Classes at the start-up engineering school won’t begin until 2002, but next fall Ige and 29 classmates will report to “campus” (70 vacant acres west of Boston in Needham, Mass.) to live amid the bulldozers and work with newly-hired faculty members to create the school’s curriculum. “It’s a chance for me to leave an indelible mark,” says Ige. It’s sounds like a gamble. In a nation obsessed with college rankings, why take a flier on an unknown, unproven school?...

President Joe Biden handily won Colorado over former President Donald Trump by a double-digit margin of more than 13 points. But Trump supporters in the western state appear to have been misled by the former president’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was “rigged” or “stolen” by Democrats—leading some to demand audits and recounts. “Some clerks are getting death threats,” Colorado’s Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, told The Colorado Sun newspaper for an article published Friday....

According to a press release from the Erie County District Attorney’s Office, the incident occurred on January 15, when the couple attempted to enter a game at New York’s Highmark Stadium, home of the Buffalo Bills. “Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 34-year-old Michael Naab and 37-year-old Amber Naab of West Seneca were arraigned yesterday evening before Orchard Park Town Justice Jorge S. DeRosas. Both defendants are charged with one count of Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the Second Degree,” the district attorney’s office said in the press release....

CTV News reported that an 18-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman, both Saskatoon residents, were apprehended by police on the 3500 block of Millar Avenue near the outskirts of the jail. They were in possession of seven grams of crystal meth, 28 grams of cannabis and a small amount of cannabis shatter, a hard, translucent substance made from the plant’s essential oil. When approached by police, the suspects jumped into a white Chevrolet van and fled the scene....

Last week, the 5th Circuit decided for the second time to block a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge blocking Texas officials from restricting abortion access. The decision, which was first made on March 31, caused panic across the state, with health practitioners and patients worried that women would be forced to travel out of state to access abortion care at a time when U.S. residents are being advised to stay home and practice social distancing....

Just imagine what the Soviets must have thought if they were watching the Clarence Thomas hearings on CNN last week. Behold! In the crucible of the Capitol, in the marbled splendor of the Senate Caucus Room, was the world’s oldest democracy in action, weighing who in the land should sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. Here is what a free people seemed to get for their faith in their government: an evasive, overcoached nominee; a cynical, manipulative White House; a windy collection of senators....

The fine form of Courtois at Stamford Bridge, after a similarly successful loan stay with Atletico Madrid came to an end in 2014, is reported to have won him admirers at the Santiago Bernabeu. But the prospect of his goalkeeper returning to the Spanish capital was not something Conte was willing to entertain as his Premier League-leading team prepare to host Stoke City on Saturday. “I think it is not important to clarify the situation,” Conte said....

The disposal technique was carried out on Saturday at a facility in Guangyuan in southwest China’s Sichuan province, according to state news outlet The Global Times which cited the country’s State Administration of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense. The newspaper added that the technique, performed in the country for the first time, marks a major step forward for China’s nuclear industry. Nuclear power is sometimes seen as a source of green energy due to nuclear power plants not producing greenhouse gasses....

In its year-end report analyzing Beijing’s political and military policies in 2020, the government-funded Institute for National Defense and Security Research said Chinese efforts to influence the Taiwanese public’s voting behavior has so far backfired, but it expected more of the same strategy this year. Released last week, INDSR’s 200-page report makes special mention of China’s online cognitive warfare—part of its larger “hybrid warfare”—which it conducts through Taiwan’s mainstream media platforms, including popular forums and ubiquitous mobile messaging application LINE....

The prediction by Capital Economics is at odds with a common view that China is set to surpass the U.S. as the world’s biggest economy and stay there. The London-based consultancy forecasts that China’s economic clout will not increase steadily relative to the U.S. through time, due in part to its workforce declining by more than 0.5 percent a year by 2030. Meanwhile, the U.S. workforce will expand over the next 30 years, supported by higher fertility than in China and immigration, it said....

