How the rise in violent crime is affecting college campuses
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As violent crime surges in cities big and small across the country, it is encroaching on what many have considered safe havens — college campuses, which are having to step up safety protocols in response.
The Chicago area has seen more than 1,000 homicides this year, according to Cook County Government. Three victims were University of Chicago students or recent graduates who were gunned down near the school this year.
Philadelphia broke its previous homicide record that was set in 1990, with 524 this year, according to the city's police department. Several of the murders occurred near Temple University, including that of student Sam Collington who was recently killed by an alleged carjacker.
Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, agreeing to review a lower court decision that upended the mechanism for funding programs that provide communications services to rural areas, low-income communities and schools, libraries and hospitals.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched six space tourists on a high-speed dash to the edge of space and back Friday, giving the passengers — including a husband and wife making their second flight — about three minutes of weightlessness and an out-of-this world view before the capsule made a parachute descent to touchdown at the company's west Texas flight facility.