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Tufts University announced on Wednesday that it is not going to renew its contract with the Confucius Institute after it expires in September this year. The decision was made in response to a 13-week long protest against the controversial educational program. The Confucius Institute (CI) is a nonprofit educational collaboration between Tufts and Beijing Normal […]

France imposed a month-long lockdown on Paris and parts of the north after a faltering vaccine rollout and spread of highly contagious CCP virus variants forced President Emmanuel Macron to shift course. France reported 35,000 new cases on Thursday and there were more COVID-19 patients in intensive care in Paris than at the peak of

A school district from New Jersey has paid $325,000 to a local teacher who said she was ordered to digitally erase a pro-Donald Trump logo from a student’s T-Shirt in a yearbook picture. The settlement was approved on Thursday by the Wall Township school board, according to NJ Advance Media. The teacher, Susan Parsons, retired from

Three European countries on Thursday said they would hold off on resuming usage of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine even after the bloc’s drug regulator said the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the negative side effects and cleared it for use. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, in separate statements, said they would wait on whether to decide if

The first talks between the U.S. and China under Biden kicked off with a bang. Top U.S. diplomats criticized the Chinese Communist Party for its attacks on human rights, with Chinese officials firing back. Will the regime change its ways? A top Biden official says they’ll use more aggressive messaging to deter migrants. But Republicans

Michael Spavor, one of the two Canadians who have been arbitrarily detained for over two years in China, was tried in court Friday but no verdict was announced. In a statement posted on its website, the Intermediate People’s Court of Dandong in Liaoning Province said a closed-door hearing was held for  Spavor on March 19 on charges

Commentary President Biden and others who would stake the future of modern civilization on wind and solar technologies are ignoring former environmental activists who have now soured on so-called green energy. As better-informed people increasingly turn to responsible use of fossil fuels and nuclear power, political leaders continue to pursue a false “green” promise. In Washington,

A federal judge this week agreed to requested redactions in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, ex-girlfriend to the late sex offender and accused sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. Both government prosecutors and Maxwell’s lawyers asked for redactions because of concerns that certain information was too “sensitive or confidential,” U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan, an Obama nominee, wrote in

A priest who presided over an inaugural Mass for President Joe Biden is under investigation, according to a statement from Santa Clara University this week. The university confirmed that the school’s president, Father Kevin O’Brien, is being investigated for “exhibited behaviors in adult settings, consisting primarily of conversations, which may be inconsistent with established Jesuit protocols

Commentary “We hold these truths to be self-evident…” So begins one of the most pivotal pronouncements in the advancement of human liberty. With those words, Thomas Jefferson threw down a gauntlet at the feet of not just the king of England, but also at Parliament and the entire entrenched elite who, up until then, had