Reports reveal this week that college students across the United States, including up to 40% of students at Stanford University, are claiming to have a disability in order for special accommodations like more time on tests is prompting pushback from education experts.

Recent data reveals, according to The Atlantic, that at schools like Brown and Harvard, more than 20 percent of undergraduates are now registered as disabled. At Amherst, that number hits 34 percent. But professors warn that this isn’t a surge in physical impairments. Instead, it’s a wave of students acquiring “dubious” diagnoses for disabilities like ADHD, anxiety, and dyslexia that come with coveted perks: extra time on exams and better campus housing.

“She, of course, didn’t have a disability,” a Stanford University student wrote in The Sunday Times in an article suggesting that 40% of Stanford students claim to be “disabled.” 

“She knew it. I knew it. But she had figured out early what most Stanford students eventually learn: the Office of Accessible Education will give students a single room, extra time on tests and even exemptions from academic requirements if they qualify as ‘disabled’”.

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Fox News Digital spoke to several education experts who said that the systems in place at American colleges are being abused and students with real disabilities will be hurt the most. 

“College Students with real disabilities—like mine— are being passed over for those who, as a result of insufficient high school preparation or otherwise, have sought to make things as easy as possible for themselves in the ordinarily rigorous college environment,” Sarah Parshall Perry, Vice President and Legal Fellow at Defending Education, told Fox News Digital.

“The fact that we’re seeing a surge in students presenting with ‘disabilities’ is evidence that the youngest generation is ill prepared for life in the real world.”

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Erika Sanzi, Senior Director of Communications for Defending Education, told Fox News Digital that this story “reflects our perverse incentive structure that encourages students to claim identity labels that come with special accommodations, even when they don’t have an actual disability.”

The “gaming” of the system doesn’t stop at medical claims. Sunday Times also reported a trend of students claiming “religious dietary restrictions” to opt out of Stanford’s mandatory $7,944-a-year meal plan.

“Reasonable accommodations rightly exist to ensure equal opportunities for all students,” University of Kentucky Professor and Campus Reform editor-in-chief Zachary Marschall, PHD, told Fox News Digital.

“However, being uncomfortable is not a disability and it is unreasonable to scheme for a single dorm room or easier testing conditions. This trend is symptomatic of Gen Z’s toxic entitlement to feel comfortable, which higher education enables by accommodating students’ self-centered expectations.” 

Fox News Digital reached out to Brown and Harvard universities for comment.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Stanford University said that recent press inquiries have “prompted us to take a deeper look into our federal reporting practices.”

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“We have determined that our previous practice did not accurately reflect the number of students who are actually receiving accommodations, and we will correct this in future IPEDS reporting,” the statement said. “The previously reported numbers (38% for 2023) reflected students who simply registered with the Office of Accessible Education (OAE) during the course of a given year rather than students who received academic accommodations. The number of students who received academic accommodations is less than half of the reported number. For fall 2025, 12.5% of undergraduates received academic accommodations.”

                
                                                         
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वही कमनीय, कलामय हाथ
                                                                 
                            

कि जिसने रुचिर तुम्हारा देश
                                                                 
                            

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करों में लतरों का लचकाव,
                                                                 
                            

करतलों में फूलों का वास,
                                                                 
                            
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इधर उठता पूनो का चाँद,
                                                                 
                            

सरों, श्रॄंगों, झरनों पर फूट
                                                                 
                            

पड़ा है किरनों का उन्माद,
                                                                 
                            

तुम्हें अपनी बाहों में देख
                                                                 
                            

नहीं कर पाता मैं अनुमान,
                                                                 
                            
प्रकृति में तुम बिंबित चहुँ ओर
                                                                 
                            

कि तुममें बिंबित प्रकृति अशेष।
                                                                 
                            

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Home Alone actress Catherine O’Hara died of a pulmonary embolism, with cancer the underlying cause, according to a death certificate.

The Canadian-American star died at her home in Los Angeles last month, at the age of 71.

