Executive order is reportedly aimed at ‘driving Iran’s oil exports to zero’ (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) President Donald Trump is set to restore his “maximum pressure” sanctions campaign on Iran in a bid to eliminate the country’s illicit oil exports. An impending executive order, which Trump is expected to sign on Tuesday, will reverse the Biden
West Point falsely told ProPublica that Hegseth was never accepted into the academy Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to reporters (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) A watchdog group sued the United States Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday for allegedly withholding public records related to false claims the school made to the press regarding Defense
Brown University Medical School bills itself as a “national leader in medical education and biomedical research” that has attracted “first-class physicians and researchers.” What exactly does the school mean by “first class”? To earn a promotion, faculty in the Department of Medicine must demonstrate a “commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion,” the Free Beacon‘s Aaron
Brown University Medical School now gives “diversity, equity, and inclusion” more weight than “excellent clinical skills” in its promotion criteria for faculty, raising questions about the quality of teaching and patient care at the elite medical school and underscoring how deeply DEI has penetrated medical education. The criteria, which are posted on Brown’s website and have
As the Trump administration works to shrink the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and place it under the State Department’s umbrella, congressional Democrats have argued that the move “endangers lives and undermines U.S. national security.” But away from funding for lifesaving medicines like HIV drugs, funding that is exempt from the State Department’s
Office for Civil Rights is investigating ‘widespread antisemitic harassment’ at Columbia, Berkeley, and Northwestern (Getty Images) The Department of Education on Monday opened investigations into “widespread antisemitic harassment” at Columbia University and four other schools in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians. The probe stems from an executive order
‘The Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is the first step in giving life to President Trump’s renewed commitment to ending anti-Semitism in our schools,’ task force head Leo Terrell says (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) The Trump administration is forming a multi-agency task force “to root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses,”