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What is correct is that the president’s war on academia has focused intensely on the Ivy League, the richly endowed collection of eight schools, most founded in the colonial era, that cost $90,000 or more a year, send a disproportionate number of graduates into America’s leadership class and accounted for less than 1 percent of the nation’s undergraduate enrollment in the fall of 2022.Mr. Trump’s attacks on this elite group — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania — have endeared him to his political base. He is withholding, or threatening to withhold, billions of…

Trump’s AI photo of him as pope sparks worldwide outrage – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump’s attempt at papal humor sparked worldwide outrage on Saturday. With the conclave just days away, the White House released an AI-generated photo of him in full pope attire. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link

Activism / April 29, 2025 Trump supporters may think they’re hardcore, but they seem to be afraid of op-eds, books, and history they can’t even bear to read. Ad Policy Tom Morello and Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine perform as part of a free concert at Finsbury Park on June 6, 2010, in London, England.(Christie Goodwin / Getty Images) I saw Rage Against the Machine in concert at a packed Capitol One arena in Washington, DC, in 2022. Lead singer Zack de la Rocha performed the show in a wheelchair, because he’d shattered his ankle on…

Seven months before fire swept through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, the city’s water managers were formulating a plan to revive an old reservoir to temporarily boost the area’s limited water capacity.The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was exploring the option because the neighborhood’s main reservoir — the Santa Ynez Reservoir — had been taken offline as a result of a torn cover, which officials had begun preparations to repair early in 2024. The repair project was still months away from completion this January when the fire broke out, and with the reservoir empty, firefighters ran…

5/3: CBS Weekend News – CBS News Watch CBS News Warren Buffett steps down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, says Greg Abel should be successor; Kentucky distillery defies historic flooding and reopens for “Derby Week” Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link

The United States imposed 25 percent tariffs on imported auto parts on Saturday that could sharply raise prices for new and used vehicles as well as for repairs and insurance.The latest tariffs, which President Trump ordered in March as part of his plan to promote domestic manufacturing, come after the 25 percent levies on imported cars that took effect in early April.This second round of duties on imported parts will have a broader impact because even cars made in the United States often have engines, transmissions, batteries or other components produced in other countries.The administration said on Tuesday that the…

Dr. Alan Garber, president of Harvard, disagrees with President Trump about many things. He is fighting Mr. Trump as the federal government tries to strip Harvard of billions of dollars in research funding and its nonprofit tax status.But Dr. Garber agrees with Mr. Trump on one point. In one of the rare interviews he has given since Harvard began its battle with the federal government, Dr. Garber said this week that Harvard has a campus culture problem that needs urgent fixing.Harvard has often shut out voices that many liberals disagree with, he said, and it has allowed antisemitism to go…

The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is on its way to becoming an official city with a galactic name: Starbase.A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was approved by a small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees at SpaceX.Starbase is the facility and launch site for the SpaceX rocket program that is under contract with the Department of Defense and NASA, which hopes to send astronauts back to the moon and someday to Mars.Early results look favorable  Musk first floated the idea of Starbase in 2021, and approval…

NPR’s Don Gonyea talks to Morgan Sung, host of the KQED podcast ‘Close All Tabs,’ about the rise of the ‘broligarchy’. DON GONYEA, HOST: OK. Have you heard the term the broligarchy (ph)?(SOUNDBITE OF MONTAGE)BRIDIE JABOUR: We’re seeing a rise in what I guess we’ll call the broligarchy.BROOKE HARRINGTON: The broligarchs really have an explicit political agenda.KEVIN HIRTEN: How do you survive the broligarchy?GONYEA: That was Kevin Hirten on Al Jazeera’s “The Take,” sociologist Brooke Harrington on “The Daily Show” and Bridie Jabour of The Guardian Australia. The broligarchy is a term that refers to the rich, well-connected tech bros…

An Ohio man drove his car into a sheriff’s deputy, killing him in what the authorities said appeared to be an intentional act that happened the day after the driver’s 18-year-old son had been shot and killed by the Cincinnati police.The man, Rodney L. Hinton, 38, was being held without bond on Saturday on one count of aggravated murder, according to documents in Hamilton County Municipal Court.Mr. Hinton is accused of hitting a Hamilton County deputy who was directing traffic outside of a University of Cincinnati graduation event at approximately 1 p.m. on Friday, Chief Teresa Theetge of the Cincinnati…