The announcement came as more than 100 presidents of U.S. universities and colleges signed a letter denouncing ‘unprecedented government overreach.’ President Donald Trump said on Monday he will deliver commencement speeches at two colleges, amid the federal government’s ongoing crackdown on anti-Semitism at universities across the United States. “I have agreed to do the Commencement
The announcement came as more than 100 presidents of U.S. universities and colleges signed a letter denouncing ‘unprecedented government overreach.’ President Donald Trump said on Monday that he will deliver commencement speeches at two colleges. “I have agreed to do the Commencement Address at two really GREAT places, the University of Alabama and, WEST POINT,”
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to consider Maryland parents’ challenge to their local school board’s policy that denies them the ability to opt their elementary school-age children out of instruction featuring storybooks that address gender identity and sexual orientation. At issue in the court fight between a group of families and
The National Institutes of Health is amassing private medical records from a number of federal and commercial databases to give to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new effort to study autism, the NIH’s top official said Monday. The new data will allow external researchers picked for Kennedy’s autism studies to study
‘What other contributions is she hiding?’ watchdog asks First daughter Ashley Biden speaks onstage during the DNC (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Ashley Biden’s charity has a $500,000 discrepancy in its books, a watchdog alleged in a complaint filed with the IRS on Monday. During the height of her father’s presidency in 2023, Ashley Biden launched a
A federal jury found Nadine Menendez guilty in a high-stakes corruption case tied to her husband and former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez. Nadine Menendez, the wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), was convicted on April 21 on multiple federal corruption charges for her role in what prosecutors called a years-long bribery and foreign influence
This comes after Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) made the trip last week. Four more Democratic lawmakers have traveled to El Salvador to push for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of a high-profile deportation by the Trump administration. U.S. Reps. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.), Robert Garcia (D-Calif.),