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On April 1, the chair of the University of California, Berkeley’s academic senate, Amani Nuru-Jeter, issued a dire warning about academic freedom. “Recent actions by the federal government,” she told colleagues in an email, “are chilling open inquiry and undermining self-governance at American universities.” She was referring to the Trump administration’s decision to pause $400

Former president Joe Biden fell asleep poolside during a prep session ahead of his disastrous June debate with Donald Trump, according to the author of a new book on the 2024 election. “At one point … Biden wanders out in the middle of the session, he wanders out to the pool, collapses into a lounge

Amateur ballerina Ksenia Karelina, unjustly imprisoned on Biden’s watch, is heading home to the land of the free Getty Images President Donald Trump is having one of the best weeks of his presidency. The stock market surged on Wednesday after Trump declared victory against unfair trade practices. He also ended the Obama-Biden “war on water

A top House panel that oversees public land policies is investigating five green groups that brokered a settlement with federal officials in the waning days of the Biden administration, forcing family-owned ranches to vacate their leases on federal property over environmental concerns, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Under the January 2025 settlement between the

His button is bigger than their button: The Trump administration is days away from nuclear negotiations with Iran, but it isn’t pulling any punches in the meantime. Trump’s Treasury Department imposed a new round of sanctions on Wednesday targeting “key entities managing and overseeing Iran’s nuclear program,” the Free Beacon‘s Adam Kredo reports, including the

Vanderbilt, UT Austin—which received high marks from the Anti-Defamation League—break into T14 Columbia protesters (Alex Kent/Getty Images), Harvard protesters (Reuters/Brian Snyder) Harvard and Columbia Law Schools both plummeted in the 2025 U.S. News ranking amid ongoing controversies over campus anti-Semitism, while Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas at Austin joined the prestigious “T14” list.

Aaron Sibarium’s reporting on Yale and other Ivy League schools suggests conservatives are right not to trust them Wikimedia Commons The first step on the road to recovery is admitting you have a problem. The very fine people at Yale University appear to recognize that falling public trust in higher education is a problem, but