Tag: Education & Family News

Supreme Court Decides Abortion Pill to Remain Amid Ongoing Legal Battle

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Friday that mifepristone, an abortion pill, will be broadly accessible amid an ongoing legal battle over its regulatory approval. Mifepristone, approved in 2000 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is part of a chemical abortion process, and is generally taken with another drug called misoprostol, to kill an unborn child in…


Indiana University’s ‘Implicit Bias’ Training Module for Hiring Faculty Under Scrutiny

The Indiana University Office of Academic Affairs is under scrutiny for its “implicit bias” training module about hiring practices at the university. Do No Harm (DNH), an organization that spotlights discriminatory practices in academic and medical institutions, highlighted a training module used at the university for faculty search committees, encouraging committee members to consider ideological…


GOP Senators Urge US Ambassador to Denounce UN-backed Report They Claim Is Supportive of ‘Pedophiles’

A group of Republican senators sent a letter to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield and asked that condemn a U.N.-endorsed report that they allege “gives credence” to pedophiles while eroding rules that protect minors from abuse and sexual exploitation. Led by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the senators wrote that they want to know…


IN-DEPTH: Transgender Teacher Spoke About Wanting to Shoot Students, Parents Accuse District of ‘Cover-Up’

It took three weeks for parents to discover that a transgender middle school teacher in Florida confessed to a guidance counselor that the teacher was having “bad thoughts” of self-harm and shooting students. Now parents are demanding answers, accusing the district of a cover-up, and petitioning Florida’s governor to remove certain members of the Hernando…


LIVE NOW: Supreme Court Forced to Act on Abortion Pill as Deadline Approaches

On April 21, the Supreme Court faces another self-imposed deadline to act on limits on access to abortion pill mifepristone. Exterior views of the Supreme Court building will be livestreamed. …


Texas Senate Unanimously Passes School Safety Bill

The Texas Senate unanimously passed a school safety bill that would require increased security measures across the state. “Texans have been reminded far too often that evil exists and that we live in a broken world,” Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said in a press release on Wednesday following the bill’s passing. “SB [Senate Bill] 11…


Indiana School Officials Admit to Hiding CRT, DEI Teachings From Parents in Undercover Video

Video footage has emerged showing officials across schools in Indiana allegedly admitting to teaching critical race theory (CRT) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles to students under different terms to avoid upsetting parents. The undercover interviews by the nonprofit conservative news media watchdog, Accuracy in Media (AIM), were published on April 12. The footage…


AI Will Eventually Be ‘As Good a Tutor as Any Human’: Bill Gates

Artificial intelligence (AI) may not be advanced enough to replace teachers now, but according to Bill Gates, that time is not far off. “The AIs will get to that ability to be as good a tutor as any human ever could,” the Microsoft co-founder said at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego on April 18….


Boy Dead After Overdosing on Common Allergy Medicine in TikTok Challenge

A 13-year-old boy from Ohio died after he overdosed on a common allergy medication when he participated in a so-called TikTok challenge. Jacob Stevens, of Greenfield, took 12 to 14 Benadryl tablets, more than six times the recommended dosage, his family said. The over-the-counter drug’s generic name is diphenhydramine, an antihistamine. It’s typically used to treat…


Biden Says He Will Veto Bill Protecting Female Sports

The Biden administration has announced that the president will veto the H.R. 734 bill that seeks to protect female sports from transgender athletes. H.R. 734, also known as “The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” was introduced by Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) and is expected to come to vote in the House this…