Senator Gary Peters, who has been vocal about combating Islamophobia, declines to put name on statement condemning attack Pro-Palestinian protest during University of Michigan’s 2024 commencement ceremony (Nic Antaya/Getty Images) Days after a group of young men attacked a University of Michigan student after overhearing him say he was Jewish, most of the state’s top
Group behind affirmative action ban says decline in Asian students is evidence of discrimination The view across Hewitt Quadrangle of Commons, Yale University / Facebook The group behind the lawsuit that brought down affirmative action in college admissions is demanding answers from universities that saw almost no change in the racial breakdown of their classes
A United Nations official who blamed Israel for Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack called the Jewish state a genocidal “military dictatorship” during a Brown University panel on Monday evening. At the event—”Anatomy of a Genocide: A Failure of the International System?”—hosted by Brown’s Center for Middle East Studies, the U.N.’s special rapporteur for the West
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris sat down with the National Association of Black Journalists for a Tuesday panel discussion, during which she struggled to convey her position on the Israel-Hamas war and repeatedly sparred with the friendly moderators. During one exchange, moderator Tanya Mosley of Philadelphia radio station WHYY asked Harris where she draws “the
The Senate on Sept. 17 failed to advance for the second time a bill that would create the federal right to access in-vitro fertilization (IVF). The Senate on Sept. 17 failed to advance for the second time a bill that would create the federal right to access in-vitro fertilization (IVF). The upper congressional chamber failed
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) on Tuesday slammed the Biden-Harris administration for effectively “stonewalling” congressional efforts to investigate the assassination attempts on Republican nominee Donald Trump. “I’m reaching the point of total outrage, because the response from the Department of Homeland Security has been totally lacking. In fact, I think it’s tantamount to stonewalling in
Public disclosure of exactly how Pennsylvania finds and removes noncitizens from the voter roll is at issue before the federal Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia will soon determine how much the public is entitled to know about noncitizens voting in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.