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Acclaimed director Steven Spielberg said he was concerned about the return of antisemitism at universities and warned against forgetting history during a speech on the University of Southern California’s campus. “We see every day how the machinery of extremism is being used on college campuses,” Spielberg said Monday, adding that “fully 50 percent of students say they have experienced some …

Students at one California school say they feel restricted by a digital ID app designed to track their time outside the classroom. According to a local report, Fresno High School rolled out the 5-Star Students app to help monitor trips outside the classroom that borrow from instructional time. Students, who are restricted to two, 7-minute bathroom trips daily, must plug …

Whoopi Goldberg called out an audience member during the live broadcast of “The View” on Tuesday for presumably using a camera to record, and told the person not to pull it out again. While discussing former President Trump’s bond payment, which was reduced to $175 million on Monday, Goldberg interrupted co-host Sunny Hostin and got up to reprimand the audience …

A Rutgers professor defended diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices on college campuses on Thursday. Harvard University held a panel featuring scholars and academics to discuss the role DEI bureaucracy plays on college campuses. “Four academics agreed it was important to protect diversity in higher education, but disagreed over whether universities’ diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives clash with academic freedom …

Comedian and late night host Stephen Colbert apologized on his show Monday after Princess Kate Middleton announced that she had cancer in a video message. Middleton, 42, was the subject of intense scrutiny online and rumors over her apparent absence from public view, telling the world Friday that she had undergone major surgery earlier this year and had been diagnosed …

Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was gone in a flash early Tuesday after a cargo ship collided with one of its pillars, snapping the structure into pieces and sending it tumbling into the water below. As rescuers scramble to find multiple people who remain missing and as the details remain unclear, experts weigh what could have possibly caused the catastrophe. …

A 15-year-old autistic boy was shot and killed in a confrontation with police in Southern California, according to a recent report. San Bernardino sheriff deputies shot and killed Ryan Gainer, a 15-year-old boy, on March 9,” ABC7 reported. “He had been acting out that afternoon and a family member called 911,” according to the outlet. BODY OF MISSING ‘EXPERIENCED’ CALIFORNIA …

NBC News leadership faced a crisis of its own making beginning last week after it brought on former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, and it looks to some critics like the inmates are running the asylum after on-air talent brazenly revolted against the hire. NBCUniversal News Group chairman Cesar Conde, who oversees NBC News, CNBC, and MSNBC, is under …

NBC News is planning to drop Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor after less than a week, according to a report on Tuesday. The report comes after the former Republican National Committee chairwoman was signed as an analyst just last Friday. What followed was a revolt by current and former staffers and unprecedented on-air rebukes of network leadership by NBC …

ke Video Comedian Kevin Hart shared on Sunday the reason why he doesn’t tell political jokes. Hart was recognized at the 25th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The prize, honoring performers who have inspired change in Hollywood’s comedy culture, was awarded to Hart for his contributions to American humor throughout his …