The 15-member UN Security Council (UNSC) is poised to vote on April 19 on a Palestinian application for full UN membership, diplomats commented, as cited by news outlet Reuters. However, observers expect the United States, a staunch ally of Israel, to block the move, as it would effectively acknowledge a Palestinian state. Notably, a draft resolution ...
Yet again, a plagiarism scandal has hit Harvard University. This time, the culprit is an assistant professor at the medical school, Dipak Panigrahy, who plagiarized “large portions” of a report he submitted to a federal court as an expert witness, Harvard’s Crimson newspaper reported. But the pilfered prose isn’t just trouble for the plaintiffs in ...
Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) now appears willing to sell out his wife to save his own skin. Court records freshly unsealed reveal that Menendez’s defense team is trying to persuade a court that Menendez’s wife, Nadine, withheld information from him that somehow is sufficient to exonerate him from various charges of fraud, bribery, and extortion. ...
