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Billionaire Ronald Lauder threatens to pull funding if UPenn doesn't do more to fight antisemitism

Billionaire Ronald Lauder, a powerful financial backer of the University of Pennsylvania, is threatening to cut off donations if the school doesn’t do more to fight antisemitism, CNN has learned. ....

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Alabama public library system mistakenly flags children's book as "sexually explicit" because author's last name is Gay

An Alabama public library system says it mistakenly added a children’s picture book to a list of books containing explicit material because the author’s last name is Gay. ....

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Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Jon Fosse

The 2023 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Jon Fosse for “his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the Swedish Academy announced in Stockholm on Thursday. ....

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Book bans continue rising in the US with more targeting 'sexual' and 'inappropriate' content, free speech group says

Book bans in public schools rose by 33% in the last academic school year, with many efforts targeting titles perceived as “sexual” or “inappropriate,” a new report from the literary and free expression advocacy group PEN America shows. ....

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