Harvard open to $500 million settlement
with Trump administration
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Harvard is now open to settling with the Trump administration. The Ivy League university is considering a $500 million deal as a way to end its months-long battle with the administration, according to the New York Times. News of the possible deal comes shortly after Columbia University agreed to a settlement as well, agreeing to pay more than $200 million for its antisemitism violation. With the Harvard settlement talks reportedly ongoing, the administration is now turning its attention to Duke, alleging the university has violated the Civil Rights Act. “Duke is being accused of sort of a reverse discrimination policy in selecting members of their law journal, their medical journal.”
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With just hours to go before Trump’s self-imposed August 1 trade deadline, the president signed executive orders to impose tariffs between 15 and 41 percent on goods from dozens of countries. The dollar index rose 0.1 percent on Friday morning, hitting a two-month high. Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar slumped to a 10-week low against its U.S. counterpart after the president announced a punishing 35 percent levy for the country.
A Navy pilot safely ejected from an F-35 jet moments before it crashed into a Fresno County cotton field in a fiery blaze Wednesday evening. The crash occurred about 6:30 p.m., not far from Naval Air Station Lemoore, the U.S. Navy said in a statement. The wreckage of the military jet burned as deputies with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, paramedics, firefighters and officers with the California Highway Patrol responded to the field north of the base. Emergency officials on the ground found the pilot with a parachute in a nearby field. A helicopter transported the pilot to a hospital for evaluation. “He is expected to be OK,”
The United States is suspending a "de minimis" exemption that allowed low-value commercial shipments to be shipped to the United States without facing tariffs, the White House said on Wednesday. Under an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, packages valued at or under $800 sent to the U.S. outside of the international postal network will now face "all applicable duties" starting on August 29. Goods shipped through the postal system will face one of two tariffs: either an "ad valorem duty" equal the effective tariff rate of the package's country origin, or, for six months, a tariff of $80 to $200 depending on the country of origin's tariff rate.
Harvard is now open to settling with the Trump administration. The Ivy League university is considering a $500 million deal as a way to end its months-long battle with the administration, according to the New York Times. News of the possible deal comes shortly after Columbia University agreed to a settlement as well, agreeing to pay more than $200 million for its antisemitism violation. With the Harvard settlement talks reportedly ongoing, the administration is now turning its attention to Duke, alleging the university has violated the Civil Rights Act. “Duke is being accused of sort of a reverse discrimination policy in selecting members of their law journal, their medical journal.”
N.C Senate Overrides 12 Governor Vetoes
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Today (Tuesday, July 29, 2025), the North Carolina Senate made history by successfully overriding 12 vetoes issued by Governor Josh Stein, the most ever overturned in a single day halting Gov. Stein's liberal agenda in its tracks. We are standing strong for common sense, parental rights, women, minors, businesses and freedom for North Carolinians. All 30 GOP senators voted for the overrides with 19 Democrat senators voting against them. Those overrides, however, must be ratified by the N.C. House. That vote may be months away. The bills overridden include measures to: Senate Bill 50: This bill would ensure that North Carolina becomes the 30th Constitutional Carry state.
Gun laws are changing in North Carolina. Two bills originally vetoed by Gov. Josh Stein have been overridden by the north Carolina legislature. There were a lot of people focused on a bill that would permit guns on the property of private and religious schools. State senators voted to override Stein's veto of House Bill 193 Tuesday, which would allow certain employees and volunteers at private and religious schools to carry concealed guns on campus, if allowed to by school leadership. Supporters say it provides protections similar to a public school, where there are school resource officers. The average time response time for law enforcement is 14 to 20 minutes,"
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that California’s law requiring background checks for people purchasing ammunition is unconstitutional, upholding a San Diego federal judge’s previous ruling that struck the law down. The ruling stems from a lawsuit brought in San Diego by a coalition of gun owners and gun-rights groups that alleged the law infringed on the Second Amendment rights of California residents. The California Attorney General’s Office argued the law was a safety measure that prevented people who shouldn’t have firearms and ammunition from obtaining them. The law was struck down twice by U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez,
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An Islamic center in Minnesota penned a gushing letter of support for a Somalian migrant convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl. Qalinle Ibrahim Dirie, 42, was convicted in May of first-degree criminal sexual conduct after he was found guilty of abducting the girl from her backyard and raping her in June 2024. Following his conviction, Dirie's local Islamic center, Al-Ihsan Islamic Center in St. Paul, submitted a heartfelt letter begging Hennepin County District Court Judge Michael Burns to consider the convicted criminal's 'character' before delivering a sentence, Alpha News reported.
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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to talk about illegal immigration, but specifically about the new president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum.
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She said, “Do not come into Mexican national ground if you’re going after the cartels.”
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Padilla: Pro-Dem Redistricting Is Different
Because It Wasn’t ‘Discriminatory’
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On Thursday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) argued that redistricting by Democrats that was favorable to them in states like Illinois, Oregon, and New Mexico is different from what Republicans are doing with redistricting in Texas because “there [are] criteria that goes into how the lines are to be drawn. You can’t do it in a discriminatory fashion.” And stated “folks are watching for” if Republicans will follow voting rights protections.
Co-host A Martínez asked, [relevant exchange begins around 2:10] “But Democrats had redistricting efforts in the past, Illinois, Oregon, New Mexico, in recent years, to their advantage. Why is this any different?”
Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) claimed Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight” that President Donald Trump’s tariffs would cause “double-digit” price increases.
Coons said, “He made a lot of promises in his campaign. He promised not to cut Medicaid, but he has. They’ve passed the so-called Big Beautiful Bill that cut Medicaid. He promised he was going to lower prices, but he hasn’t. He’s going to impose tariffs tonight, that will raise them.”
Host Michael Steele said, “Senator, we have less than a minute left, but I do want you to pick up on one thing you noted there about tomorrow, August 1st, tariff day, your thoughts?”
Kamala 'Word Salad' Harris Announces Upcoming
Book About Her Failed Campaign, and We
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Book About Her Failed Campaign, and We
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"You wrote a book? You couldn't make it through a speech without the teleprompter, but you want people to believe you wrote a book?"
Those are the words of Trump impersonator extraordinaire Shawn Farash in response to former vice president and miserably failed 2024 Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who announced on Wednesday the upcoming release of her "behind-the-scenes look" at arguably the most disastrous presidential campaign in modern American history. [Tweets, video]
"You wrote a book? You couldn't make it through a speech without the teleprompter, but you want people to believe you wrote a book?"
Those are the words of Trump impersonator extraordinaire Shawn Farash
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And UCLA is paying a 6 million penalty for supporting on campus terrorists. Seems that mandatory dismissal of complicit administrators and staff should be part of each settlement.