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After 10 months of negotiations, a judge has given preliminary approval of a $1.25 million settlement for former students at Mills College, which merged with Boston’s Northeastern University last year. The merger ended the storied Oakland…
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A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. This time last year, John Carlo Chan was teaching students half a world away. He’d been educating 30 kids on the autism spectrum in his native…
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday shut down problem-plagued Cruise autonomous taxis in San Francisco, saying the vehicles, involved in several troubling incidents, presented an “unreasonable risk to the public.” “This…
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