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Lawsuits against Donald Trump over the U.S. Capitol riot can move forward, a federal appeals court ruled on December 1, rejecting the former president’s bid to dismiss the cases accusing him of inciting the violent mob on January 6, 2021. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit court knocked down Trump’s sweeping claims that presidential immunity shields him from liability in the lawsuits brought by Democratic lawmakers and police officers. But the three-judge panel said the 2024 Republican presidential primary frontrunner can continue to fight, as the cases proceed, to try to prove that his actions were...

Billionaire Elon Musk said on November 27 that advertisers who have halted spending on his declining social media platform X in response to antisemitic and other hateful material were engaging in “blackmail.” The controversial South African-born entrepreneur unleashed a profanity-laced tirade, telling detractors to “Go f@ck yourself.” “Don’t advertise,” Musk said. He appeared to specifically call out Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger, saying, “Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience … that’s how I feel.” In an on-stage interview at The New York Times DealBook Summit, Musk also apologized for endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory in response to...

Israel’s military was aware of plans by Hamas to launch an attack on Israeli soil over a year before the devastating October 7 operation that killed hundreds of people, The New York Times reported on December 1. It was the latest in a series of signs that top Israeli commanders either ignored or played down warnings that Hamas was plotting the attack, which triggered a war against the Islamic militant group that has devastated the Gaza Strip. The Times said Israeli officials were in possession of a 40-page battle plan, code-named “Jericho Wall,” that detailed a hypothetical Hamas attack...

Hope Reed was seeing stark disparities a decade ago at her high school in the suburbs of Columbia, South Carolina. Nearly half the school’s students were White, but the freshman remedial math classes were made up of almost all students of color. Reed, then chair of the math department at Blythewood High School, intervened with an experiment. She taught a ninth-grade remedial class and used the regular Algebra 1 curriculum with nearly 50 students. They were honors students, and they were going to do honors work, she recalled telling them. At the end of the year, about 90% of...