Devos proposes changes to reporting sexual assault on campuses

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday proposed a major overhaul to the way colleges and universities handle sexual misconduct complaints, adding protections for students accused of assault and harassment and narrowing which cases schools would be required to investigate.

Acting Attorney General Whitaker says Mueller probe to proceed

WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has told Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in a meeting that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation will proceed, according to a person familiar with the meeting.

David Hockney painting fetches record $90M for living artist

A painting by the British artist David Hockney fetched $90.3 million at Christie’s on Thursday night, easily breaking the record for a work by a living artist sold at auction.

 
Gravity-defying hotel gives new meaning to sleeping with fishes

The 18-story Intercontinental Shanghai Wonderland Hotel has been built into the side of a huge hole in the ground left by a former pit mine. Sixteen of its floors are below ground level, looking out onto the rest of the former quarry. Two floors are underwater.

Iconic toy store, FAO Schwarz, making a comeback

Three years after it closed its beloved toy store on Fifth Avenue, FAO Schwarz is making a return to New York.

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