Noose found at Johns Hopkins University construction site

BALTIMORE (AP) — Johns Hopkins University is investigating the discovery of a rope tied into a noose at a construction site in a building it owns off its Baltimore campus. The Baltimore Sun reports that Johns Hopkins officials also notified federal authorities about what the university calls a potential hate crime. The university’s president, Ronald J. Daniels, said in an email Friday that John Hopkins condemns “this act of hate” and views the noose as a “direct thr