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Indian academics at a Texas university conspired to exclude an American job-seeker from a tenured job, even to the point of labelling the Asian-American candidate as “white,” says a lawsuit by the Asian-American candidate named Sean Wang. The lawsuit described the alleged anti-American discrimination against Wang at Southern Methodist University: Since Hemang Desai (Indian-origin) became a full professor at SMU in 2006, its Accounting Department has had a systematic pattern of discrimination in tenure decisions. Among candidates of Indian descent who meet SMU’s stated productivity standard of at least four top-tier publications, 100% (2 of 2) were tenured: Neil Bhattacharya in 2008…
An Israeli settler has assaulted a farmer amid rising violence in the occupied territory, its government has said Footage has been published online purporting to show an assault by an Israeli settler against a Palestinian farmer in the occupied West Bank, in one of the latest alleged attacks targeting Palestinian civilians.The video, posted by the media office of the Palestinian government on Saturday, shows a blindfolded man on his knees in a field, and later lying on the ground surrounded by armed men. An accompanying caption alleges the farmer was “abducted and restrained” by the settler.The footage emerged amid a…
Decades of economic decline have brought this country to a breaking point. The vast majority of the population is barely scraping by from month to month as prices continue to rise, thousands of stores and restaurants close, foreclosures spike to alarming levels and the middle class continues to shrink. Now the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz threatens to make things a whole lot worse, and a lot of people are justifiably concerned about what this will mean for their futures. Our young adults are being hit particularly hard. If you purchased a home 20 or 30 years ago, you…
“Home is the sailor, home from the sea.” That refrain from Robert Louis Stevenson will be joyfully repeated right across America in coming days after the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the world’s largest aircraft carrier, returned home to Virginia on Saturday after an 11-month foreign deployment, the longest since the Vietnam War. During its overseas journey the mighty vessel supported the U.S. war with Iran and the capture of Nicolás Maduro as he was ousted as Venezuela’s president. AP reports the most advanced U.S. warship and two accompanying destroyers were secured alongside at Naval Station Norfolk with about 5,000…
During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that the argument that Islamophobia is just as big of a problem as antisemitism is nonsense and noted that Jewish people have hidden their identity due to fears for their safety, “but the keffiyeh? You can wear that anywhere.” While talking about antisemitism, Maher said, “Now, there are absolutely horrible things said about Muslims, too. That should also be, of course, roundly condemned, like Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) saying, ‘If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.’…
You have been warned. The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Sunday declared an ever broadening Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Uganda a global health emergency. More than than 300 suspected cases have been reported and 88 deaths. The agency said the outbreak in DR Congo’s eastern Ituri province, does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency – but does not rule out that possible development, the BBC reports. The current strain of Ebola is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, the health agency said, for which there are no approved drugs or vaccines. Early symptoms…
During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that “There is a frothing anxiousness for the literal extermination of” Jews, but Democrats are indulging their “brainwashed by TikTok constituents” rather than combating antisemitism and “All the people likely running for president now on the Democratic side want it known they don’t take money from AIPAC, the Israeli lobby, a stance which gives permission to actual antisemites to say, see? We’re right about Israel, that’s dirty money from a dirty country.” Maher began by saying, “Now it’s everyone’s right in a free country to…
The Labour leader wants to step down “in a dignified way,” journalist Dan Hodges wrote UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is considering resigning amid a deepening political crisis in the ruling Labour Party, according to Daily Mail journalist Dan Hodges.Starmer became prime minister after leading Labour to a landslide victory in the 2024 general election. Less than two years later, however, his government is facing falling approval ratings, internal divisions, and growing pressure following the party’s poor performance in recent local elections.In a column published on Saturday, Hodges cited an unnamed cabinet minister as saying that Starmer “understands the political…
When people think about settling a parent’s estate, they usually think about selling the house and distributing what’s in their bank and investment accounts, not about what’s in the basement, the garage, the storage unit, or the boxes tucked in closets under the stairs. But all of that stuff has to go somewhere. Some of it may be valuable. Some may be sentimental. Some may be a tax issue. And some may become an issue between you and your own children, who don’t appreciate the value (sentimental or otherwise) of grandma’s prized Limoges china that really shouldn’t go in the…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – At least four people, including three near Moscow, died in one of the largest Ukrainian overnight attacks against Russia since the start of the war, according to Russian local authorities. A woman was killed after a drone hit her home in Khimki, a city just northwest of Moscow, and two men died in the village of Pogorelki 10 km (6 miles) north of the capital, according to local Gov. Andrei Vorobyev. In social media updates, Vorobyev said Ukrainian drones had also damaged unspecified “infrastructure” and several high-rises. In Moscow itself, at least 12 people were wounded…