RACE WAR:  Firing another missile at elite education, The Trump administration published new rules that would revoke tax-exempt status from any private university or school offering targeted support to Black or other minority students.    President Trump and his administration say that …

THINK FOR YOURSELF: In a growing challenge to technology in schools, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city’s public school system banned the use of artificial intelligence in elementary and middle school instruction for at least one year. The ban will …

BLUSTER BOMBS: Announcing further strikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump on his Truth Social threatened: “If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and …

RESIGNED TO IT: After clashing with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over the firings of senior military leaders in line for promotion, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, the service’s top civilian leader, resigned yesterday.   The NY Times has described the military as “rudderless” …

WASHED AWAY: Unable to identify many of the remains, Nepal has begun mass burials of the dead from last week’s flood. There is little hope of finding all the bodies in the flood rubble and some of the remains cannot be …

BLACK GOLD: The Trump administration reached a deal to take control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves, almost as much as all the proven reserves in the US, the world’s biggest oil producer.   President Trump crowed on his social …

AFTER THE FLOOD: Several hundred people are dead and as many as 1400 missing after that massive flash flood that swept through rivers bordering China and Tibet.  In Nepal, about 900 people including 500 foreign visitors … Americans among them … …

CATASTOPHIC: An enormous fragment that broke off a glacier yesterday and fell into a river between Nepal and Tibet is being blamed for the flash flood that appears to have killed hundreds of people, including Americans, and left hundreds more missing. …

TRADE WAR !!!: Canada announced retaliatory tariffs as high as 50 percent on hundreds of American products, following the collapse of trade talks that triggered punishing tariffs levied by the Trump administration.   Canada says it will collect tariffs of 50, 25, …

MAILING IT IN: The Supreme Court’s conservative majority voted to allow the administration to proceed with plans to enforce President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting as the country moves toward the mid-term elections and a lawsuit to block the order …