Israeli warplanes struck Lebanon‘s Bekaa Valley on Monday, killing at least two Hezbollah members in its deepest attack into Lebanese territory since hostilities erupted with the Iran-backed group last October, sources in Lebanon said. The Israeli Army said its fighter jets had struck Hezbollah air defenses in the Bekaa Valley in response to the downing of an Israeli
Republican Party chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said on Monday she was leaving the job, after weeks of public pressure from the party’s likely 2024 presidential candidate, Donald Trump. The move came after former president Trump, the frontrunner for the party’s presidential nomination, indicated he wanted to make changes to the Republican National Committee as he prepares
The former president of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, who resigned in December after telling a congressional panel that calls for genocide of Jews did not necessarily constitute bullying or harassment, signed off last year on sanctions for a professor who had criticized diversity initiatives. Magill accepted the recommendations of a Penn hearing board
Birzeit University’s Right to Education Campaign seeks to build ‘tactics of focused resistance’ Palestinian Hamas militants (Chris McGrath/Getty Images) In the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, professors and students from prominent U.S. universities have participated in virtual discussions on the Jewish state’s retaliatory war organized by a Palestinian university that hosts campus
When someone emerges from a challenging childhood to become a successful adult and writes a memoir about the experience, one of two narratives usually emerges: The first, and most lucrative in today’s market, is what might be called the “wallowing” narrative. Such books settle personal and familial scores; recount excessive drug use, promiscuity, and other
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was born in Russia in 1873 and died in the United States in 1943. Composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, he was another of those gifts the great tyrants of Europe—Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler—bestowed on America. An aristocrat, an artist, a man of spiritual depth, Rachmaninoff was in every way a man of the
REVIEW: ‘You’re Not Alone: The Conservative Woman’s Guide to College’ by Karin A. Lips Guillermo Spelucin/Grabien Somewhere, in some sorority house, a Brittany and a Jess discuss what color glitter they should paint this year’s rush banner. Brittany prefers red and white—’Bama colors—and Jess wants pink to match Alpha Phi’s recruitment bid-day theme of “Dream