On Monday, the cause of her death was confirmed as a pulmonary embolism, which occurs when a blood clot blocks an artery in the lungs.

The Los Angeles County death certificate added that rectal cancer was the long-term cause.

The oncologist who signed off on the certificate said he had been treating O’Hara since March of last year, and last saw her on 27 January.

O’Hara won an Emmy award for lead actress for her role in comedy series Schitt’s Creek in 2020, where she played the eccentric Moira Rose.

She was also well known for playing Kevin’s mother, Kate McCallister, in the first two Home Alone films.

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O’Hara is survived by husband, Bo Welch, and sons Matthew and Luke. Her family will hold a private celebration of her life.

Macaulay Culkin, who played Kevin in Home Alone and its sequel alongside O’Hara, paid tribute to her on Instagram, describing her as “Mama”.

Meryl Streep, who co-starred with O’Hara in the 1986 comedy drama, Heartburn, said she “brought love and light to our world, though whipsmart compassion for the collection of eccentrics she portrayed”.

O’Hara died at a hospital in Santa Monica, California.

Bad Bunny could be heard speaking English briefly during his Super Bowl halftime show Sunday night, shouting, “God bless America.” But his usage of the term — heard for decades as the ultimate patriotic American phrase — stirred debate over its context.

The Grammy Award-winning artist, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, invoked the traditionally U.S.-centric phrase toward the end of his performance. 

He then named countries across North, Central and South America — including Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Mexico, as well as the United States and Canada — before ending the show by spiking a football that read, “Together, we are America.”

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The singer’s use of the phrase, “God Bless America,” and performance called on a larger definition of what “America” means and was widely interpreted as a reframe — drawing criticism and applause from media, politicians and others. The show also featured people waving the flags of various countries, including the U.S.

“And also, this is America. Not the United Nations. If you legally immigrate here from another Nation, fine. You’re welcome here,” Texas State Rep. Jeff Leach wrote on X. “But when you become a citizen, you stop flying your native flag, and you fly the American flag. What in God’s name is the NFL thinking?!?!”

“One thing non-Hispanics may not fully grasp is that when Bad Bunny said ‘God bless America’ and listed dozens of countries, he was invoking a very old trope of the Latin American left, which insists Americans arrogantly claimed the name of two continents for ourselves,” one X user noted.

The progressive Headquarters X account, formerly home of the pro-Kamala Harris account KamalaHQ, praised the moment as sending a “message” of love.

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The usage of the phrase and his listing of countries from both continents also drew extensive media discussion and analysis.

“He then, however, referenced all the countries in the Americas, not just the United States. It was a pointed message of unity and togetherness,” Mashable wrote.

Forbes contributor Hannah Abraham said the song, “God Bless America,” was an American pastime for sporting events, but Bad Bunny’s interpretation “reimagined” America.

“There’s a long tradition of ‘God Bless America’ being performed at sporting events, particularly the Super Bowl. It’s typically sung in English by artists representing traditional American values and aesthetics,” Abraham wrote. “Bad Bunny’s version — a spoken phrase rather than the song fully sung, delivered in English after an hour of Spanish, followed immediately by a celebration of Latin nations before circling back to ‘USA’ — reimagined what blessing America can look like.”

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Bad Bunny’s use of the phrase followed months of debate surrounding his relationship with U.S. politics.

Only months before the Super Bowl, during a rendition of “God Bless America,” at a New York Yankees game, Bad Bunny ignited controversy for his refusal to stand. When accepting his 2026 Grammy, he opened by declaring, “Before I say thanks to God, I gotta say, ICE out. We’re not savages. We’re not animals. We’re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans… The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love.” The final phrase also appeared on the jumbotron during his halftime show.

Bad Bunny also declined to schedule U.S. tour dates for his 2025-26 concert run out of fear of ICE immigration raids at his shows.

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When written by Irving Berlin in 1918, the song was not necessarily intended to be a protest song or cultural moment, but to be something of a patriotic prayer to express gratitude and unity during trying times. 

