Publicly, Harvard continues to be the focus of resistance to the Trump administration. Just today Harvard received some additional support from two dozen universities, including several more from the Ivy League, in its lawsuit against the administration. Twenty four universities, including five Ivy League schools, and more than 12,000 alumni took measures to back Harvard...
Reading the headlines I thought at first maybe Harvard had issued two new letters to the Trump Administration. The Washington Post story was headlined “Harvard rejects Trump administration’s claims as funding battle escalates.” Sounds pretty resistance-y to me. But the NY Times headline about what turns out to be the same letter is headlined very...
Marco Velazquez owns a South Side home in Chicago that he was trying sell. One day earlier this month, his realtor went by the home to show it to a potential buyer and discovered a couple had already moved in and claimed they were the rightful owners. Velazquez called the police. “I couldn’t believe it....
Helen Bushby Culture reporter Getty Images Kara Weipz learned from a news report her brother had died in the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing Richard Monetti was aged just 20 when he was flying home to New York from London for the Christmas holidays, after studying abroad as one of 35 students from Syracuse University. But...
Julian O’Neill BBC News NI crime and justice correspondent PA Media Gerry Adams, pictured on Thursday, is giving evidence for the third day of his libel case against the BBC The former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said he was insulted by the BBC’s response to his complaint about a Spotlight programme dealing with...
The office of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered its condolences for Pope Francis, four days after his death. An earlier offer of condolences posted on social media by the official state account of Israel had previously been deleted, causing considerable controversy within the country. Israel is also sending a relatively low-level delegation...
Northamptonshire skipper Luke Procter led from the front as his team fought back on the second day of their County Championship Division Two match against Derbyshire at Derby. Procter made an unbeaten 97 and shared an opening stand of 143 with Ricardo Vasconcelos, who passed 50 for the first time this season, scoring 82 off...
A third-wicket stand of 123, after Nottinghamshire had ended on 347, proved the platform for what looks a clear, if hardly decisive, Essex advantage at Trent Bridge. Jordan Cox, cruelly denied a Test debut when fracturing his thumb in the nets on England’s tour of New Zealand last November, continued to a sweetly timed 82...
From Liza’s Gender Commission, we present this article as a complement to the translation of the text “Trans Counteroffensive” by the Union Communiste Libertaire (UCL). The document produced by our companions provides a contextual analysis of the trans issue both internationally and nationally within the French context, outlines the organization’s theoretical stance on including trans...
“There’s a lot of other rich countries in the world, they should all be pitching in. “We’re going to do our part. We already have people there. We’ll have more people there. We’ll help as much as we can [but] it’s not the easiest place to work… they have a military junta that doesn’t like...
Lawson struggled to come to terms with the wayward handling of the Red Bull car. He qualified 18th for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, and last for both the sprint and main grand prix in China, and failed to make significant progress in any of the races. Red Bull demoted him because they felt he...
Former Royal Navy Officer Becks Pearson is in charge of the project Read full article at source...