‘The Committee has not seen your commitments to discipline, enforcement, and security come to satisfactory fruition,’ Chairman Tim Walberg wrote Northwestern University president Michael Schill appears at a congressional hearing (Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images) The House Committee on Education and Workforce is turning up the heat on Northwestern University president Michael Schill, demanding he sit
Amtrak’s rules are clear: ‘Passengers are required to wear shoes at all times’ CNN’s top media blogger, Brian Stelter, waddled shoeless on an Amtrak train leaving Washington, D.C., on Sunday after a weekend of heavy partying to celebrate the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, aka “nerd prom,” the Washington Free Beacon has learned. A series
The Education Department and HHS will investigate whether the journal violated civil rights law (Edited from Scott Eisen/Getty Images) The Trump administration on Monday launched multiple probes of Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review, citing allegations that the flagship law journal discriminates based on race. The Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human
‘Today’s action underscores our commitment to disrupt the Houthis’ efforts to fund their dangerous and destabilizing attacks in the region,’ says Treasury Houthi military helicopter flies over the Galaxy Leader cargo ship in the Red Sea (Houthi Military Media/Reuters) The Trump administration unveiled fresh sanctions Monday on a Houthi procurement network, targeting three shipping companies
County Attorney Mary Moriarty came under fire last week for not charging state employee caught vandalizing Teslas Mary Moriarty (@HennepinAtty) Prosecutors in Minnesota’s largest county are now required to take a criminal defendant’s race into account when negotiating plea deals, following a new directive from Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty (D.). “While racial identity and
A different kind of sanctions relief: Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health partnered with China’s national health insurer in 2019 to offer an annual “training course on health financing.” Included in the inaugural training were officials from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), a state-run “paramilitary group.” The United States sanctioned the XPCC
For decades, federal law has required U.S. universities to disclose the sources of large foreign donations to the federal government. But the Biden administration sparsely enforced the law, allowing foreign nationals from adversarial countries to funnel cash to top American schools and stay anonymous. In some cases, it’s unclear whether the schools themselves are keeping