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
Dems sunk acting labor secretary’s nomination over perceived favoritism toward unions Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for One Fair Wage) Julie Su, whom President Joe Biden renominated last week as his labor secretary, favored meetings and events with union leaders over business groups as the Labor Department hammered out its
Former president Donald Trump is tied with former South Carolina governor and ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in a New Hampshire poll released Tuesday, a week before the state’s Republican primary. Trump and Haley each had 40 percent support in the poll from the American Research Group, while Florida governor Ron DeSantis took
Climate czar John Kerry said Wednesday that President Joe Biden’s policies promoting electric vehicles and other aspects of his transition to green energy have faced attacks from people engaged in “disinformation.” “There has been a very, very clear policy, which, regrettably, has been attacked by people who are engaged in high levels of disinformation,” Kerry,
The Biden administration moved to reapply sanctions this week on the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, but did so under a weaker federal statute that will not criminalize support for the terrorist group or force American banks to seize their assets, current and former U.S. officials told the Washington Free Beacon. After months of Houthi attacks on
More than 800 people died of accidental drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2023, making last year the deadliest on record, according to a Wednesday report from the city’s medical examiner. Fentanyl accounted for most of the 806 deaths, followed by meth and cocaine. Thirty-seven people died from Xylazine, an adulterant known as “tranq” that