Republicans launch probe into Harvard for flouting civil rights law
Republicans in the US Congress have announced an investigation into Harvard University, accusing it of flouting civil rights law in an escalation of President Trump’s attacks on elite institutions.
The lawmakers wrote to the world-renowned education and research establishment demanding documents on its hiring practices, diversity programmes and last year’s pro-Palestinian campus protests.
The investigation was announced after Trump on Wednesday called the storied seat of learning a “joke” and that it should lose its government research contracts and tax-exempt status.
Massive fire at Ras Isa port in Yemen after US strike
Videos posted by Yemeni activists, and verified by Al Jazeera, show a massive fire at Ras Isa port in Yemen’s Hodeidah province. The US military’s Central Command, CENTCOM, earlier said it targeted a station supplying fuel to the Houthis.
That's one way to get oil prices to go back up ...
Houthi-affiliated media outlet Al Masirah TV reports that 22 people are confirmed dead, including five paramedics who were at the scene tending to fires caused by earlier US strikes.According to Rashid Maarouf, a journalist affiliated with the Yemen National Army, the military forces of the internationally recognised Republic of Yemen government, said many victims were in the area looking for their relatives after earlier US strikes.“There were victims who fell in the port as a result of the first raids, and many of the families headed to the port to search for their missing relatives,” he wrote in a post on X.“When the people gathered and the ambulances arrived, the US navy targeted everyone again and a second massacre occurred. The situation now in the port is very difficult and tragic. Even the ambulances were targeted,” Maarouf added.
Just like Israel's playbook, double tap.
