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LSU Shreveport’s LaPREP – a rigorous summer academic program – came to an end yesterday as 49 middle school students walked across the stage at LSUS's...

She is to become the University of California's next president. Confirmation of a successor could take time. Speculation on a successor has already begun. Perhaps former Sen. Joe Lieberman?

Eight of the world's 10 worst airports were in China, according to a new report by FlightStats.

The actor stars in Aaron Sorkin's HBO drama The Newsroom, playing an anchorman inspired to give up fluff pieces and return to hard-hitting journalism. The series returns for a second season starting July 14.

Grown Ups 2, the latest from Hollywood's simmeringly hostile man-child, is a series of riffs, skits and sight gags without much — aside from a low-comedy fascination with excreta and flatulence — to string them together.

An icon of radio has passed on with the cancellation of Talk of the Nation. The decision was a management prerogative, but I join with the many hundreds of you who have written in mourning. Some of your letters may help the replacement, Here & Now. We are all listening.

Privacy? You don't have any. And Terms and Conditions May Applyargues that you pretty much agreed it should be that way. Cullen Hoback's documentary outlines how the rise of digital culture — and our cheerful participation in it — have spelled an end to the notion of "that's personal."

Also: The co-creator of Twister dies; the Pakistani girl shot by Taliban militants will speak at the U.N.; the Texas state senate is expected to pass new abortion restrictions; and former New York governor Eliot Spitzer is running for New York City comptroller.

The host of WNYC's Studio 360 is a prolific writer, reader and cultural critic. He joined Ask Me Another at Central Park's SummerStage to reveal the key to a successful celebrity interview, and to play a trivia round about famous literary couples against a worthy opponent: his wife.