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A group of Republican lawmakers voted Wednesday to prohibit University of Wisconsin professors from working with a renowned nonprofit journalism center and to force the organization out of the two offices it occupies on the UW campus. According to Inside Higher Ed, Wisconsin's Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee voted 12-4 to introduce a motion to the state house evicting the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from its offices and barring it from working with UW staff.

(Reuters) - Researchers studying a potentially deadlier, airborne version of the bird flu virus have voluntarily suspended their studies for 60 days because of concerns it could be used as a devastating form of bioterrorism, according to a letter published in the journals Nature and Science on Friday.