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Ryder Glickman’s first day as chair of The New School University Student Senate (USS) was an eventful one. His inaugural act was to call a vote on a first-of-its-kind resolution to sanction Hillel at The New School. This vote followed the release of a 38-page report detailing Hillel’s potential violations of international law. The report, conducted by a student committee…

Israel’s Foreign Ministry denounced The New York Times for publishing an op-ed on Israel’s systemic sexual abuse of Palestinians. The New York Times “chose to publish one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry posted on X late on Monday. It went on to claim that the Times has an “agenda” and that the op-ed is “part of a fal...

On Monday night, President Donald Trump made a series of baseless and erratic accusations against his perceived political enemies, including expressing a desire to charge former President Barack Obama with sedition and treason over a conspiracy theory regarding the 2016 election. Over the period stretching from 12:00 am ET on Monday through 9:30 am ET on Tuesday, Trump posted...

The US Justice Department has reportedly subpoenaed The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets at the urging of President Donald Trump, who has complained incessantly about coverage of his illegal and disastrous Iran war. The Journal reported Monday that it received grand jury subpoenas dated March 4 for records of its journalists as Trump pushed the Justice Department — ...

The U.S. State Department announced on Thursday that it will begin revoking passports of parents who owe significant child support. The department said that it would begin revoking U.S. passports of parents who owe $100,000 in unpaid child support — some 2700 U.S. passport holders — before expanding to include any parents who owe more than $2,500 in child support. The Departm...