GOP lawmaker attacks tax-exempt status of US colleges failing to condemn Hamas' 'barbaric' attacks

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Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Jason Smith at a news conference at the House Longworth Office Building on Capitol Hill, September 27, 2023, in Washington, DC.

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Scholastic says state book bans are causing an 'impossible dilemma' for its iconic book fairs

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Scholastic Book Fair banner outside Catholic school, Queens, New York.
A Scholastic Book Fair banner outside a Catholic school in Queens, New York.

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Harvard has become the poster child for American culture wars in the 11 days since Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel. Here's what's happened.

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Supporters of Palestine gather in Harvard Yard to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge on 14 October 2023
A collection of student groups said in a statement that they "hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence."

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More than 14,000 licensed childcare centers in the US are behind on state-mandated inspections

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Toys and watering cans lie ready in a box on the grounds of a daycare center.

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Billionaire Ronald Lauder threatens to stop Penn donations unless the school takes a stronger stance against antisemitism

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Billionaire Ronald Lauder has threatened to halt donations to the University of Pennsylvania if it doesn't take a stronger stance against antisemitism.

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University of Pennsylvania 'should have moved faster' in condemning antisemitism, its president admits, days after Apollo CEO called for her resignation

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University of Pennsylvania campus in 2020.

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Israel's richest man and his wife stepped down from a Harvard board, saying their faith in the school's leadership had been 'broken' over its response to the Hamas attacks

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Supporters of Palestine gather at Harvard University to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023.
Supporters of Palestine gather at Harvard University to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023.

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Vivek Ramaswamy says it's 'not productive' for companies to blacklist Harvard students who make 'dumb' statements like blaming Israel for the Hamas attacks

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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

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Yale is citing freedom of speech amid student anger after a professor called Israel a 'murderous genocidal settler state'

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Yale Bulldogs logo during the first half of the college basketball game between the Seton Hall Pirates and Yale Bulldogs on November 14, 2021 at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ.
A Yale professor is facing calls for her ouster after calling Israel a "murderous genocidal settler state."

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Former pupils have called on a private school to apologize for hiring a former Nazi SS officer who abused students

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Nuremberg rally, Germany.

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