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Columbia President Minouche Shafik faces mounting calls to resign as anti-Israel protest grows

Anti-Israel protests on the Manhattan campus continue to grow, with about 200 demonstrators gathering on Monday and increasing calls for Columbia University President Minoush Shafik to resign. New York’s Republican delegation and the Columbia Jewish Alumni Association resign as president embattled over his handling of protests that have made headlines in recent days for anti-Semitism […]

CNN boss Mark Thompson says network faces ‘existential crisis’

CNN’s new boss says the network faces an “existential threat” due to cord-cutting and plans to eventually pivot away from cable TV and toward a subscription-based streaming model like YouTube or TikTok. Stated. “There’s a lot of things that need to be fixed at CNN,” said Mark Mark, a former New York Times and BBC […]

Volkswagen plant faces union vote as UAW aims to expand beyond Detroit

Volkswagen’s only U.S. plant on the southern border of Tennessee has become a battleground for worker representation as the United Auto Workers union seeks to expand its footprint beyond Detroit. Workers at the German automaker’s Chattanooga, Tenn., plant where VW assembles its ID.4 electric SUV will vote starting Wednesday on whether to join the UAW. […]

House rebels ignore Trump as Johnson faces ouster threat

Mike Johnson (R-LA) hoped Donald Trump could head off a brewing effort to remove him as House speaker.  But he is learning the limits of the former president’s power in an unruly and divided House where even a single Republican defection could prove fatal to his early speakership. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who is […]

Central US faces multiday severe weather threat 

Millions of Americans across the central United States could experience severe thunderstorms and tornadoes Monday night into Wednesday. Severe thunderstorms are expected to move through the central Great Plains and parts of Virginia and Maryland starting Monday night and continuing through the night, according to the National Weather Service (NWS) Storm Prediction Center. Severe thunderstorms […]

US Faces All-Time High Drug Shortage, Data Shows

The U.S. is facing its worst drug shortage since the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) started tracking them in 2001, a Thursday statement by the association reads. “During the first quarter of 2024, ASHP and our partner, the University of Utah Drug Information Service [UUDIS], tracked 323 active shortages. This is an all-time high, […]