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Pentagon chief blocks officers from attending Ivy League schools and other top universities
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the elimination of certain Senior Service College fellowship programs at numerous elite universities, including Harvard, MIT, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, and Johns Hopkins, effective for the 2026-2027 academic year. Hegseth stated the Pentagon will no longer fund institutions that fail to develop warfighting capabilities or "undermine the very values" officers are sworn to defend, calling Ivy League schools "factories of anti-American resentment." In place of these schools, Hegseth proposed a list of new partner institutions including Liberty University, Pepperdine, and several state universities. The move raises practical concerns, as some banned schools have active military partnerships, including Carnegie Mellon's hosting of the Army's AI Integration Center and Johns Hopkins' partnership with the Space Force for officer education.
Pentagon to cut ties with top universities and think tanks | The Seattle Times
Hegseth denounced the institutions in blistering language, calling them politically liberal institutions with “wicked ideologies” that were indoctrinating U.S. service members.
Elections commissioners: No sign of voter fraud in Niagara in years | Local News
Niagara County's two election commissioners — one Democrat and one Republican — say they have no record of proven voter fraud in the county in their combined decades of experience, with neither recalling a single verified instance of a non-citizen or deceased person voting. Both commissioners cited multiple existing safeguards, including signed affidavits during voter registration, signature verification for absentee ballots, regular purging of deceased voters from rolls, and bipartisan oversight at all polling locations. Their comments come as President Trump continues to push unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud and advocates for the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship and photo ID to vote. Federal law already prohibits non-citizens from voting in federal elections, and an analysis by the American Immigration Council found that only 47 documented cases of non-citizen voting occurred out of more than a billion votes cast over the past four years.
See what Louisiana's members of Congress said about the attack on Iran - NOLA.com
Louisiana's congressional delegation largely divided along party lines following President Trump's Saturday military strikes on Iran, conducted jointly with Israel and targeting Iranian leaders and nuclear capabilities. Republican members including House Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, and Senators Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy expressed support for the strikes, citing Iran's nuclear ambitions and sponsorship of terrorism. Democratic representatives Troy Carter and Cleo Fields stopped short of condemning the attack but raised concerns about congressional authority, with Fields criticizing Trump for bypassing the War Powers Act. Iran launched a missile counterattack in response, triggering air raid warnings across Israel, the UAE, and other countries, while many lawmakers from both parties called for a congressional war powers vote.
Full interview: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Pentagon feud - CBS News
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sat down with CBS News for an exclusive interview, hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the company a supply chain risk to national security, which restricts military contractors from doing business with the AI giant. Amodei called the move "retaliatory and punitive," and he said Anthropic sought to draw "red lines" in the government's use of its technology because "we believe that crossing those lines is contrary to American values, and we wanted to stand up for American values."
Flattery is for fools: Can Euros stand up to Trump — and win? | Responsible Statecraft
In his infamous speech at last year's Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance proclaimed that the greatest threat to the continent was ...
Live updates: Trump says Iran's supreme leader killed in strikes | CNN
President Donald Trump has called for regime change following a massive US and Israeli attack, which prompted an unprecedented wave of retaliatory strikes by Iran. Follow for live updates.
Opinion: The Trump White House needs a refresher on basic math - The Salt Lake Tribune
This opinion piece, written by a Harvard mathematics instructor, argues that the Trump administration has repeatedly made numerical claims that defy basic mathematical possibility, citing examples such as a "600 percent reduction" in drug prices, Attorney General Pam Bondi's claim that fentanyl seizures saved up to 258 million American lives, and assertions of $18 trillion in new U.S. investments. The author contends these are not mere exaggerations but fundamental failures of quantitative reasoning that undermine public discourse by replacing evidence-based argument with mathematically incoherent statistics. From an educator's perspective, the piece frames numeracy as a civic responsibility, warning that when leaders abandon shared mathematical definitions and constraints, it erodes the common foundation needed for productive public debate.
President Trump just started a dangerous, pointless war against Iran
The war is not the result of deliberations or consultation. It is the impulsive decision of one man—like dictators do.
Veteran politico warns Americans to remain vigilant against Trump: "Worse is to come"
His message is to mobilize, to recognize that the wins we've already had aren't enough & that we must keep fighting.
Kristi Noem, you're right: We don't want to live like this anymore. You are breaking the law ... - Twitter
Robin Kelly (@RepRobinKelly). 13 likes 165 views. Kristi Noem, you're right: We don't want to live like this anymore. You are breaking the law and ...