Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign on Thursday demanded debates be held earlier and more often this year, saying Trump is willing to debate President Joe Biden “anytime, anyplace, and anywhere.” “While the Commission on Presidential Debates has already announced three presidential debates and a vice-presidential debate to occur later this year, we are in
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) on Thursday refused to condemn recent chants of “death to America” and “death to Israel” from protesters in her district, instead accusing Fox News of using “racist tropes.” “I don’t talk to Fox News. I don’t talk to people who use racist tropes,” Tlaib said when a Fox News reporter
Professor Jo Boaler misrepresented research in her work, complaint alleges Stanford professor Jo Boaler (stanford.edu) Stanford University has opened an investigation into allegations that California’s prominent “math equity” advocate, math education professor Jo Boaler, misused research to support contentious claims that underpin her work, according to an email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. “We
Harvard College will once again require applicants to submit standardized test scores, the Ivy League school announced Thursday, years after it dropped the requirement during the coronavirus pandemic. Harvard unveiled the change through a statement from its Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean, Hopi Hoekstra. Starting next year, Hoekstra said, prospective undergraduate students must submit
O.J. Simpson, the American football star and actor who was acquitted in a sensational 1995 trial of murdering his former wife but was found responsible for her death in a civil lawsuit and was later imprisoned for armed robbery and kidnapping, has died at the age of 76. Simpson, cleared by a Los Angeles jury
‘You see it at school board meetings when people come and raise hell,’ senator says during campaign event Sen. Tim Kaine (Twitter/@timkaine) Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va.) drew parallels between parents who “raise hell” at school board meetings and Jan. 6 rioters, calling those parents “negative, complaining, name-calling pessimists” working to “tear us down and
‘Harvard has a responsibility to listen to us,’ says Asmer Asrar Safi Asmer Safi (via asmersafi.me) The Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee, an anti-Israel student group, passed a petition on Tuesday that started the wheels turning toward a student referendum on whether Harvard University should divest from Israel. The student behind the effort is a