The dean of Yale Law School, Heather Gerken, who has been battered by numerous free speech and anti-Semitism scandals since assuming the post in 2018, is under consideration to be the next president of Yale University, according to five people familiar with the matter. Gerken made headlines in 2021 when law school administrators threatened a
Secretary of State Antony Blinken sat for an interview with New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday. It was not reassuring. The exchange began with a discussion of the Middle East. The region has been aflame since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, murdering
Littlejohn weaponized his access to IRS database for personal and political agenda, prosecutors say The Department of Justice told a sentencing judge on Wednesday that a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contractor took the job specifically to steal and leak President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Washington resident Charles Littlejohn pleaded guilty in October last year
WASHINGTON—The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Wednesday a partial government shutdown would force the agency to suspend its investigation into the cabin panel blowout on a Boeing 737 MAX 9. Congress faces a Friday night deadline to continue to fund some government operations. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said in a letter that because
The former president says opponent Nikki Haley is ‘counting on Democrats and liberals to infiltrate’ the state’s Republican primaries. Former president Donald Trump criticized New Hampshire’s open Republican primary during a Jan. 17 campaign speech in the state. After President Trump won a record-shattering victory by a nearly 30-point margin in the Iowa Caucus, candidates
The former president says opponent Nikki Haley is ‘counting on Democrats and liberals to infiltrate’ the state’s Republican primaries. Former president Donald Trump, during a Jan. 17 campaign speech in New Hampshire, criticized the state’s Republican primary system that allows unaffiliated residents to vote. After President Trump won a record-shattering victory by a nearly 30-point
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was forced to change planes while returning to the United States from Switzerland on Jan. 17 after the Boeing 737 jet he was meant to fly in suffered a mechanical failure, a State Department official has confirmed. Mr. Blinken boarded the government-owned modified Boeing plane in Zurich following a day