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Lithuanian police officers near the home of Leonid Volkov, a close associate of Aleksei A. Navalny who was assaulted with a hammer last month in Vilnius.
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said that President Joe Biden “strongly urged Israel to avoid any response” to Iran’s attack on Israel, but “the fact that both Israel and Iran are downplaying” Israel’s response
The post Kaine: Things Seem to Be De-Escalating After Israel Launched Strike Biden Urged Them Not to appeared first on Breitbart.
A woman walks past a mural showing Iranian missiles in Tehran on Friday. Iranian officials downplayed the explosions in Isfahan, even suggesting that Israel may not have been responsible.
Former President Donald Trump's social media platform, Truth Social, issued a statement after Florida-based marketing firm Citadel Securities slammed Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes as being a "proverbial loser."
The post Trump’s Truth Social Responds to Attack from Citadel Securities: ‘World Famous for Screwing Over Everyday Retail Investors’ appeared first on Breitbart.
An Israeli air force F-15 warplane landing at an air base in central Israel on Monday.
Dengue fever cases have topped 5.2 million in the Americas, and a United Nations health agency is calling it an "emergency situation."
The post Panamerican Health Officials: ‘Breakbone’ Dengue Fever Cases Reach Emergency Levels appeared first on Breitbart.
The Biden administration has announced restrictions on oil and gas leasing on over 13 million acres of an Alaskan petroleum reserve to conserve land valuable to the "Alaska Native people" and "important fish and wildlife," as Republican lawmakers protest the "illegal" move.
The post Biden Administration Announces Anti-Oil Restrictions on 13 Million Acres of Alaskan Petroleum Land appeared first on Breitbart.
Joe Biden's DHS released a convicted murderer into the United States after he lied to Border Patrol agents about his prior criminal record.
The post Biden’s Border Honor System Frees Illegal Alien Convicted Killer into U.S. appeared first on Breitbart.
A spending bill backed by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) includes hundreds of millions of dollars in American taxpayer money for border patrol agents in Ukraine as illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border remains at record levels.
The post Mike Johnson’s Spending Bill Includes $300M for Border Patrol — in Ukraine appeared first on Breitbart.
Researchers found an "abrupt increase" in the number of young people undergoing sterilization procedures following the Dobbs decision.
The post Study: More Young People Are Choosing Permanent Sterilization appeared first on Breitbart.
A badly mangled body discovered after being struck by a train on Tuesday near Del Rio, Texas, has been identified as an active-duty airman assigned to Laughlin Air Force Base. The body was initially discovered in the early morning hours after a train conductor made a 911 call to report striking a person on the track. Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to the area just west of Del Rio, approximately 20 miles from the airbase.
The post Body Found near Border in Texas Identified as U.S. Airman appeared first on Breitbart.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, center, and Evan Ryan, his wife, at the Group of 7 meeting on Capri in Italy. The group has grown more active and ambitious in recent years
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Sen. Eric Schmitt and Senate Republicans demanded answers about a proposed Biden administration ESG rule for government contractors.
The post Exclusive — Sen. Eric Schmitt, Senate Republicans Demand Answers on ESG for Government Contractors Rule appeared first on Breitbart.
A surge of cheap solar panels from China is posing problems for American manufacturers and the Biden administration’s plans to jumpstart U.S. manufacturing.
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FBI director Chris Wray said at a security conference on Thursday that China’s legion of state-sponsored hackers “considers every sector that makes our society run as fair game in its bid to dominate on the world stage.”
The post FBI Director: China Considers Vital U.S. Infrastructure ‘Fair Game’ for Cyberattacks appeared first on Breitbart.
The Republican National Committee (RNC), partnered with the Trump campaign, is launching a massive election integrity program.
The post Trump Campaign and RNC Reveal Massive Election Integrity Program appeared first on Breitbart.
Fast food prices in California jumped during the six-month period before the Democrat-run state mandated a $20 minimum wage for the industry.
The post Study: Democrat-Run California’s Fast Food Prices Jumped Seven Percent Prior to $20 Minimum Wage appeared first on Breitbart.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) announced he would join Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
The post Paul Gosar Is Third Republican to Join Motion to Vacate Speaker Mike Johnson appeared first on Breitbart.
Donald Trump continued to rip Justice Merchan for implementing an "unconstitutional" gag order that prevents him from "telling the truth."
The post Trial Day 4 — Donald Trump Slams Judge’s Gag Order: ‘They Can Say Anything They Want’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Former Minnesota Reform Party Gov. Jesse Ventura said Thursday on CNN's "OutFront" that he could beat bothident Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical match-up.
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Soldiers of Ukraine’s 32nd Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkiv region this month.
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In a stunning historical development, Democrats seized upon a Republican surrender to take control of the agenda of the House floor.
The post Mike Johnson Surrenders: Democrats Seize Control of House Floor appeared first on Breitbart.
State of the Union: Both Israel’s strike and Iran’s reaction to it have been much more tempered than many expected.
Israel carried out a retaliatory strike against Iran Friday in the early morning hours.
Unnamed Israeli defense officials, as well as a number of Iranian officials, confirmed the strike on Iran. Iranian officials claim that Israel used small exploding drones to carry out the attack—drones potentially launched within Iran’s borders. The strike, Israel’s first action against Iran since the Iranian attack last weekend, reportedly hit an Iranian military base in Isfahan, the city where Iran does a large amount of its missile development and production.
