Harvard University has shed fresh light on the ongoing investigation into plagiarism accusations against former president Claudine Gay‚ including that an independent body recommended a broader review after substantiating some of the complaints. In a letter Friday to a congressional committee‚ Harvard said it learned of the plagiarism allegations against its first Black female president on Oct. 24 from a New York Post reporter. The school reached out to several authors whom Gay is accused of...

Dexter Scott King‚ the youngest son of Martin Luther King Jr.‚ died Monday morning after a “valiant battle with prostate cancer‚” the King Center announced. Dexter’s wife‚ Leah Weber King‚ wrote in a statement that Dexter “transitioned peacefully in his sleep at home with me in Malibu.” She said her husband of 11 years “gave it everything and battled this terrible disease until the end.” “As with all the challenges in his life‚ he faced this hurdle with bravery and might‚” she wrote.

The Supreme Court is allowing US Border Patrol agents to remove razor wire deployed by Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott’s security initiative at the US-Mexico border while the state’s legal challenge to the practice plays out. The vote was 5-4. The justices’ order is a major victory for President Joe Biden in his ongoing dispute with Abbott over border policy‚ which had become especially fraught in recent days after three migrants drowned in a section of the Rio Grande that state officials have...

With Ron DeSantis suspending his presidential campaign on Sunday‚ Nikki Haley gets the one-on-one match-up with Donald Trump for which she's been longing. "At one point in this campaign‚ there were 14 of us running‚" she says in an email fundraising pitch‚ sent out shortly after the DeSantis news broke. "But today‚ it's officially a two-person race between me and Donald Trump!" Ms Haley's showdown with Mr Trump in the state-by-state contest to choose a Republican presidential candidate...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) executed a search warrant last week at an Ohio-based Chinese auto parts manufacturer that a congressional committee has accused of trade fraud. DHS agents searched the Harco Manufacturing Group in Moraine‚ Ohio‚ on Thursday‚ the Dayton Daily News reported. Harco is a U.S. subsidiary of Qingdao Sunsong‚ a Chinese auto parts manufacturer. Sunsong Holdings acquired Harco in 2015. The address for Harco is the same address Sunsong North America lists...

China's major state-owned banks moved to support the yuan on Monday‚ tightening liquidity in the offshore foreign exchange market while actively selling U.S. dollars onshore as equities slid‚ four sources with knowledge of the matter said. The goal was to prevent the yuan from falling too fast as China's A shares plunged‚ said one of the people‚ with the benchmark Shanghai Composite index (.SSEC) ‚ opens new tab posting its biggest one-day drop since April 2022 on Monday‚ down 2.7%. "...

Explosive divorce documents which could derail the election fraud case against Donald Trump in Georgia were ruled to be unsealed by a judge Monday. Evidence of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ “improper” relationship with Nathan Wade – the special prosecutor bringing the election fraud charges – is included in the file‚ in the form of credit card charges for trips the pair took together to Miami and California. Their alleged romantic relationship was first exposed in a filing...

Even though Ford’s F-150 Lightning truck sits shiny and pretty on the Celebrity of Toms River dealership floor‚ that’s apparently the only place the car is going. "It's a really beautiful truck‚ but we're having some trouble getting it off of our lot‚" Veronica Maoli‚ America’s youngest female Ford dealer‚ told FOX Business’ Jeff Flock on "Mornings with Maria" Monday. "There's a lot of charging concerns. A lot of commercial companies don't really want to have to spend the time to charge...

Iranian-supported Iraqi militias injured two U.S. troops at Al-Asad Air Base in western Iraq in an attack this weekend. These militias have now carried out more than 150 attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria who are stationed there to assist in the campaign to defeat the Islamic State since mid-October. Dozens of U.S. troops have been injured during these attacks‚ while two U.S. troops and one Iraqi soldier were injured in the Saturday attack‚ which Pentagon deputy spokeswoman...

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