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#War #Leadership #Underestimation
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Underestimating the enemy is a dangerous path for Trump to follow
Russia's leader Vladimir Putin underestimated the Ukrainians in 2022. Adolf Hitler underestimated the Slavs in 1941. The latest addition to the list may be Donald Trump, who appears to have underestimated the Iranians in 2026.
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#DigitalEquality #AccessForAll #TechAccessibility
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Participation in society shouldn't require a smartphone -- America needs offline accessibility
As businesses and governments digitize access to essential services, they quietly bind our participation in daily life to screens, undermining equality and autonomy.
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#AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #HigherEducation
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Red-state speech laws pose an existential threat to academic freedom
In 2022, Florida's Stop WOKE Act sharply restricted classroom discussion of race and gender. In defending the law, state officials argued that there is no "purported right to academic freedom," that university curricula and instruction are "government speech," and that by regulating it, the state "has simply chosen to regulate its own speech.
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#TransgenderRights #WomensSports #Equality
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Democrats block SAVE America Act amendment to bar transgender athletes in women's sports
Senate Democrats voted Saturday to defeat a Republican-sponsored amendment to the SAVE America Act that would prohibit transgender athletes from participating in girls' or women's sports, an issue that Republicans plan to play up in this year's midterm elections.
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#GenerativeAI #CriticalThinking #HigherEducation
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Artificial intelligence in the classroom is undercutting students' critical thinking
Universities are rushing head‑first into the generative AI era. Across campuses, chatbots like ChatGPT have become so common that many instructors now assume students are already using them, and some professors have begun requiring such use.
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#Harvard #Antisemitism #CivilRights
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Trump administration accuses Harvard of failing to protect Jewish students in latest lawsuit
The Trump administration filed a lawsuit against Harvard University on Friday for failing to protect Jewish students since the Israel-Gaza War broke out more than two years ago.
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#ClimateAction #EnvironmentalRegulation #CleanAirAct
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New York AG sues to uphold national emissions rules
ALBANY, N. Y. (NEXSTAR) -- New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 40 states, counties, cities, and state agencies sued on Thursday to stop the federal government from erasing climate change regulations.
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#ArtificialIntelligence #MilitaryTechnology #FutureOfWarfare
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Operation Epic Fury: The promises and perils of AI warfare
It has been more than a decade since artificial intelligence and military experts were calling AI and autonomous weaponry "the third revolution in warfare," after gunpowder and nuclear weapons.
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#USPolitics #WarInIran #MediaCoverage
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Hegseth hammers European allies, media in staunch Trump defense over Iran war
Morning Report is The Hill's a. m. newsletter. Subscribe here.
In today's issue:
▪ Hegseth goes after allies, media
▪ Trump says no boots on ground in Iran
▪ SAVE America Act votes coming
▪ Education Department portfolio moves
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken on the role of top attack dog defending President Trump while he oversees the war in Iran.
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#EducationPolicy #StudentLoans #GovernmentReform
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Trump's push to abolish the Education Department reaches student loan portfolio
One year after President Trump signed an executive order calling for the shuttering of the Education Department, the agency has taken its biggest step yet toward self-elimination.
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#AnimalTesting #GovernmentAccountability #WastefulSpending
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'Rogue employee' at HHS changed voicemail to Domino's pizza recording
Callers hoping to voice complaints about federal animal testing with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) earlier this week instead reached what sounded like the voicemail for a popular pizza chain after a "rogue" staffer changed the phone's outgoing message.
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#JusticeOConnor #SupremeCourt #CivicsEducation
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'Embodied the American dream': Sandra Day O'Connor remembered at Supreme Court
The late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's clerks and top Justice Department officials gathered at the Supreme Court on Thursday to pay tribute to her as a barrier-breaking, tireless advocate for civics and those around her at a formal memorial.
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#DHS #MullinNomination #Politics
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Takeaways from Mullin's testy DHS confirmation hearing
Morning Report is The Hill's a. m. newsletter. Subscribe here.
In today's issue:
▪ Mullin's confirmation hearing
▪ US tries to limit economic impact of war
▪ Japanese prime minister visiting DC
▪ Chavez celebrations canceled
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#InternationalRelations #USPolitics #IranConflict
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The Memo: Trump fumes as foreign leaders show new willingness to defy him
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has none of President Trump's penchant for controversy or headline-grabbing language -- but these days, he's putting emphatic distance between Berlin and Washington all the same.
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#CancerSupport #Community #MentalHealth
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867-5309: Famous '80s song phone number now directs to cancer support line
It likely won't be hard to remember the new phone number for a cancer support line: CSC-867-5309.
The seven digits, made famous by the 1981 Tommy Tutone hit, "867-5309/Jenny," now directs callers to the nonprofit organization, the Cancer Support Community (CSC), which provides information, support and advice from trained specialists to people affected by cancer.
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#WorldCentralKitchen #FoodRelief #GovernmentShutdown
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José Andrés's World Central Kitchen says it's providing TSA workers with meals amid DHS shutdown
World Central Kitchen (WCK) has provided over 8,000 free meals to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers amid a partial government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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#JewishSafety #Antisemitism #HomelandSecurity
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Will Markwayne Mullin do a better job of keeping synagogues safe at DHS?
As the American Jewish community continues to reel from the near massacre of Jewish preschool children last week at Temple Israel, senators will hold a confirmation hearing today for Sen.
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#IranConflict #CongressionalHearings #NationalSecurity
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Gabbard under spotlight facing questions on Iran
Morning Report is The Hill's a. m. newsletter. Subscribe here.
In today's issue:
▪ Intel officials testify before Congress
▪ Mullin appears for confirmation hearing
▪ SAVE America Act debate starts
▪ Pritzker's power
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard will be in the hot seat Wednesday when she testifies on Capitol Hill just a day after one of her top lieutenants resigned in protest of the war in Iran.
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#Somaliland #Sovereignty #InternationalRelations
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Somaliland is a functioning state. Treat it that way.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Dec. 26 that Israel would recognize the Republic of Somaliland as a sovereign nation, a few months short of the 35th anniversary of its declaration of independence from Somalia in May 1991.
