Blog Verité

Elise Stefanik’s star rises after college president takedown  Axios University of Pennsylvania President resigns  4 News Now Penn president’s resignation stirs debate about limits of free speech  The Washington Post Opinion | The Fallout From the College Presidents’ Antisemitism Testimony  The New York Times

Elon Musk brings conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back to X following poll  Al Jazeera English Elon Musk restores Alex Jones X account  Eyewitness News ABC7NY Factbox-Who is still banned on X?  Yahoo Finance Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones  NPR

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to replace as many as 15 ministers and junior ministers, the Asahi newspaper said, as he seeks to contain the fallout from a slush fund scandal threatening to paralyze his government.  The reported

Harvard faculty rally around beleaguered university president Claudine Gay  Reuters Harvard president faces mounting pressure to resign after congressional hearing on antisemitism  NBC News Harvard swarmed by truck billboards calling for president to resign in wake of UPenn fallout  Fox News OTR: Clark

Bytedance’s TikTok will merge its Indonesia business with GoTo Group’s e-commerce platform, a move that will allow the Chinese video-sharing app to resume retail operations in the Southeast Asian nation.

Neither the civil proceedings, nor the former president’s criminal cases, have hurt him politically so far.

Donald Trump cancels plans to testify at civil fraud trial in New York  Al Jazeera English Trump backs out of New York trial testimony after ‘dictator for a day’ comments  MSNBC Trump says he will not testify at his civil fraud trial  Fox

Claudine Gay, Harvard’s president, faced rising pressure after her answers to questions about antisemitism. Some faculty members signed a petition supporting her.

‘Tucker Carlson Network’ is expected to go live on Monday and cost $9 a month.

Donald Trump says he will not testify in civil fraud trial on Monday  CBS News Trump backs out of New York trial testimony after ‘dictator for a day’ comments  MSNBC Trump says he will not testify at his civil fraud trial  Fox News