Shrey Parikh wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee, beating Ishaan Gupta in a lightning-round tiebreaker

By The Associated Press
May 28, 2026 | 10:15 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shrey Parikh wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee, beating Ishaan Gupta in a lightning-round tiebreaker.

Jason Arday’s death sparks UK debate over academic rigor, racism after media ‘frenzy’

By The Associated Press
August 19, 2026 | 1:57 AM

LONDON (AP) — In 2012, a smiling Jason Arday was photographed by the British press carrying the Olympic flame in the torch relay that preceded the London Games. He was back in the news in 2023 when Cambridge University hailed him as the youngest Black professor in the institution’s history. Three years later, after weeks of news stories presenting evidence that he was a plagiarist and fabulist, Arday, 41, was found dead on Friday at his apartment in south London. His death quickly led to a blame game. Cambridge has been criticized for elevating Arday in a rush to promote diversity — despite red flags about his qualifications — and the news media has been targeted for driving him to despair when his credentials and life story began to unravel under intense scrutiny. Universities' ‘due diligence’ criticized

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