#Anti-Trump GOP group compares former president to Mussolini, Orban in new ad campaign

#Anti-Trump GOP group compares former president to Mussolini, Orban in new ad campaign

An anti-Trump Republican group, The Republican Accountability PAC, released a six-figure campaign advertisement Friday set to air on cable that compares former President Trump to dictators and authoritarian leaders throughout history. The ad, titled “Dictator Donald,” shows a Dec. 2022 post from Trump where the former president said previous elections, particularly the 2020 presidential election,…

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#House committee to investigate allegations of plagiarism against Harvard president

#House committee to investigate allegations of plagiarism against Harvard president

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said Wednesday that the House Education Committee will expand its investigation into Harvard President Claudine Gay to include allegations that she committed plagiarism in academic work. The Education Committee previously held a hearing on campus antisemitism featuring Gay and the leaders of the University of Pennsylvania and MIT. At that hearing,…

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#As antisemitism spikes on campuses, remember that colleges are also workplaces

#As antisemitism spikes on campuses, remember that colleges are also workplaces

The scenes of Jewish students experiencing antisemitism on college campuses are frightening. But colleges are also workplaces, and the antisemitism that Jewish staff and faculty are experiencing is no less frightening for its intensity, their inability to avoid it and their greater and more particularized fear of retaliation. The agency charged with enforcing federal antidiscrimination…

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#US, UK shoot down 15 drones launched from Yemen over Red Sea

#US, UK shoot down 15 drones launched from Yemen over Red Sea

The United States and the United Kingdom shot down 15 drones launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen early Saturday morning that were targeting commercial ships in the Red Sea. U.S. Central Command said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, that the USS Carney “successfully engaged 14 unmanned aerial systems launched as a drone wave from Houthi-controlled…

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#Scaramucci: House GOP ‘damaged our party’ with ‘specious’ Biden impeachment inquiry

#Scaramucci: House GOP ‘damaged our party’ with ‘specious’ Biden impeachment inquiry

Former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci attacked House Republicans for their attempts to impeach President Biden for allegations of family business corruption, saying the investigation is baseless and hurts the party with prospective voters. “I think it’s a specious inquiry. I disagree with it,” Scaramucci said in a NewsNation interview Friday. “I’m a lifelong Republican,…

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