In contrast, Media Research Center News analyst Jorge Bonilla wrote in a Fox News op-ed, “His shout of ‘God Bless America!’ really meant ‘América,’ as in the Americas, not the United States. A grand finale that was stilted, confusing, and subtly but passively-aggressively anti-American.”

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Fox News Digital has reached out to Bad Bunny’s representatives for comment. 

US TV host Savannah Guthrie has said her family is “at an hour of desperation” in the search for her missing 84-year-old mother – as the deadline on a ransom note draws nearer.

In a video posted on social media on Monday, Savannah Guthrie, co-anchor on NBC’s Today show, called the saga a “nightmare” and pleaded to anyone with information to come forward.

“We believe our mum is still out there,” she said.

“She was taken and we don’t know where. And we need your help…

“If you see anything, if you hear anything, if there is anything at all that seems strange to you, that you report to law enforcement.

“We are at an hour of desperation. We need your help.”

Her mother Nancy Guthrie was last seen at her own home near Tucson, Arizona, on the evening of 31 January, and was reported missing the next day after she did not turn up at church.

Law enforcement officials have concluded that the 84 year-old was kidnapped but no suspects have been identified, authorities have said.

A ransom note requesting the Guthrie family pay $6m (£4.4m) gave a deadline of Monday at 5pm MT (12am GMT) – a development that prompted Savannah Guthrie and her siblings to say over the weekend they would be willing to pay for their mother’s return.

But authorities have not yet confirmed the authenticity of the note.

The FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department are investigating the case, with the FBI offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information.

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Investigators said they were searching for a vehicle or vehicles that may be connected to her case.

Blood found on the front porch of Nancy Guthrie’s home was a match to her, while her doorbell camera was disconnected in the early hours of Sunday morning, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has said.

Authorities said they have growing concerns about Nancy Guthrie’s health because she requires daily medication.

She is believed to have a pacemaker and has experienced with high blood pressure and heart issues, according to sheriff’s dispatcher audio on broadcastify.com.

Lindsey Vonn’s dad said Monday he hopes the horrific crash that landed the Olympic legend in the hospital at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games will mark “the end of her career.”

Alan Kildow told The Associated Press he wasn’t sure whether he actually has any say in the matter. Vonn broke her leg during the final run of the alpine ski women’s downhill event. She crashed in the first sector and needed to be airlifted off the mountain.

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“She’s 41 years old and this is the end of her career,” he told The Associated Press. “There will be no more ski races for Lindsey Vonn, as long as I have anything to say about it.”

Kildow didn’t divulge any details about the injuries but mentioned her emotional state.

“She’s a very strong individual,” Kildow said. “She knows physical pain and she understands the circumstances that she finds herself in. And she’s able to handle it. Better than I expected. She’s a very, very strong person. And so I think she’s handling it real well.”

Vonn’s family was on hand to watch her try to pull off a miracle – win an Olympic medal in one of the fastest sports the Games has to offer all while dealing with a ruptured ACL.

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But the hopeful nature of the day quickly turned to somber feelings.

“First, the shock and the horror of the whole thing, seeing a crash like that,” Kildow said of what he felt watching the scene unfold. “It can be dramatic and traumatic. You’re just horrified at what those kinds of impacts have.

“You can go into a shock an emotional psychological shock,” he added. “Because it’s difficult to just accept what’s happened. But she’s well cared for. … And the USOC and the U.S. Ski team have a very, very top-notch doctor with her and she is being very well cared for here in Italy.”

Kildow put the cause of the crash more on Vonn trying to push herself to the edge than the ACL.

Vonn is recovering in a hospital in Treviso. She holds the record of 12 World Cup victories in Cortina, Italy, and didn’t seem like she missed a beat when she returned to the circuit last year following a six-year absence.

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The next stop for Vonn will be home, according to Kildow. She will not be back at any Olympic events to cheer on her teammates.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.