The ousters of the presidents of two prestigious universities in the past month have been a cause for celebration among conservatives who think they could be stepping stones to changes they've long wanted in higher education. Harvard President Claudine Gay and University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) President Liz Magill both are gone from their positions after their controversial congressional testimony at the beginning of December, with Gay also facing substantial allegations of plagiarism. |
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Cases of three major respiratory viruses — the flu, COVID-19 and RSV — are surging in the U.S., pushing the country toward a feared "tripledemic" during its first post-pandemic respiratory viral season. Optimism was high this autumn as the U.S. headed into the viral season. The national arsenal against these viruses had vaccines against RSV for the first time, newly updated COVID-19 vaccines, and the flu "immunity. |
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Ukraine's counteroffensive did not go as planned, but 2023 was not entirely a loss in its war against Russia. Kyiv scored a major victory last year in the sea while global attention was focused on ground movements. In the Black Sea, Ukraine forced the Russian fleet to retreat from the historic headquarters of Sevastopol in Crimea after hitting ships and key buildings repeatedly with drones and missiles. That was a personal blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who lauded the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014. |
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The Supreme Court's expected decision this summer on whether to restrict access to medication abortion promises to keep the issue front and center of the 2024 election. Justices will hear a case weighing federal approval of the common abortion pill mifepristone, with a likely ruling in June — five months before voters decide who will go to the White House and Congress, and almost exactly two years after the high court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. |
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Former federal judge Michael Luttig argued Saturday that former President Trump's violation of the 14th Amendment "couldn't be any clearer." "Section three of the 14th Amendment simply could not be any clearer that the former President is disqualified from the presidency as the Colorado Supreme Court held," Luttig told MSNBC's Ali Velshi on Saturday, the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. |
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he could have better informed the public about his recent hospitalization after concerns arose over transparency and what the Pentagon knew. "I am very glad to be on the mend and look forward to returning to the Pentagon soon," Austin said in a statement Saturday. "I also understand the media concerns about transparency and I recognize I could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed. I commit to doing better." |
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Republican Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) said he would not accept being fellow candidate Nikki Haley's running mate "under any circumstances." "Well, I can tell you, I am not going to accept that under any circumstances," DeSantis told Fox News' Neil Cavuto on Saturday. "You know, I'm running for president because I think we need somebody that can win and get the job done." |
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Mark Esper, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense, said former President Trump is a "threat to democracy" on the third anniversary of the Capitol riot. "And yes, I do regard him as a threat to democracy, democracy as we know it, our institutions, our political culture, all those things that make America great and have defined us as, you know, the oldest democracy on this planet," Esper told CNN's Jim Acosta on Saturday. |
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Former President Trump shared his condolences for the victims and their families of a recent school shooting in Iowa during a campaign stop in the Hawkeye State Friday — but then urged his supporters to "move forward." "I want to send our support and our deepest sympathies to the victims and families touched by the terrible school shooting yesterday in Perry, Iowa," Trump said during a campaign rally in Sioux City. |
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OPINION | Just over a week after Oct. 7, while Israel was still reeling from the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust, President Joe Biden landed in Tel Aviv with a warning: Don't repeat America's mistakes. Biden was thinking of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the series of U.S. military interventions — some would say misadventures — that followed. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin also worried that Israel faced the prospect of "strategic defeat" in its war against Hamas, adding, "You know, I learned a thing or two about urban warfare from my time fighting in Iraq and leading the campaign to defeat ISIS." Israel has seemingly not heeded the advice of its strongest ally. Why? |
OPINION | As a scientist with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Frances Kelsey single-handedly prevented thalidomide, a drug now infamous for causing horrific birth defects, from reaching patients in the United States. Today, 70 years later, we Americans are fortunate to have thousands of people like Dr. Kelsey working across the federal government to protect us not just from dangerous pharmaceuticals, but also from banks that might cheat us out of our hard-earned money and from employers who think nothing of risking their workers' lives. |
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Nearly a week before the state's caucuses, a frenzy of campaigning belies a seemingly static G.O.P. race, with former President Donald J. Trump the prohibitive front-runner.
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BY PATIENCE HAGGIN AND ALLISON POHLE |
Passengers recount harrowing experience after a chunk of the plane broke off midair |
President Joe Biden will give his annual State of the Union address on March 7. The invitation came Saturday from House Speaker Mike Johnson for the president to speak to a joint session of Congress. |
BY ISAAC ARNSDORF, JOSH DAWSEY AND MARIANNE LEVINE |
Although Trump and his campaign have used the 91 charges he faces across four criminal indictments as an effective rallying cry in the GOP presidential race, the particulars have not always been ideal in the eyes of some of his advisers. |
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