The presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Pennsylvania will be called to the mat Tuesday after weeks of backlash over their schools’ responses to surging antisemitism. “Over the past several weeks, we’ve seen countless examples of antisemitic demonstrators on college campuses,” House Education Committee Chair Virginia...
A coalition of Virginia lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to press pause on the relocation of the FBI headquarters to Maryland, citing a potential conflict of interest as the General Services Administration weighed the selection of a new site. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) agreed last month to ignite a review of...
Headlines blaring warnings about how a second Trump presidency could slip toward dictatorship on Monday prompted a stiff pushback from allies of the ex-president, who is topping GOP primary polls just weeks before the Iowa caucuses. The Washington Post, The Atlantic and The New York Times each published stories referencing a “Trump dictatorship” in recent...
Consumer spending in the U.S. reached a record high in October, according to a recent analysis of federal data by the personal finance site WalletHub. Americans spent $1.57 trillion in October, up $4.04 billion from the month before, WalletHub’s consumer spending report found. This represents the highest spending total for a single month since 2010,...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) suggested at a campaign stop Saturday that he would move part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Iowa if elected to the White House. The GOP presidential candidate said at a campaign stop in Newton, Iowa that under his administration, he would be “laser focused” on returning power...
A prominent disinformation researcher who worked at Harvard University alleged her project was thwarted and her position ended early after the university received a $500 million donation from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, according to a whistleblower disclosure released Monday. The researcher, Joan Donovan, alleged that Harvard blocked her and her...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday said President Biden finds the use of rape as a weapon of war "reprehensible," when she was asked about Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s (D-Wash.) recent comments on rapes being committed by Hamas fighters. CNN anchor Dana Bash on Sunday pressed Jayapal on the silence from some fellow progressive leaders on...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is heading to Mexico on Tuesday, with a double duty to strengthen cooperation against drug trafficking and to expand the bilateral trade relationship. Yellen is scheduled to meet with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and her counterpart, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit Rogelio Ramírez de la O, on Thursday, following meetings...
The House of Representatives coiuld have articles of impeachment against President Biden ready early next year, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan suggested.
A spending bill that includes funding for the temporary housing of migrants displaced by the Massachusetts shelter system's capacity limit cleared the state House on Monday.