WASHINGTON FREE BEACON

Brown University President Spikes the Football After Botched Shooting Response, Praising Police and Condemning ‘Doxxing’

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Christina Paxson’s 1,000-word message to the ‘Brown community’ came after the shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, killed one other person and himself before he was found Christina Paxson (Libby O’Neill/Getty Images) Brown University president Christina Paxson sent a lengthy statement to the “Brown community” addressing the Saturday shooting that left two students dead. She condemned “gun violence,” lamented

Elizabeth Warren and Lina Khan Killed Amazon’s iRobot Acquisition Over Data Privacy Concerns. Now China Gets The Data.

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During the Biden administration, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and her fellow progressives teamed up with then-Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan to kill Amazon’s merger with iRobot, the maker of Roomba, citing antitrust and data privacy concerns. Now, iRobot’s technology and consumer data are headed to China, posing what an iRobot cofounder says will

Bill Barr Defends Legality of Trump Boat Strikes and Describes Danger of Maduro Regime: Hezbollah’s ‘Anchor in Our Hemisphere’

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Former attorney general Bill Barr on Friday spoke in favor of President Donald Trump’s strikes on Venezuelan drug boats and argued that U.S. intervention in the South American dictatorship could discourage neighboring states from working with Hezbollah and the Chinese Communist Party. “Venezuela is a strategic adversary and a danger to the United States,” Barr

New York’s Next Top Cop? Meet Saritha Komatireddy, the Former Federal Prosecutor Who Took Down ISIS Terrorists—and Is Now Gunning for Letitia James

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Saritha Komatireddy believes in longshots, she told the Washington Free Beacon. Komatireddy, a 41-year-old mother of four and former federal prosecutor, announced her candidacy for New York attorney general last week as a Republican in a state former vice president Kamala Harris won by double digits in the 2024 presidential election. Less than a quarter

Wes Moore Won a Key White House Post Claiming He Was ‘Touted as a Foremost Expert’ on Radical Islam and Was Studying for an Oxford PhD—But His Thesis Is ‘Missing’ and There’s No Evidence He Was Ever a Doctoral Student

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Maryland governor Wes Moore, now considered a serious prospect for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, got his big break in 2006. Fresh off a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, President George W. Bush awarded Moore, then 27, a White House fellowship, a prestigious, year-long internship during which he served as a special assistant to then-secretary of

Harvard Ousts Director of Human Rights Center Targeted By Trump Admin Over Rampant Anti-Semitism

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Mary T. Bassett accused Israel of ‘potential genocide’ in a message to students and faculty Mary Bassett (harvard.edu) Harvard University ousted Mary T. Bassett as director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights, which has been a prime target in the Trump administration’s campaign against anti-Semitism at the Ivy League school.

EXCLUSIVE: In Wake of Free Beacon Report, Trump Administration To Investigate Federal Contractors That Say They Won’t Hire US Citizens

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Several IT firms that appear to bar U.S. citizens from certain jobs also have contracts with the federal government, suggesting that they are discriminating against Americans even as they receive millions in taxpayer largesse. The Trump administration is now investigating those companies, and the General Services Administration told the Washington Free Beacon it would “take