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NCAA appeals court ruling overturning Texas Tech QB’s gambling ban

9 June 2026 at 14:32
The NCAA is filing an appeal to challenge a Monday ruling that granted Texas Tech University quarterback Brendan Sorsby a temporary injunction against the association after it banned him for violating its gambling policy for student athletes. The appeal, filed late Monday, is “accelerated,” meaning the NCAA is hoping to get a ruling from a…

NCAA appeals court ruling overturning Texas Tech QB’s gambling ban

9 June 2026 at 14:32
The NCAA is filing an appeal to challenge a Monday ruling that granted Texas Tech University quarterback Brendan Sorsby a temporary injunction against the association after it banned him for violating its gambling policy for student athletes. The appeal, filed late Monday, is “accelerated,” meaning the NCAA is hoping to get a ruling from a…

Want an A.I. Degree? Here’s What You Should Think About.

8 June 2026 at 10:00
The programs are popping up on campuses across America. What they teach varies.

© Philip Cheung for The New York Times

More universities are offering A.I. degrees, hoping they’ll attract students and make their graduates more marketable.

A.I. Degree Programs Surge as Colleges Seek Students and Relevance

8 June 2026 at 10:00
Colleges from North Dakota to New Jersey are trying to get students to sign up for A.I. degrees. What they teach varies widely.

© Tim Gruber for The New York Times

University of North Dakota is the flagship school in a state that will soon have two universities offering undergraduate or graduate degrees in A.I.

Bruce Springsteen Talks About His Place in American Music

7 June 2026 at 19:21
As he opens an expansive cultural center not far from the Jersey Shore boardwalk, the singer describes himself as “a small link in a big chain.”

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Bruce Springsteen outside the new Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music.

Bruce Springsteen Opens His Music Center

7 June 2026 at 17:02
Jon Bon Jovi, Public Enemy and others joined him to ring in the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, a $50 million archive and cultural hub.

© Hannah Beier for The New York Times

Bruce Springsteen greets Jon Bon Jovi at a ceremony for the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music in Long Branch, N.J., on Saturday.

Robert Coles, Pulitzer-Winning Child Psychiatrist, Is Dead at 97

7 June 2026 at 23:14
His five-volume “Children of Crisis” series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on his conversations with American children whose voices were not often heard.

© Jodi Hilton for The New York Times

Robert Coles eschewed ideologies and psychiatric orthodoxies to visit the homes of children — first in the American South and then around the world — to listen intently to what they had to say.

In a First, Scientists Precisely Edit Human Embryo Genes

5 June 2026 at 14:43
Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long alarmed bioethicists.

© Claude Cortier/Science Source

Researchers altered genes that influence levels of LDL cholesterol and hemoglobin in the blood.
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