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Michigan professor placed on leave after racist remarks

| November 24, 2020 3:32 PM

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A science professor at a Michigan university has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated after denying the severity of the coronavirus and using racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs on Twitter.

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