At Rutgers, faculty adopted a BDS resolution in December Rutgers protest (6ABC Action News), Biden (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images) President Joe Biden’s Department of Education reached an agreement Thursday with Rutgers University to settle civil rights complaints alleging that Jewish students faced discrimination on campus since October 2023. The school didn’t admit wrongdoing and
Ben Wikler led Wisconsin Dems as they branded themselves the ‘party of DEI’ Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler (Andy Manis/Getty Images for Green New Deal Network) Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday endorsed a longtime liberal activist who has embraced the anti-Israel wing of the Democratic Party to lead the Democratic National Committee. In
Joel Kaplan, the former George W. Bush adviser known for his outspoken support of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, is being promoted to head of the global policy team at Meta (formerly Facebook), where he has worked since 2011. Kaplan, who served as an artillery officer in the Marine Corps and clerked for
President Joe Biden is expected to “permanently” block new offshore oil and gas development in some U.S. coastal waters, a last-ditch effort to cement his climate legacy in his final weeks in the White House, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The executive order would prohibit the sale of new drilling rights in sections of America’s outer continental
Online encyclopedia has published ‘wildly inaccurate’ information about Jewish state (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images) Wikipedia editors quietly deleted an entry claiming that Hamas has won nearly every battle against Israel since Oct. 7, setting off a fiery debate about the online database’s bias and inability to accurately portray the war. In its article listing
Morgan Stanley became the latest U.S. bank to suspend its commitment to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a U.N. progressive climate program aimed at curbing all greenhouse gas emissions—including CO2—by 2050. The bank in its Thursday announcement did not specify why it left the alliance, but Republican state attorneys general have increased pressure on top American
Earlier this year, officials from across the Biden-Harris administration reviewed intelligence detailing Iraq’s central role in a billion-dollar Iranian oil smuggling scheme. But they largely ignored that intelligence, according to those briefed on the matter, giving Tehran what one former U.S. official described as a “free pass” to evade American sanctions and rake in illicit