The U.S. military’s cost estimate to build a pier off Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid has risen to $320 million, a U.S. defense official and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. The figure, which has not been previously reported, illustrates the massive scale of a construction effort that the Pentagon has said involves
‘We urge those in the encampment to voluntarily disperse,’ Shafik says in statement Columbia President Minouche Shafik testifies before the House Education Committee(Alex Wong/Getty Images) MANHATTAN—For days, Columbia University president Minouche Shafik declined to clear out the unsanctioned “Gaza Solidarity” encampment in favor of negotiations with student protest leaders. Now, she says those negotiations brought
John McGuire doesn’t look like the stereotypical Navy SEAL. At five-foot-eight, a Navy recruiter told him he was too small to serve in the special operations force. McGuire, a Richmond, Va., native who was abandoned as a child and spent years in the foster care system, volunteered for SEAL training anyway and went on to
Henry Kissinger spent his last day as secretary of state looking into Joe and Frank Biden’s taxpayer-funded Africa junket (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Today, Joe Biden’s 1976 Africa junket is best remembered as the scene for the president’s discredited claim that he was arrested “on the streets of Soweto” in apartheid South Africa when trying to
Nearly two weeks ago, Columbia University president Minouche Shafik assured members of Congress that an anti-Semitic professor had been terminated. That professor, Mohamed Abdou, was “grading his students’ papers” before the end of the semester and would “never teach at Columbia again,” Shafik said. Instead, Abdou—a self-described “Muslim anarchist” who teaches a class on “Decolonial-Queerness
Biden created the Climate Corps via executive action last year after urging from Ocasio-Cortez (Getty Images) President Joe Biden’s taxpayer-funded American Climate Corps is looking to hire dozens of “Garden Educators” who will work on “activating elementary school gardens as a learning laboratory for environmental education.” Job postings for the $20-per hour-position list “a commitment
It’s a rare book that opens with the writer admitting he’s an asshole, and different readers will, of course, respond differently to this unique authorial strategy. Do we hurl the book across the room? Toss it on the Weber and set it on fire? Drown it in the bath tub? Or do we, Looney Tunes-like,