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By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News 18 April 2024 Updated 5 hours ago To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, Watch: NY police arrest dozens at US college Gaza protest More than 100 students have been arrested after police cleared a camp of pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University […]
18 April 2024 Updated 59 minutes ago To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, Watch: Columbia University president answers on antisemitism At a congressional hearing, Columbia University’s president has condemned antisemitism, while defending her handling of Gaza war protests. Asked if calls for genocide of Jews were against […]
By 1944, Adams Earley was the commanding officer of the first battalion of predominantly Black women. By the war’s end she’d risen to the rank of Lt. Col., which was the highest rank a woman could legally hold at the time and made her the highest-ranking Black woman in the military.
“There’s something not right when every one of these school districts that are being called into question just happen to be headed by an African American,” he said in a call with reporters. Four Richland County lawmakers, all of whom are White, delivered a letter to McMaster on . . .
WASHINGTON – A U.S. businessman pleaded guilty today to evading his federal income taxes. Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves for the District of Columbia made the announcement. According to court documents and statements […]
Paul Dabbar, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University SIPA and Chairman and CEO of Bohr Quantum Technologies, will testify before the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on Wednesday, November 1, 2023. The hearing will examine the nexus between climate change and the intensification of […]
The 2023 Alexander Hamilton Medal will go to financial services executive George Van Amson CC’74, managing director of institutional equity sales and trading at Morgan Stanley. Van Amson is currently the head of The Americas Analyst and Associate Advising and Development Programs in Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Equity Division. The Hamilton Medal is the highest honor […]
Columbia University is dropping out of the undergraduate rankings of U.S. News & World Report. The university’s law and medical schools earlier announced that they would not participate, but the undergraduate rankings get more attention. A statement noted that much of the information conveyed in the rankings may be found in the university’s Common Data Sets, […]
Columbia University announced on Tuesday that its undergraduate schools would no longer participate in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, the first major university to refuse to supply information to the influential undergraduate guide for students and parents. Columbia said it had become concerned about the “outsized influence” the rankings played in the undergraduate admissions […]
WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 01: EMTs and paramedics load a man into an ambulance after he was rescued from being trapped inside a collapsed construction site on July 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. Five people were injured when the two-story construction site collapsed during a thunderstorm. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Source link