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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Few college-bound kids lose their shot, and their slot, at their dream school once they get in, but it happened at one of the world’s most elite institutions and for a reason that has, until recently, hardly registered in the university admissions process: social media. Harvard University’s decision to rescind admission offers to 10 incoming freshmen because of offensive Facebook posts comes at a time of heightened attention to free speech and student conduct on U.S. college campuses, and has stirred debate far beyond the halls of the Ivy League school. Other schools say it’s an eye-opener for those involved in the admissions process. “We’re going to continue to watch how this unfolds and, with other higher ed institutions, learn from it,” said Janet Bonkowski, spokeswoman for the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay. Harvard rescinded the admission offers after discovering the students had traded offensive images and messages on a private Facebook group, ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — After firing missiles targeting the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on Monday issued a stark warning to IS militants, saying that any future attack against Iran will result in more powerful launches. The Guard said it launched the strikes on Sunday in retaliation for attacks in Tehran earlier this month that were claimed by the Islamic State group. Iran has been involved in Syria’s long-running civil war, in which it has backed embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad.  Iranian state television quoted Gen. Ramazan Sharif on Monday as saying that “if they (IS) carry out a specific action to violate our security, definitely there will be more launches, with intensified strength.” He spoke as part of a TV package about the missile launches, showing them shoot off into the night from the western province of Kermanshah. The Guard said it fired six missiles in total from Kermanshah and also from Iran’s Kurdistan province into...

YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) — The mother of a U.S. Navy sailor said her son kept diving to try to save his shipmates after a collision at sea until their flooded sleeping berth began running out of air pockets, while other survivors — believing their ship was under attack — hurried to man the guns. Mia Sykes of Raleigh, North Carolina, told The Associated Press on Sunday that her 19-year-old son, Brayden Harden, was knocked out of his bunk by the impact, and water immediately began filling the berth, after their destroyer, the USS Fitzgerald, collided with a Philippine-flagged container ship four times its size off the Japanese coast. The search for the U.S. Navy sailors who went missing after the USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship off the Japanese coast was called off after several bodies were found Sunday in the ship’s flooded compartments. (June 18) The ships collided about 2:20 a.m. Saturday, when the Navy said most of the 300 sailors on board would have been s...

LONDON (AP) — The Latest on a London crash in which a vehicle struck pedestrians (all times local): 8:30 a.m. London police say one suspect has been detained in an apparent early-morning attack on worshippers standing outside a mosque. Police say incident has all the “hallmarks” of a terrorist” incident. Police said a suspect was quickly and calmly turned over to the police, and that no one else was found in the van. One man was killed and eight people were seriously injured. A vehicle struck pedestrians on a north London road early Monday morning, causing several casualties, police said. One person has been arrested. (June 18) 8:00 a.m. The leader Britain’s opposition Labour Party says he was “totally shocked” by an apparent attack by a van driver which killed one man and eight people were seriously injured outside a mosque. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says in a tweet that he has been in touch with mosques, the police, and the local council regarding the in...