite school.
The University of Southern California, Yale University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and other colleges were sued by two Stanford University students seeking class status.
YVONNE ABRAHAM
Will we finally fix the way we do college admissions in this country? Or will we still cling to the American fiction that every kid has an equal shot?
OPINION | MCGREGGOR CROWLEY
Every year, regardless of what a college or university says publicly, a number of children of wealthy donors and alumni get a nod while other applicants are rejected.
The receiver agreed to a four-year, $37.5 million deal with $23 million guaranteed.
Ellington had 31 catches in seven games last season split between the Detroit Lions and the Houston Texans.
Pollsters, talking heads, and potential voters are getting familiar with a widening field of candidates.
CHRISTOPHER MUTHER
Helpful hints on how to make everyone?s airport experience less stressful. These tips are common sense, but common sense seems to depart from airports more regularly than Delta shuttles to New York.
Opinion | Marietta Robinson
Our consumer protection agencies, including the FAA, have been compromised by the industries they are meant to regulate.
Opinion | Luke O?Neil
You can make a lot of money selling the most vile opinions imaginable in America.
Opinion | Ban Ki-moon and Patrick Verkooijen
Collaboration, planning, and forward-looking investments are making some communities more resilient to the impact of climate change.
A wet basement professional says there are three things in life you can count on: ?Death, taxes, and, if you have concrete, it?s going to crack.? Here?s how to tackle the problem.
The Massachusetts native reflects on the success of a show he never thought would get made.
This season of ?The Bachelor? may have begun with 30 women competing for Colton Underwood?s heart, but the season was turned upside down near its end.
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The Globe?s picks for the best ways to spend your weekend.
The Republican-run Senate firmly rejected President Trump?s declaration of a national emergency at the southwest border on Thursday, setting up a veto fight and dealing him a conspicuous rebuke.
NESTOR RAMOS
Thanks to an inexplicable loophole, voters overwhelmingly booted Mayor Jasiel Correia out of office ? and, on the same ballot, narrowly reelected him.
Victor Pena allegedly kidnapped the 23-year-old woman in January after she left a Boston bar and held her captive for three days.
Cox is a longtime confidant of chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. His departure comes months after he was promoted in a major reorganization.
The first Mass at the renovated space is scheduled for Palm Sunday on April 14.
Both sides of Route 2 were shut down while the mama bear was tranquilized and the family was removed from its den.
Governor Charlie Baker on Thursday urged lawmakers to pass his bill aimed at cracking down on stoned drivers as more recreational marijuana stores open around the state.
MIT researchers say they?ve been able to improve cognitive and memory impairments in mice that had conditions similar to those in people with Alzheimer?s.
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Timothy Sloan?s new compensation: $18.4 million. It includes a $2 million ?annual incentive award? ? a bonus.
Opinion columnist Michael Cohen takes a candid and no-holds-barred look at the current political moment. Sign up now.
If it?s March, it must be time for the tournament everyone awaits all year: Munch Madness.
Dating in 2019 is?complicated. Frustrating. Sometimes completely exhilarating. In Season 2 of the podcast, Meredith Goldstein goes deep on one of her most-asked questions.
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Read a multi-part investigation into how and why the lives of promising Boston valedictorians didn?t quite turn out the way they expected.
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Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: winter weather, presidential candidates on the campaign trail, a Chinese New Year celebration.
?But now that I?m here, I love it,? said Bennett, whose trade to New England became official Thursday.
Remington can be sued over how it marketed the rifle used to kill 26 people at Sandy Hook in 2012, a divided Connecticut Supreme Court ruled.
The 1,901-square-foot home has two bedrooms, a full bath, and three half baths. The cabana looks like a chapel.
State Representative Paul McMurtry faced allegations he grabbed the backside of an incoming legislator during a Dec. 13 cocktail hour.
Officials have been developing schemes to fortify New York City?s waterfront ever since Superstorm Sandy destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in 2012.
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The recall covers certain Honda and Acura models largely in the U.S. and Canada.
The probe is intensifying scrutiny of the social media giant?s business practices as it seeks to rebound from a year of scandal and setbacks.
As a writer named Annie, she is happy with her body and begins to realize it?s not her problem if others are not.
Mobile homes may be the least expensive and most effective means of addressing the region?s housing shortage.
The case of Peter Zhu, a cadet at West Point Military Academy who died last month, has reignited a debate around ?postmortem sperm retrieval.?