The U.S. death toll tied to fentanyl in 2020 is estimated at a record 90,000. The problem may only be getting worse. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid developed decades ago as an extremely powerful pain reliever. It’s about 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin. It takes only about 2 milligrams of fentanyl to kill an average human being. Nonetheless, fentanyl is being used outside of the medical field to enhance the recreational high of other narcotics, painkillers and prescription drugs....

To the casual observer, Weibo is awash with pro-Russian and anti-Western sentiment from government officials, users and state-owned media outlets alike. It’s difficult not to see public opinion on the platform, which reported more than 570 million active monthly users last year, as monolithic, unless you know where to look. Not all are brave enough to speak out in the middle of such lopsided discourse on China’s main social media website, but a significant group has gathered under the Weibo account of the Ukrainian Embassy, a rare safe space where netizens express their support for Kyiv and their condemnation of Moscow, through quiet likes and comments....

Local media reports the group removed the livers and kidneys from 11 people at a hospital in Anhui province between 2017 and 2018. The trafficking ring deceived the families of the deceased into believing they had made official organ donations. The Intermediate People’s Court in the city of Bengpu found the gang guilty, sentencing them to between 10 and 28 months in July, according to the South China Morning Post....

After a decade in the NBA, Maxiell joined the Tianjin Gold Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association to extend his career. Maxiell (6-7, 260 pounds) took a hard hit to the head from Shandong center Wu Ke (6-10, 220) during Wednesday’s game. He did not like it — AT ALL. MORE: All-Star worthy players who won’t make it to Toronto Maxiell’s first punch nearly landed, and Wu Ke realized it was time to run....

Li, 39, and a 29-year-old sex worker have confessed to the illegal activity, the BBC quotes Beijing police as announcing. Li and the sex worker were apprehended after police received a tip-off from the public. The Times of London has reported that Li has been ordered to spend 10 to 15 days in administrative detention, a punishment that requires no court hearing. Following the arrest, Vice World News journalist Viola Zhou took to Twitter to share screenshots from an unnamed TV program, that showed the entire figure of one of the people onscreen blurred out....

The paper’s editorial began by describing how the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan caused the Taliban’s forces to quickly seize control in what it deemed “a heavy blow to the credibility and reliability of the U.S.” The Times then cited what it called similar situations, such as the fall of Saigon during the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 when the U.S. evacuated its citizens from the city. The tabloid also wrote of how the U....

The only thing that does is that it’s not Chip Kelly’s end game at quarterback. The third-year Eagles coach pulled off his second NFL blockbuster trade in a week Tuesday, acquiring Bradford from the Rams in exchange for Nick Foles — a rare quarterback-for-quarterback swap. It comes on the heels of Philly shipping off another Andy Reid holdover, running back LeSean McCoy, to Buffalo. It wasn’t hard to see the sense in moving McCoy and his hefty contract to create cap space and fill a roster need with inside linebacker Kiko Alonso....

Instead, the work the club’s directors did in the winter paid off. Ronaldo Cisneros, a 20-year-old signed from Santos Laguna in the offseason, cleaned up a goalmouth mess for his debut goal for the Rebano Sagrado. Rodolfo Cota, the goalkeeper who was set to leave the club and return to Pachuca but eventually was brought back to Guadalajara, made a critical save in the 74th minute to stop Carlos Gonzalez from doubling his total on the night....

Then, the Guadalajara side got a big boost from two players coming off injuries, with Angel Zaldivar’s shot deflecting and falling for Rodolfo Pizarro who opened the scoring. While coach Matias Almeyda will be frustrated with the fact that his team conceded minutes later to Fernando Uribe on a free kick, settling for a 1-1 draw, getting two of his attacking weapons back on the field and seeing them come together for an away goal will fills the Argentine with confidence his team can find another home victory and move into the final....

Christie joined ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday morning to discuss Trump’s interactions before his diagnosis and what precautions the Trump administration took to prevent the spread of the virus before the debate. He said that, although he was at the White House from Saturday until Tuesday afternoon, his last coronavirus test result—taken Tuesday morning—was negative. “No one was wearing a mask in the room when we were prepping the president during that period of time,” Christie told GMA....