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Apalachee High School students recount horror of deadly shooting

A 14-year-old student opened fire inside a north central Georgia high school on Wednesday, sending shock waves of terror through the hallways along with confusion about whether the incident was real or just a drill. Students and teachers inside the school learned the events turned out to be real, as four people – two teachers...

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Jewish Americans take self-defense precautions before holidays amid rising antisemitism

Jewish Americans, bearing witness to soaring antisemitism across the country, are taking self-defense precautions during the back-to-school season with the high holidays approaching. Community Security Service (CSS) CEO Richard Priem tells Fox News Digital his organization has worked with approximately 500 synagogues and has trained an additional 15,000 community members around the country on how...

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Masked anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University demonstrate as students check in for first day of classes

Masked anti-Israel protesters are demonstrating on Tuesday outside of one of the entrances to Columbia University, chanting, “Free Palestine!” and holding signs urging the Ivy League school to “divest from death” as students are trying to get to their first day of classes. The demonstrations come after a series of protests rocked the New York...

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UC Berkeley slapped with federal civil rights complaint, accused of 'unlawful' racial discrimination

The University of California, Berkeley has been hit with a federal civil rights complaint for allegedly engaging in discrimination on the basis of race and nation of origin. A new federal civil rights complaint filed by the Equal Protection Project (EPP) on Tuesday demanded an investigation into programs at the Haas School of Business, alleging...

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Psychiatrist shares secret to helping parents deal with kids' back-to-school anxiety, stress

Anxiety and stress among schoolchildren skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, feeding chronic absenteeism, and the dawn of a new school year is leaving kids and parents alike to grapple with yet another wave of each. To catch it in its tracks, experts say parents should look for signs such as difficulty concentrating, tension and fidgeting,...

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Minnesota Walz-appointed board requires teachers to ‘affirm’ their students' gender identities

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota has personally appointed members to the state’s teachers board, a body that will require educators to “affirm” their students’ gender identities, have “racial consciousness,” and learn to “disrupt oppressive systems,” public notices show. The Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) updated its Standards of Effective Practice with new...

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NY Times publishes guest essay saying DEI is ‘not working’ months after publishing essay saying it ‘works'

Just over half a year after Harvard Business School professors published a guest essay in the New York Times saying that D.E.I. works, Stanford professors published a New York Times guest essay of their own admitting it doesn’t. The contrary pieces appear to suggest that, as time has gone on, not all proponents of leftwing...

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College graduate to expand organization helping students overcome pornography addictions at schools nationwide

A recent Notre Dame graduate wants to address pornography addiction, which he says is a pervasive issue among American men that is seldom discussed. Joshua Haskell, who graduated in the spring, struggled with a pornography addiction that he eventually overcame in college. He launched a network of peer-led, in-person small groups to help college men...

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Half of Minnesota students not meeting standards for reading, math or science: state assessment

Minnesota students are not meeting testing standards in three core learning categories, according to newly released state assessment data. The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) on Thursday released new data that revealed that more than half of students in the state are not meeting standards in math, reading and science. The tests are administered by...

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We can't let the anti-US hatred and radicalism our troops fought abroad take root here at home

This week, as first-year students at Columbia University arrivedformove-in day, they were met not with the usual excitement of starting college but with disruption orchestrated by radical student groups like StudentsforJustice in Palestine (SJP) and Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD). These groups distributed pamphlets entitled “Lessons on Taking the School” with instructions on how to...