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when the 30-day deadline was up, Blinken made it official and said that Israelis had begun implementing most of the steps...

On Nov. 14, a U.N. committee said that Israel’s methods in Gaza, including its use of starvation as a weapon, was “consistent with genocide.”

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...

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.

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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.

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.

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.