Pentagon Will Cut Ties With Several Elite Universities, Hegseth Says

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Va., on Sept. 30, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced today that the Pentagon will discontinue academic programs with Princeton University, Yale, Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and many others ahead of the

US Designates Iran as State Sponsor of Wrongful Detention

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at the 62nd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 14, 2026. Alex Brandon/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Iran was designated as a state sponsor of wrongful detention on Feb. 27, according to a statement by the State Department. “For decades, Iran has continued to cruelly detain innocent

‘He Wants To Sweep This Under the Rug’: Public Housing Advocates Blast Mamdani for Excluding Them From ‘Rental Ripoff Hearing’

Mamdani campaigned on targeting ‘negligent’ landlords and seizing their property even as New York’s public housing remains famously decrepit Zohran Mamdani (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images), protest (Jon Levine) NEW YORK CITY—Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D.) highly touted “Rental Ripoff Hearing” went off the rails on Thursday as public housing advocates, who said City Hall was ignoring