After Iran launched a strike against Israel over the weekend in response to a prior Israeli strike on an Iranian diplomatic installation in Damascus, Iranian officials claimed that they viewed the matter as concluded. Nevertheless, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi promised that “the tiniest act of aggression” against Iran in the future would provoke a response. Yet both Israel’s strike and Iran’s reaction to it have been much more tempered than many expected.
While the Biden administration has admitted Israel tipped off the U.S. moments before the strike, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said America “has not been involved in any offensive operations.”
The post Israel Launches Small Strike on Iran appeared first on The American Conservative.
The Biden administration on Friday formally endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) scheme to fund Ukraine's border defense.
The post Joe Biden Formally Endorses Speaker Mike Johnson’s Ukraine Funding Scheme appeared first on Breitbart.
Mourners in Tehran carried the coffin of Brig. Gen. Sayyed Razi Mousavi, a senior adviser to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps who was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria in 2023.
A poster depicting missiles in Tehran on Thursday.
This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows damage on the roof of an Iranian military workshop, center, after a drone attack in Isfahan, Iran, on Feb. 2.
State of the Union: Harvard’s Emma Dench is correct about the graduate job market.
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Emma Dench, niece of Dame Judi, recently said in an interview with the student newspaper the Harvard Crimson that students should “pursue graduate degrees out of passion for their research rather than a desire for professorship.” To seek a higher-education degree with the aim of being a professor is “too narrow a view,” Dench said, adding, somewhat as an afterthought, that one should be “realistic” about post-education job prospects.
“Over GSAS as a whole, about pretty much 50 percent of our graduates are going to not end up in academia,” she said. “And they’re going to do everything else and there’s a whole lot of brilliant options that are available to them.”
The interview is very interesting and is highly recommended. She is, at the time of writing this, being ferociously “dragged” (to use the parlance of our times) all over social media—which is absurd, because this is surely not the batty-est thing she has ever said. (She once declared that she hates the Romans because they were “violent, sexist, racist, arrogant, and not very nice to anybody who got in their way”—but that she also loves to hate the Romans.)
Regardless, turgid though her managerial expression may be, she actually makes a valid point. In fact, what she did not explicitly say is far more notable than what she did. The subtextual is, as always, far more interesting than the overt.
There are hundreds of thousands of words written on the state of the discipline of history in higher ed. Long story short, it is not good. The field became bloated as the job market shrank. Tenure is down; scholarship has become insufferable, dogmatic, unreadable, and unmarketable to Johnny Public; funding is ideological, and research potential is in perpetual decline. Most importantly, the field’s perception has declined: A significant portion of the population does not view history as a neutral field, much less job-worthy, and they do have a point. Just take note of the historical research coming out of academic presses. Looking beyond history, other humanities and social sciences are far worse; they also skew overwhelmingly towards the left, alienating a significant chunk of those who might otherwise prefer to fund and support academic research.
Historically, both humanities and history were domains of the elite purely because they could afford the time and money to pursue their academic and artistic interests without actually worrying about the next time they had to get food on the table. One can also argue that their studies allowed them to have the usual elite detachment from the subject matter, given that independent wealth often guards one from external influences and conditioned thought processes.
But more than that, whether or not to go into higher education is a question of pure mathematics and economics. Talent cannot be mass-produced in some fields; nor, if it could be, would the job market keep up with the supply. It is one thing, for example, to have hundreds of thousands of engineers or mechanics. It is another to have hundreds of thousands of poets and historians. You cannot possibly have thousands of Lords Byron or Herbert Butterfields—and churning out thousands of writers or historians doesn’t automatically mean there will be thousands of jobs. There is a reason that a specific portion of the academy was always hierarchical, and that, from Thucydides to A.J.P. Taylor, the discipline of history itself was always considered a higher calling compared to others.
Unfortunately, our society and current culture does not allow one to speak hard truths, regardless of how common sense they are. Of course Dench, dean at Harvard, scholar from Oxford, knows all the above—but is not allowed to say it out loud. What she meant, but perhaps cannot say, is not that one should do something because they love it, but that some fields are only for those who can afford them. The love is secondary and stems from the fact that it can be pursued without worry, fear, or desperation.
Here are the hard facts: People should not pursue a PhD (especially in history, social sciences, or humanities) unless they are independently wealthy or have an inheritance, a full scholarship for doctoral research in a field which has a steady demand, or have a job lined up somewhere—preferably all three together.
This advice may not sound appealing to generations who grew up with the motto that you can be whatever you want, if only you wish for it. But it might save them from future debt and disappointment.
The post Friends Don’t Let Friends Get PhDs in Humanities appeared first on The American Conservative.
To Narendra Modi’s legions of supporters, he is a magnetic figure and a powerful orator, with an image as a tireless, incorruptible worker for India.
Al Roker and his production company have been sued by a producer who alleges he was fired after objecting to the company's failure to implement diversity initiatives for an upcoming PBS animated show.
The post Lawsuit Claims Al Roker ‘Circumvented’ DEI Quotas on PBS Kids Show ‘Weather Hunters,’ Fired Producer for Objecting appeared first on Breitbart.
CBS has announced that Stephen Colbert will host his 'Late Night' show from Chicago during the Democrat National Convention.
The post Stephen Colbert to Broadcast ‘Late Show’ from Chicago During Democratic National Convention appeared first on Breitbart.
A new trial aims to seek accountability for the deadly collapse of Renaissance Residence, near the Turkish city of Antakya, during an earthquake last year.
An Indian National Congress rally in Mandya, India, on Wednesday. The party governed India for decades, but those days are long gone.
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