Columbia University acknowledged Wednesday that a student linked to Jeffrey Epstein was admitted to its dental school through what it described as an “irregular process” that happened concurrently with fundraising outreach to the disgraced financier, Bloomberg reports.[#item_full_content]

Massive 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits off Japanese coast, tsunami alert issued
A strong earthquake took place off the northern coast of Japan Monday afternoon, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to put out a tsunami alert in