Australia warns universities could lose funding if they fail to address antisemitism on campus. Jillian Segal, the nation’s antisemitism envoy, unveiled a plan Thursday detailing steps universities, cultural institutions and other organizations should take to combat attacks on Jewish Australians. “Antisemitism is an evil scourge and there is no place in Australia for antisemitism. The […]
Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game will have a wrinkle previously seen only in spring training. The league’s automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system will be in use when the first pitch is thrown on Tuesday, July 15, at Truist Park in Atlanta. What is Major League Baseball’s ABS system? The ABS system allows players to challenge […]
A new survey of local election officials found 46% of them are concerned about politically motivated investigations targeting election workers. The Brennan Center Research Department spoke with more than 850 workers between April and May. Election worker concerns Those concerns don’t just stop with political investigations. The survey showed 59% of those questioned are worried […]
President Donald Trump wants low gas prices — $1.99 per gallon to be exact. In a press conference Wednesday, July 9, Trump claimed several states are already seeing $1.99 prices at the pump. But while the cost per gallon is falling in some regions, it remains steadily above the $2 mark across all 50 states. […]
Some Planned Parenthood locations have stopped accepting Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income individuals. President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” signed on July 4, immediately cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood for one year. On Monday, July 7, Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging the Medicaid payments provision […]
Navy veteran George E. Smith and Willard S. Boyle shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics for their 1969 invention of the light-sensitive charge-coupled device, which made digital imagery possible.
President Donald Trump clarified his position on a migrant farmworker program during this week’s cabinet meeting, stating that farmers will have an avenue to keep migrants in the U.S. without legal documentation on their payroll amid ongoing mass deportations. However, he emphasized that this does not constitute amnesty. Since the prospect of mass deportations was […]
Mobile network anomalies consistent with cell phone surveillance were detected at a July 4 protest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Washington state. Those anomalies, according to an independent analysis by Straight Arrow News, suggest that a device known as an IMSI catcher may have been used to collect identifying information on […]
Russia’s top diplomat is scheduled to visit North Korea during the week of July 6. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s trip to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) highlights the growing ties between Russia and North Korea. Why was the invitation extended? According to North Korea’s state media, the Korean Central News Agency, the […]
The term “alpha male” has been used to describe everything from CEOs to dating personalities. But a new scientific study suggests dominance might not be as natural as we’ve been led to believe. The study, published Monday, July 7, in PNAS, analyzed research from May 2020 to July 2024. Researchers studied more than 100 primate […]
