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Arneetrice Lane was determined to finish college this time.She’d previously taken classes at Indiana Wesleyan University and Ivy Tech Community College, but didn’t graduate from either. Neither school felt right for her. But when she enrolled at Martin University, she felt right at home.“You can express yourself without being judged or without feeling shunned for your opinion,” Lane, who is 34, said. “You can agree to disagree and still maintain positive relationships.”This week, though, Lane’s plans were thrown into jeopardy when Martin University announced it would close at the end of the semester with no reopening date. The news came…

A home is shown for sale in The Heights in Houston, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025.Kirk Sides | Houston Chronicle | Getty ImagesHome prices have finally come down compared with last year, though just fractionally, according to daily reads from Parcl Labs, which looks at high-frequency listing data on single-family homes, condos and townhomes, both new and existing. They may stay softer, though, as home prices are down 1.4% in just the last three months.On a national level, home prices have not gone negative since mid-2023, a year after the Federal Reserve first brought rates up from zero, and mortgage rates…

In the next few decades, the standard passenger aircraft will look radically different, according to the head of one of the world’s largest plane manufacturers.Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said in a recent interview that in the next 30 to 40 years, passenger planes will favor a thicker, triangle-like shape with a flat tail called a blended wing body design. Faury discussed the futuristic designs in early December with German newspaper Bild. The design concept has never before been used for a passenger aircraft, however military planes, like the B2 Spirit stealth bomber designed by Northrop, have utilized different versions of…

Messaging app Freedom Chat has fixed a pair of security flaws: one that allowed a security researcher to guess registered users’ phone numbers, and another that exposed user-set PINs to others on the app. Freedom Chat, released in June, bills itself as a secure messaging app, and claims on its website that users’ phone numbers stay private. But security researcher Eric Daigle told TechCrunch that users’ phone numbers and PIN codes, used for locking the app, could be easily obtained by exploiting vulnerabilities. Daigle found the vulnerabilities last week and shared their details with TechCrunch, as Freedom Chat does not…

The Eli Lilly logo appears on the company’s office in San Diego, California, U.S., Nov. 21, 2025.Mike Blake | ReutersEli Lilly on Thursday said its next-generation obesity drug delivered what appears to be the highest weight loss yet in a late-stage trial while reducing knee arthritis pain, clearing the first of several upcoming studies on the weekly injection. The highest dose of the drug helped patients with obesity and a type of knee arthritis lose an average of 23.7% of their body weight at 68 weeks, when analyzing all participants, including those who discontinued treatment. When evaluating only patients who stayed on…

by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 2:00 PM ET, Wed December 10, 2025 Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings is teaming up with the Alaska Department of Fish & Game to offer a new public art contest.Called “Keep Bears Wild: Juneau Call for Artists,” the program is meant to celebrate Southeast Alaska’s wildlife while promoting community stewardship. The winning design will be wrapped around a large, newly constructed, bear-resistant garbage enclosure in the Warners Wharf area of downtown Juneau. Additional artwork will be transformed into mini-murals displayed on newly installed bear-resistant trash cans throughout the downtown corridor. The goal is to draw attention to…

Each December, TIME Magazine names a person of the year — someone who has most influenced the news and world, for good or ill. Last year, TIME chose President Donald Trump for the second time. The year before that, it was Taylor Swift, who many claimed saved the economy from a recession with her Eras Tour. In 1938, the magazine chose Adolf Hitler.  This year, TIME has chosen to bestow its award on not just one person, but a group of people: the so-called “Architects of AI,” comprising the CEOs shaping the global AI race from the U.S. With AI on…

Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine.Between Friday and Tuesday, South Carolina health officials confirmed 27 new measles cases in an outbreak in and around northwestern Spartanburg County. In two months, 111 people have been sickened by the vaccine-preventable virus. More than 250 people, including students from nine area elementary, middle and high schools, are in quarantine — some for the second time since the outbreak began in October. Most of the state’s new cases stemmed from exposures at Way of Truth Church in Inman. Church leaders have been “very…

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s long-celebrated yodeling has received a response from the U.N. cultural agency: The Alpine tradition of chant and song is indeed worthy of classification in a list of the world’s cultural heritage. A committee of Paris-based UNESCO, meeting in New Delhi, on Thursday listed yodeling in its list of intangible cultural heritage.Yodeling was selected among 67 traditions honored by UNESCO in the Indian capital, including Italian cooking, Ghanaian highlife music, the fermented Kyrgyz beverage Maksym and the El Joropo music and dance tradition in Venezuela.The list is different from the UNESCO World Heritage List, which enshrines protections…

Rivian debuted new tech at its first “Autonomy and AI Day” on Thursday in Palo Alto, California.Credit: RivianPALO ALTO, Calif. – Electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive has developed a custom chip, car computer and new artificial intelligence models that will enable it to bring self-driving features to its forthcoming vehicles, the company revealed at its first “Autonomy and AI Day” on Thursday in Palo Alto, California.Shares of Rivian were off roughly 3% during the hourlong event, and fell further as OpenAI made its own AI announcement Thursday, revealing its most advanced model yet.Rivian also said it plans to roll out an Autonomy+…