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Washington Post
3 days ago
- General
- Washington Post
Hungary's leader came for my university. Now Trump is coming for Harvard.
Michael Ignatieff, a Canadian historian, was president and rector of Central European University from 2016 to 2021. The Trump administration's attacks on Harvard University and higher education are the most serious assault on academic freedom in American history. Nothing compares to it: not the clampdown on free speech during World War I, not Sen. Joseph McCarthy's harassment of professors in the 1950s. The administration has demanded control over hiring and curriculum, canceled billions in federal research funding, and, most recently, wants to annul the university's ability to accept foreign students.
CNN
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
CNN to air George Clooney's ‘Good Night, and Good Luck' Broadway play live on June 7
CNN will exclusively televise actor George Clooney's record-breaking Broadway show 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' on Saturday, June 7, the network announced Thursday. The limited-run play's penultimate performance from the Winter Garden Theatre in New York will air live on CNN and CNN International and stream on at 7 p.m. ET. 'This announcement marks a historic Broadway first: never before has a live play ever been televised,' the network said in a news release. The show is an adaptation of the 2005 movie Clooney directed of the same name and is based on veteran journalist Edward R. Murrow's work and tension with Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare of the 1950s. Discussing the play in a previous interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Clooney stressed the importance of journalism in preserving democracy, citing the veteran journalist's words. 'It doesn't matter what political bend you are on – when you hear things like, you know, 'We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and a conviction depends on evidence and due process of law, and we will not walk in fear of one another. We won't be driven by fear into an age of unreason,' I think those are extraordinarily powerful words for who we are at our best,' Clooney said.
CNN
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
CNN to air George Clooney's ‘Good Night, and Good Luck' Broadway play live on June 7
CNN will exclusively televise actor George Clooney's record-breaking Broadway show 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' on Saturday, June 7, the network announced Thursday. The limited-run play's penultimate performance from the Winter Garden Theatre in New York will air live on CNN and CNN International and stream on at 7 p.m. ET. 'This announcement marks a historic Broadway first: never before has a live play ever been televised,' the network said in a news release. The show is an adaptation of the 2005 movie Clooney directed of the same name and is based on veteran journalist Edward R. Murrow's work and tension with Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare of the 1950s. Discussing the play in a previous interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Clooney stressed the importance of journalism in preserving democracy, citing the veteran journalist's words. 'It doesn't matter what political bend you are on – when you hear things like, you know, 'We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and a conviction depends on evidence and due process of law, and we will not walk in fear of one another. We won't be driven by fear into an age of unreason,' I think those are extraordinarily powerful words for who we are at our best,' Clooney said.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
On This Day, April 22: Zacarias Moussaoui pleads guilty to Sept. 11, 2001, attacks
April 22 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1500, explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral arrived in South America, claiming what would later be known as Brazil for Portugal. In 1889, about 20,000 homesteaders massed along the border of the Oklahoma Territory, awaiting the signal to start the Oklahoma land rush. In 1914, U.S. forces took control of the Mexican port city of Veracruz during the fighting of the Mexican Revolution. In 1915, during World War I, German forces became the first to use poison gas on the Western Front during the Second Battle of Ypres. In 1954, the Army-McCarthy hearings began in which Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., accused the Army go going soft on communism, while the Army said it was pressured to give a speedy commission to a McCarthy aide. In 1970, Earth Day was first observed. In 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke walked and rode on the surface of the moon for 7 hours, 23 minutes. Young, whose career with NASA began in 1962, would spend the next four decades as an astronaut, retiring in 2004 at the age of 74. In 1985, Jose Sarney was sworn in as Brazil's first civilian president in 21 years. In 1992, more than 200 people died when a gas leak caused sewers in Guadalajara, Mexico, to explode. In 1993, the Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in Washington, D.C. In 1994, Richard Nixon, the 37th U.S. president and the only one to resign from the office, died four days after having a stroke. He was 81. In 1997, a 126-day standoff at the Japanese Embassy in Lima ended after Peruvian commandos stormed the building and freed 72 hostages held by the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. All 14 rebels were killed. In 2004, former NFL star Pat Tillman, who turned down a lucrative contract with the Arizona Cardinals to join the U.S. Army Rangers, was killed in Afghanistan. The U.S. military said later he was a victim of friendly fire. In 2005, Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man charged in the United States in connection with the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. In 2006, Iraq's Parliament ratified the selection of Nouri al-Maliki as prime minister, ending a four-month political deadlock. In 2016, world leaders from 175 countries gathered in New York on Earth Day to sign the Paris Agreement, the first international accord that outlines steps to combat climate change and lower carbon levels by 2100. In 2020, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to temporarily close U.S. borders to migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yahoo
10-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Inside the DHS task force scouring foreign students' social media
A recently created Department of Homeland Security task force is using data analytic tools to scour the social media histories of the estimated 1.5 million foreign students studying in the United States for potential grounds to revoke their visas, three sources familiar with the operation told NBC News. They said records are also being searched for charges or criminal convictions of the student visa holders. DHS officials also announced Wednesday that the department would begin considering what it deems to be antisemitic activity on social media and 'physical harassment of Jewish individuals' as grounds to revoke or deny immigration benefits. 'This will immediately affect aliens applying for lawful permanent resident status, foreign students and aliens affiliated with educational institutions linked to antisemitic activity,' the announcement said. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, said the new policy was a return to 'McCarthyism,' referring to the tactics used to identify alleged communists in the Cold War that violated privacy rights. 'The spirit of Joseph McCarthy is alive and well in the Trump administration, which has spent months dishonestly mischaracterizing legitimate criticism of the Israeli government's war crimes in Gaza as antisemitic, pursuing witch hunts into American colleges, and threatening the free speech rights of immigrants,' CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said in a statement Wednesday. The data analytic tools now being used to scour social media were enhanced during the Biden administration, a former Biden administration DHS official said. But to use them to search social media of nonviolent students, the official said, is different from what the previous administration intended. 'We were not targeting political activity or speech. We would only review them if they were inciting violence,' the former Biden administration official said. The tools the DHS task force is using are run by Customs and Border Protection's National Targeting Center and National Vetting Center, both of which are typically tasked with using software and data to keep potential security threats from entering the United States. Any potential red flags about a student are shared with Citizenship and Immigration Services, which in turn asks the State Department to make a determination about whether the student's visa should be revoked. If the State Department decides it should be revoked, the task force informs Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in local field offices to arrest and deport the student, the sources said. Before the task force was created, much of the investigative work would have been done at the field office level and shared with local ICE officers, the sources said. Now, according to the sources, agents are taking orders from people they may not know from the task force in Washington about whom to arrest without clear guidance about why they are being targeted. Over the last month, nearly 300 international students have been stripped of their visas, according to media reports and universities that have reviewed their systems. ICE, which is part of DHS, runs the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, which oversees foreign students on visas to study at U.S. academic institutions. ICE Chief of Staff Jon Feere had been a vocal critic of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program before he joined the Trump administration this year. Feere wrote dozens of articles for the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that advocates for reduced immigration into the United States, many of which pointed to cases of fraud he alleged was rampant in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. 'Blatant, widespread fraud has become a central part of America's foreign student program, and the government agencies responsible for putting an end to it have been asleep at the wheel for far too long,' Feere said in an article he published with the Center for Immigration Studies in August. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement: 'There is no room in the United States for the rest of the world's terrorist sympathizers, and we are under no obligation to admit them or let them stay here. Secretary [Kristi] Noem has made it clear that anyone who thinks they can come to America and hide behind the First Amendment to advocate for anti-Semitic violence and terrorism — think again. You are not welcome here.' This article was originally published on
