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Corey DeAngelis has been a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, a conservative education nonprofit group founded by former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, since 2021 (DeVos’ website says she is the former chair of the organization, and the organization’s site does not mention her as being currently involved). Asked about DeAngelis and the Continue reading

Photograph: PA/Niall Carson The former principal of Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath was “absolutely horrified” when teacher Enoch Burke interrupted a school religious service asking her to withdraw her “demand” that teachers “accept transgenderism”, the High Court has heard. Niamh McShane said she also felt “agitated” and “hunted” when Mr Burke approached her at Continue reading

Ellen DeGeneres’s characteristics before 2020 were well known: dancing fiend, prankster, lesbian, comedian. She ended every episode of her popular daytime talk show, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” asking her audience to be kind to one another, so when reports alleged a toxic work environment on set, as well as allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct Continue reading

Multiple people were detained and a criminal case has been opened in northern Switzerland after a person died by assisted suicide Monday, according to police in the town of Schaffhausen. “Several persons” were taken into custody on suspicion of “incitement and aiding and abetting suicide,” Schaffhausen police said. The assisted suicide was carried out using Continue reading

Democrat-defector Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., said he won’t endorse Vice President Harris in the presidential election after she revealed her support for doing away with the filibuster to pass abortion laws. DEMS LOOK TO FORCE VOTES ON EMERGENCY ABORTION AS ABORTION PILL DEATHS MAKE HEADLINES Manchin told Fox News, “I’m not endorsing her,” stressing the Continue reading

Caroline Ellison, the former girlfriend, employee and co-conspirator of convicted FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, was sentenced to 24 months in prison on Tuesday for her role in defrauding investors and customers of the cryptocurrency platform ahead of its multibillion-dollar collapse. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan handed Ellison the two-year term behind bars, along Continue reading

School districts, county offices of education and charter schools in California will now be required to limit or ban the usage of smartphones in schools under a new state law after California Gov. The new law requires schools to develop and put in place a plan to restrict or even ban cellphone usage in schools Continue reading

The U.S. Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa, alleging that the financial services behemoth uses its size and dominance to stifle competition in the debit card market NEW YORK — The U.S. Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa, alleging that the financial services behemoth uses its size and dominance Continue reading

Go to newsletter preferences Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Student protests are escalating there and other college campuses over the Israel-Gaza war and schools’ investments in Israeli entities, with demonstrators on Tuesday breaking into a Columbia campus building and occupying it. Continue reading

Go to newsletter preferences Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read preview Tesla is finally being forced to reckon with a slowdown in electric-vehicle demand, and CEO Elon Musk’s tactics are likely to look different than his peers’ in the automotive industry. Continue reading