The president of Barnard College at Columbia University lost a faculty-wide vote of no confidence on Tuesday, as criticism mounts over the school’s response to a pro-Palestine encampment that has sparked a national movement and garnered the political spotlight. About 77 percent
A group of six GOP state attorneys general sued the Biden administration over changes to Title IX on Tuesday, the fourth such suit over proposed revisions to the anti-discrimination protections in two days. Tuesday’s suit, led by Kentucky and Tennessee, claims that expansions
British singer FKA Twigs said during her Senate testimony pushing for artificial intelligence regulation that she has created her own deepfake version of herself. In a written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, twigs said she developed the
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Former President Trump’s campaign called the Commission on Presidential Debate's refusal to move up its debate schedule “unacceptable” Tuesday and suggested the 45th president could go around the body that’s sponsored all general election presidential debates for decades. “The
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Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) unveiled a $786,000 TV buy, with the first ad focused on veterans, as conservatives to his right line up behind his primary opponent, social media influencer Brandon Herrera. Gonzales, who has faced criticism from hard-right GOP members after
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The simmering debate over the fate of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) reached a rolling boil on Tuesday when top Democrats vowed to shield the embattled GOP leader from a conservative coup — and immediately prompted the coup’s ringleader to pledge a vote to boot him from power.
Biden 2024 campaign co-Chair Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) lambasted former President Trump over his immigration comments in a Time magazine interview published Tuesday, during which he vowed mass deportations if he comes back to power. In the interview, Trump repeated
The second week of testimony in former President Trump’s New York trial got underway Tuesday — and it was more eventful than expected, encompassing everything from a gag order ruling to new details around Trump’s alleged affairs. The former president faces 34 felony counts of
The Biden administration will soon propose reclassifying marijuana from the most severe Schedule I to Schedule III. There are numerous steps left in the process to move from a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) proposal to final policy, but the move would represent a major
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In his interview with SiriusXM radio's Howard Stern, President Joe Biden revived a dubious anecdote about having been arrested as a teenager while standing in solidarity on the porch of a Black family amid a desegregation protest. The post Biden’s Dubious Civil Rights Arrest
The Georgia Republican now has to make a choice: Either don't call the ouster vote, or force one and watch it fail. Both options risk hurting her politically.
Protesters against the war in Gaza raised three Palestinian flags on the Harvard University campus on April 27. Social media posts misleadingly claimed the university "replaced the American flag with the Palestinian flag." The Palestinian flags were removed by Harvard staff
Peacemakers from all sides of this conflict can manifest a new vision of peaceful co-existence, where people can build trust, heal, repair and co-create a new reality.
Representative Elise Stefanik is mad at special counsel Jack Smith for doing his job and prosecuting Donald Trump. In an ironic move betraying a complete lack of self-recognition, Stefanik on Tuesday filed an ethics complaint against Smith for “ illegal election interference .”
The college protests across the nation saw a slew of headline-grabbing developments on Tuesday, including the takeover of a building at Columbia University, a new House-wide effort by Republicans to investigate antisemitism and a major victory for activists at Brown
Home prices in February increased by 6.4 percent year-over-year, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index, released Tuesday. In January, home prices jumped by 6 percent year over year, according to the index, the fastest annual growth since 2022.
A proposal from California's Catalina Island to shoot down invasive mule deer via helicopter has met with a scathing response from Los Angeles County leadership. The Catalina Island Conservancy, which manages 88 percent of the unincorporated territory's land, submitted a plan
Donald Trump’s alleged hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels to mute a crescendoing story about their 2008 affair may have begun with David Pecker’s American Media Inc., but it certainly didn’t end there. While on the stand Tuesday, Daniels’s former attorney Keith Davidson
Vaping by young people led to increased risk of lead and uranium exposure, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in the journal Tobacco Control, found that both people aged 13 to 17 who used e-cigarettes in timespans lasting six to 19 days and over 20 days in
Women should start regular mammography screenings at age 40 and continue every other year until age 74, an expert advisory panel said Tuesday. Citing the increase in breast cancer among younger women, the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force (USPSTF) changed their previous
A group of nations known as the G-7 say they’ll eliminate coal from their power sector — unless those coal plants capture their planet-warming emissions — by 2035. In a communique this week, the nations’ environment and climate leaders said they would phase out “unabated coal
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told lawmakers Wednesday that the department is looking into ways to expand on the limited direct file pilot program with possible extensions in functionality and applicable tax credits up for debate. The free program, which is like a scaled-down
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday denounced protesters at Columbia University who smashed windows and unfurled an intifada banner while seizing control of Hamilton Hall, delivering his strongest criticism to date of pro-Palestinian protesters in New York.
Brown University’s corporate board will vote on a proposal to divest from Israeli interests, the university announced Tuesday, a major victory for student protesters who have taken over dozens of college campuses nationwide. Protesters at Brown will tear town their encampment
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is urging President Biden to visit Columbia University and observe the pro-Palestine protests roiling its Manhattan campus after Johnson and a group of GOP lawmakers stopped by the university grounds and denounced the demonstrations. Asked during a
Ted Cruz and four of his fellow members of Congress want you to fly through hoops to get a refund from an airline. Last week, the Biden administration issued a new rule requiring automatic refunds from airlines if a flight is delayed or canceled. But then, Senators Ted Cruz and
Americans’ confidence in the economy has dropped nine points since last month, the first time it has slipped since the fall, a survey by Gallup found. The Gallup Economic Confidence Index, which summarizes the public’s view on the current economic conditions, is at -29 for
California's population is celebrating its first net increase since 2020 — with a net gain of 67,000 residents last year, state authorities announced on Tuesday. Officials attributed the rise — to 39,128,162 individuals as of Jan. 1 — to an improvement in legal foreign
Chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) on Tuesday called on the heads of Yale University, the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Michigan to testify before her panel in May as part of a new House-wide
The Supreme Court refused to block a Texas law that required pornographic websites to verify a user’s age. The high court denied Tuesday an emergency appeal filed by the Free Speech Coalition, which is a trade association for the adult entertainment industry. The association
Fox News has quietly pulled The Trial of Hunter Biden , a six-part “mock trial” of Hunter Biden , from its digital streaming service, signaling that the company is taking the “imminently” arriving lawsuit announced by the president’s son more seriously than it had initially let
