A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump does not have immunity from charges that he plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat, bringing the former U.S. president a step closer to an unprecedented criminal trial. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Trump’s claim that he
When Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, then an emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2019 arguing that political issues like climate change and gun control had no place in medical school curricula, Larry Jameson, then the dean of Penn’s medical school, denounced Goldfarb by name.
Jane Lubchenco is barred from publishing in scientific journals following ethics violations White House science official Jane Lubchenco (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) A senior White House official barred from publishing scientific studies or working with the National Academy of Sciences led the federal government’s embrace of “indigenous knowledge.” In August 2022, the National Academy
The BBC has sacked its senior staffer who came under fire for posting anti-Semitic remarks on Facebook in recent months. The outlet confirmed on Monday that it had fired Dawn Queva, a senior scheduling coordinator and playout planner at BBC Three who frequently used anti-Semitic slurs online, including “Nazi apartheid parasites,” “thieving squatters,” and “subcontinental melanin
Interim president Larry Jameson said he finds Annenberg lecturer Dwayne Booth’s cartoons ‘reprehensible’ but won’t take action University of Pennsylvania’s interim president, Larry Jameson, responded on Sunday to a slew of grotesque anti-Semitic cartoons published by a lecturer at Penn’s Annenberg School of Communications, saying that while he personally finds the images “reprehensible,” the school
A speaker accused Israel of committing “genocide” against the Palestinians and launched into an anti-American tirade during a recent Martin Luther King Jr. memorial ceremony at Northwestern University with the school’s president in attendance, prompting some students to walk out of the event. Rev. Dr. Reginald W. Williams Jr., the pastor of the First Baptist
The Democratic Socialists of America’s Los Angeles chapter censured one of its members over the weekend because a pro-Israel Democratic group endorsed her reelection bid for L.A. City Council. The DSA said in a letter sent Saturday to L.A. councilwoman Nithya Raman (D.) that she undermined the group’s “commitment to overcoming imperialist capitalism and the