Senate Finance Committee Advances Nomination of RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary

Kennedy, who has been criticized by Democrats and Republicans for his stance on vaccines and comments on abortion, needs a simple majority to gain confirmation. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took a step closer to becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on Feb. 4 when the Senate Finance Committee advanced his nomination

Watchdog Sues West Point for Withholding Records About Its False Claims Against Pete Hegseth

West Point falsely told ProPublica that Hegseth was never accepted into the academy Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to reporters (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) A watchdog group sued the United States Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday for allegedly withholding public records related to false claims the school made to the press regarding Defense

Dozens of Department of Education Workers Put on Leave Following Trump Order, Union Says

The head of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252 said at least 55 employees were impacted so far. U.S. Department of Education workers were put on leave in what appears to be a response to President Donald Trump’s order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal government, a labor union

Department of Education Investigating Anti-Semitism at 5 Colleges, Including Columbia

The Department of Education announced the investigations on Feb. 3. The U.S. Department of Education said in a Feb. 3 statement that it is investigating allegations of anti-Semitism at five colleges, including Columbia University and the University of California–Berkeley. The department’s Office for Civil Rights is launching the investigations in response to what it described

Brown Med Puts DEI Above Clinical Skills and USAID Shutdown Threatens Foreign Climate Activists

Brown University Medical School bills itself as a “national leader in medical education and biomedical research” that has attracted “first-class physicians and researchers.” What exactly does the school mean by “first class”? To earn a promotion, faculty in the Department of Medicine must demonstrate a “commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion,” the Free Beacon‘s Aaron

Brown Medical School Gives DEI More Weight Than ‘Clinical Skills’ in Promotion Criteria for Faculty

Brown University Medical School now gives “diversity, equity, and inclusion” more weight than “excellent clinical skills” in its promotion criteria for faculty, raising questions about the quality of teaching and patient care at the elite medical school and underscoring how deeply DEI has penetrated medical education. The criteria, which are posted on Brown’s website and have