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
Rep. Bob Good proposes bill to block Iran diplomacy until it severs cash ties to China and ends Hamas support Rep. Bob Good (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Republican legislation in the House would bar the Biden administration from spending taxpayer dollars to advance a nuclear deal with Iran until the hardline regime severs its cash ties
Anti-Israel “Squad” member Summer Lee (Pa.) wants voters to remember she’s “strongly endorsed” by Pennsylvania senator Bob Casey. Casey may wish they would forget. Lee, who has accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, distributed campaign mailers last month saying she is “strongly endorsed” by Casey, mailers obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. The
Golden State has spent $24 billion in five years as crisis worsens (Mario Tama/Getty Images) California is not tracking the billions in taxpayer dollars that have been poured into the homelessness crisis and the agency in charge has not established a process for keeping tabs on myriad programs and whether or not they work, the