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Stanford University is facing backlash after one of its offices used artificial intelligence to replace a Latino student with a Black woman in a campus dining ad photograph, CNN reported Friday.

The original 2024 photo showed biology major Billy Ramirez eating with two other students. But an altered version that appeared on a Stanford banner last week replaced Ramirez and also changed the other students’ features.

“I did feel pretty upset with the actions of the university,” Ramirez told CNN. “It’s more about my Latino identity kind of being erased, and I pride myself in being Mexican.”...

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media. The latest jarring example reveals that while most students are either drowning in student loan debt or reconsidering going to college all together due to high costs, wealthy kids are boarding jets just to tour the country's top rated schools.

More than two-thirds of Americans cannot identify Sikhs by their turbans, a survey said Monday amid a wave of violence against members of the faith.

WASHINGTON — Binge-drinking can have a long-lasting negative effect on the brains of teenaged girls, hitting them harder than it does young boys, a study released Friday shows.

By Julie Steenhuysen

Poll: Big majorities want easier way to fire bad teachers, but most also call them underpaid