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Harvard, the world’s richest school, emerged as an unlikely folk hero after it rebuffed the administration’s demands for extensive control of the school.

She said managers rebuffed her concerns, became hostile, and she lost her job.

Van Hollen's rebuff came a day after another US member of Congress, West Virginia Republican Riley Moore, was allowed by Salvadoran authorities to enter the prison.

A Houston-based oil company has rebuffed the authority of the California Coastal Commission in a bid to revive drilling off the coast of Santa Barbara.

Russia's military had last month reported Ukrainian attempts to cross over into the Belgorod region - but said such attacks had been rebuffed.