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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), pressed Columbia University’s president about pro-Hamas professors on campus during a congressional hearing Wednesday. Stefanik, a senior member of the Education and the Workforce Committee, had numerous rounds in which she attacked the Columbia president for antisemitism on campus under her watch. “I’m talking about the faculty members who are supporting terror,” Rep. Stefanik said while …

NPR is under fire again, this time for punishing the veteran editor who took his concerns public about the liberal takeover of its newsroom. The organization’s in-house media correspondent David Folkenflik reported Tuesday that Uri Berliner, NPR’s senior business editor who wrote the bombshell essay about his employer’s bias, was placed on a five-day suspension without pay that began Friday. …

A California club is fighting to get its cross back on what they say is their private property after an atheist group campaigned for it to be removed. Fifty years ago, a devout Christian asked the Albany Lions Club to build and maintain a large lighted steel and plexiglass cross on his private land, to be lit during the Christmas …

Former NBC star Katie Couric opened up on the “sexist attitude” she received from her “Today” colleague Bryant Gumbel, particularly about her going on maternity leave. On Sunday’s installment of the “Club Random” podcast, host Bill Maher spoke fondly of his “friend” Gumbel, who he described as a “guy’s guy.” “He is a guy’s guy. He is a guy’s guy, …

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey vowed to keep fighting to keep biological males out of girls’ sports after a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday to overturn a state transgender sports ban because it “violated the Equal Protection Clause and Title IX.” The 2-1 ruling Tuesday from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocks a West Virginia law, signed …

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass pleaded with “the most fortunate” to help fund housing for the homeless as part of a new strategy to tackle the crisis during her State of the City address on Monday. “We will not hide people but what we will do is house people,” the Democratic leader touted as she began her remarks on the …

A California school board president who received death threats after the district banned the display of banners other than the American or California state flag has been ordered to pay legal fees to one member of the community. Trustees representing the Sunol Glen School Unified School District in the East Bay, which serves 270 K-8 students, voted Sept. 12 on …

Parents groups sounded off on a new medical study which found fertility blockers could cause long-term fertility and health problems in boys. The study from the Mayo Clinic, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, analyzed more than 130,000 sperm cells from male children with gender dysphoria. The researchers examined the testicular cells of boys who had been on puberty blockers …

Denver Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston conceded there would be “shared sacrifice” to reach the sanctuary city’s goal of being a “welcoming” place for illegal immigrants. The mayor’s remarks came during a CNBC interview for its “Cities of Success” series that aired on April 11 and was originally filmed in February. Around 40,000 migrants have arrived in Denver since last year, …

A Pentagon spokesperson was pressed on how the Biden administration will react if Israel responds to Iran’s unprecedented direct assault on “America’s Newsroom” on Tuesday. Iran launched more than 300 missiles and drones from its own territory at Israel on Saturday, an attack that Israel claims was largely beaten back by its sophisticated defenses and the help of allies in …