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In early November, a small group of senior U.S. human rights diplomats met with a top official in President Joe Biden’s State Department to make one final, emphatic plea: We must keep our word.

www.propublica.org/article/bide...
A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Departme...
www.propublica.org
January 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
D Leonhardt, NYT:
... the emerging data from academic research tells a different story: Standardized tests are less biased than many other parts of the college application process ...
Test scores seem to be useful at identifying students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have enormous potential.
January 14, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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Republican polling leader Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened unrest if the criminal charges against him cause him to lose the 2024 election. The former president did not take questions and walked away as a Washington Post reporter asked him to rule out violence by his supporters.
Trump warns of ‘bedlam,’ declines to rule out violence after court hearing
Trump spoke after his lawyers argued to an appeals court that the former president should be immune from prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 9, 2024 at 7:17 PM