Here is what we know about the man accused of killing a nursing student on UGA campus

A man has been arrested in connection to the death of a 22-year-old nursing student. The body of Laken Riley was found on University of Georgia’s Intramural Fields around noon Thursday. Officials said the body was found after one of her friends called 911 to report that she hadn’t come home from a jog. During … Read more

A nursing student found dead after jogging on the University of Georgia campus has been identified

The body of a woman found dead Thursday on the University of Georgia campus has been identified as 22-year-old Laken Hope Riley, the Athens-Clarke County coroner told CNN on Friday. Riley was an Augusta University College of Nursing student at its campus in Athens, the city that also is home to the University of Georgia, … Read more

Taekwondo instructor charged with murder in the deaths of a 7-year-old student and the boy’s parents

SYDNEY — A taekwondo instructor was charged from his hospital bed Thursday with three counts of murder for the deaths of a 7-year-old student and the boy’s parents in Sydney. Lawyers for Kwang Kyung Yoo, 49, appeared on his behalf in the Parramatta Local Court hearing, but did not apply for Yoo to be released … Read more

Italy to try Egyptian officials again for 2016 torture and death of Italian student Giulio Regeni

ROME — Four high-level Egyptian security officials are going on trial in a Rome court, accused in the 2016 abduction, torture and slaying of an Italian doctoral student in Cairo. Tuesday’s opening hearing marks the second time the four Egyptians went on trial in absentia: In 2021, a Rome judge halted the trial on the … Read more

University of Michigan Says It’s Not Selling Student Data to AI Companies

On Thursday morning, news broke that someone was going around selling student data from the University of Michigan to tech workers that build AI chatbot tech. An employee at Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research hub, said they’d gotten an offer for recordings of lectures, student discussions, and office hours, as well as essays written … Read more

Google’s use of student data could effectively ban Chromebooks from Denmark schools

Danish privacy regulator Datatilsysnet has ruled that cities in Denmark need considerably more assurances about privacy to use Google service that may expose children’s data, reports BleepingComputer. The agency found (translated) that Google uses student data from Chromebooks and Google Workplace for Education “for its own purposes,” which isn’t allowed under European privacy law. Municipalities … Read more

Taylor Swift Threatens Legal Action Against College Student Over Social Media Flight Tracking

Taylor Swift’s lawyers are threatening legal action against a college student who has spent years tracking her private plane and documenting the flights on the internet.  On Tuesday, ET learned that the singer-songwriter’s legal team is considering suing Jack Sweeney, a junior at the University of Central Florida, who has spent the last several years sharing … Read more

Student protests in Athens turn violent, disrupt exams as debate rages

ATHENS, Greece — Police and student protesters clashed in the center of the Greek capital on Thursday after a demonstration against government plans to allow private universities. Demonstrators in Athens attacked police cordons, set fire to trash dumpsters and threw stones at riot police near parliament and later during clashes along the capital’s narrow streets. … Read more

Storm Reid Back to USC After Emmy Win, ‘I’ll Always Be A Student’

Play video content TMZ.com Storm Reid’s at the top of her game in Hollywood — especially after winning an Emmy — but that doesn’t make her above anyone else on campus … yes, she’s still in school! We got the professional actress — who just took some hardware in recent weeks — at LAX Thursday … Read more

US Supreme Court sidesteps fight over transgender student bathroom access

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an Indiana public school district’s defense of a policy barring transgender students from using bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity, as the justices steered clear – at least for now – of a contentious issue in the nation’s culture wars. The … Read more