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The aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel, Jewish and Israeli Harvard University students and faculty felt shunned and silenced, regardless of which side they supported, according to a report released this week.Harvard’s Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias found that during the 2023-2024 school year, when protests and tension roiled the university campus, Jewish and Israeli members of the Harvard community kept quiet during discussions of current events, and some hid their identity entirely. Read more: ‘My face was on the … truck’: Harvard report details climate of fear for pro-Palestine students Those who didn’t,…
The appointment of new members to the North Carolina elections board could alter the Supreme Court race results. NORTH CAROLINA, USA — A move on Thursday could throw more confusion into the North Carolina Supreme Court race. For months, the still-unsettled race between Allison Riggs and Jefferson Griffin has hung over the state. Griffin filed many protests and challenged thousands of votes, keeping the race alive. In the latest turn of events, under a new state law, the state auditor now has the power to appoint people to the state elections board. On Thursday, he appointed three Republicans. With the…
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is endorsing Anthony Tordillos in the upcoming runoff election for the District 3 seat on the City Council. Mahan announced his endorsement of Tordillos, chair of the San Jose Planning Commission, Friday in Politico’s daily newsletter. The pair are holding a news conference at San Pedro Square Market at 11 a.m. to talk about their shared priorities. “He is free thinking, data-driven and committed to figuring out what will work,” Mahan told Politico. Mahan previously endorsed Matthew Quevedo, his deputy chief of staff, who was knocked out of the April 8 special election after a…
There’s still time to sign up your student for enrichment activities this summer.Local education nonprofit The Mind Trust will provide its annual Indy Summer Learning Labs again this year with a focus of helping students bridge the summer break learning gaps.Fifty-six partner sites are preparing to serve about 5,500 children in and near Marion County as part of the five-week program, which runs from June 16 to July 18.The summer program will incorporate academic studies in the morning followed by fun afternoon activities to keep kids engaged and coming back each week.Each learning lab location follows the same curriculum in…
Silicon Valley school district educators and politicians are emphasizing how federal funding cuts will hurt vulnerable students and lead to a loss of teachers. Congressmember Sam Liccardo, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark and Campbell Union School District Superintendent Shelly Viramontez spoke out at Rosemary Elementary School April 23 against proposed funding cuts to special education and Title I funding to school districts with high percentages of low-income students. Liccardo and congressional Democrats are challenging the executive order to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education and a proposed $330 billion in cuts to key educational programs over the next 10 years. “Rosemary…
No arrests have been made in the case since it was originally opened. HICKORY, N.C. — The name Dee Dee Dawkins carries weight in the town of Hickory, North Carolina. “I call her the town’s dirty little secret,” said Stephanie Young, one of Dawson’s cousins. “They thought she was a prostitute; they had no idea she was a child.” Dawkins, just 13 years old, was lost to violence in 1992. Her case faded from headlines but never from the hearts of those who loved her. “She was raped and murdered and thrown into a river like she was a piece of…
Chreece, Indy’s only hip-hop festival, returns to Fountain Square on August 23 with headliners Smino, MAVI and Audrey Nuna. Over 70 local hip-hop artists, DJs and producers will take the stage across eight venues in the neighborhood. Tickets are on sale now. If you go 🗓️ Aug. 23📍 Fountain Square🎟️ $45 and upChreece was founded by local hip-hop artist Oreo Jones in 2015. In its 10 years, the single-day celebration has featured headliners like Talib Kweli and Curren$y, drawing hundreds to Fountain Square. “It has been a beautiful process, watching the growth and evolution of Chreece,” Jones said in a press release.…
A jury has found a Cape Cod boatbuilder guilty of raping a woman at his place of business in September 2023, according to the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office.On Wednesday, a Barnstable Superior Court jury convicted 59-year-old Barnstable resident Peter Eastman of one count of rape following a four-day trial and three hours of deliberations, the district attorney’s office said in a press release. He was originally charged with two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 and was ultimately acquitted of one count of indecent assault and battery. Eastman is the owner of Howard…
At least seven food trucks in North Philadelphia, which have already seen a decrease in business due to a recent curfew, were towed on Thursday, leaving their owners scrambling to get their businesses back on the street. Video shows an owner of one of the food trucks pleading with police not to remove her business. Philadelphia police issued tickets for all seven trucks, saying five of them were creating hazardous conditions, one was blocking a sidewalk and another was unregistered. Towed food trucks were taken to Philadelphia Parking Authority lots. The Latino Food Truck Association Nonprofit denounced the food trucks…
WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday ending federal funding to PBS and NPR due to neither entity presenting a “fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens.”The White House announced the signing on social media, saying the outlets “receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news.'”According to the order, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and other federal agencies must “cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS” and work to root out indirect sources of public financing for the news organizations. The broadcasters get roughly half a billion…