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(Headline USA) Columbia University’s president took a firm stance against anti-Semitism in a congressional hearing on Wednesday, but she faced bruising criticism from Republicans who say her actions haven’t supported her words, especially when it comes to disciplining faculty and students accused of bias. Nemat Shafik's visit to Capitol Hill...

(Headline USA) Republican attorneys general attacked the Biden administration’s stated goal of pursuing "environmental justice," giving it a more appropriate term: “racial engineering.‘’ Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and 22 other GOP officials asked the EPA Tuesday to stop using civil rights laws to investigate actions and policies that result...

(Headline USA) A Tennessee judge on Wednesday seemed ready to agree with an attorney for Nashville police that the writings of school shooter Audrey Hale could be released as public record once the investigation is officially closed. But the parents of children at the Covenant School added an extra twist...

(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it easier for workers who are transferred from one job to another against their will to pursue job discrimination claims under federal civil rights law, even when they are not demoted or docked pay. Workers only have to show that the transfer...

(Headline USA) Tesla is asking shareholders to restore a pay package---initually valued at $56 billion--- for CEO Elon Musk after it was rejected by a Delaware judge this year. The changes, to be voted on by stockholders at a June 13 annual meeting, also include a proposal to shift the...

(Headline USA) An engineer at Boeing said Wednesday that the aircraft company, in rushing to produce as many planes as possible, was taking manufacturing shortcuts that could lead to jetliners breaking apart. “They are putting out defective airplanes,” the engineer, Sam Salehpour, told members of a Senate subcommittee. Salehpour was testifying...

(Headline USA) Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation Wednesday to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state's November ballot. The Republican-led legislature's accommodations mirrored those made four years ago for then-President Donald Trump, although the changing political landscape due to Democrats' reckless brinksmanship in waging a series of lawfare attacks...

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Investigative journalist James O'Keefe released footage in a Wednesday Tweet of a White House official spilling the beans on who really runs the White House. As it turns out, White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, along with a few other key figures in the administration,...

(Headline USA) Democrats in the Arizona Senate cleared a path to bring a proposed repeal of the state’s near-total ban on abortions to a vote after the state’s highest court concluded the law can be enforced and the state House blocked efforts to undo the long-dormant statute. Although no vote...

(Headline USA) The Justice Department has reportedly agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say that the FBI ignored their complaints after they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar, according to an anonymous source who spoke with the Associated Press. The...

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Since they survived the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack at a music festival, nearly 50 Israelis who narrowly avoided captivity that day appear to have committed suicide, the Daily Mail reported. Some of the Supernova festival attendees claim that, since the date of the attack—which included...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump's presence in New York City for his criminal trial led by embattled Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has commanded significant media attention.  However, on Tuesday, Trump made a notable stop at a bodega, where a worker defended himself against a violent assailant, only...