In a special meeting Monday, the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to remove $2.3 million in next year's budget allocated for DEI initiatives.
Online astrology platform InstaAstro has raised $2.3 million (Rs 18.50 crore) in a funding round led by Artha Venture Fund. The round also saw participation from LogX Ventures, Singularity Ventures, IR Capital Partners, Blume Founders Fund and Aloke Bajpai, managing director and chief executive of Ixigo.The funds will be used to enhance the platform, onboard more astrologers, expand footprint and build a stronger brand presence. The Noida-based company is also launching new spiritual ecommerce,...
As pro-Palestinian college protests continue nationwide, questions are being asked about the authenticity of the demonstrations—and who is funding them. In the earliest days of the encampments, photos showing rows of identical tents quickly appeared online, prompting many observers to ask if some of the sit-ins were not orchestrated by students. Indeed, according to NYPD
Former Little Rock School District superintend Baker Kurrus argues that the funding for vouchers, woven into the state’s complicated system for funding K-12 schools, violates the state constitution and moves us backward on thorny issues of equity that the state has been trying to address for decades.
"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" host was seen getting a bite to eat at Old Fisherman's Wharf on Friday.
Adam Wurtzel went to the Duke Mansion to learn more about The Independence Fund.
England’s leading fast-bowler, Jimmy Anderson is retiring from cricket, preparing to play his last match against the West Indies on July 10th. The decision was made alongside Anderson´s managing director, Key, coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes. “This is the right decision and this is the right time. Hopefully, he gets a fantastic end […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is planning to raise funds for former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign in the coming weeks.
The latest round of campus madness, in the form of student protests over the Israel-Gaza conflict, should prompt American onlookers to ask a simple question: Why exactly do we give these institutions our money? But as Americans hopefully reassess their continued financing of activist madhouses, we will also need to look more carefully at the […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued SoLo Funds, alleging that the online lending platform used “digital dark patterns” to illegally collect fees from borrowers. The lawsuit also alleged that SoLo Funds misrepresented the cost of loans, made false threats, collected money consumers didn’t owe, and created a credit scoring model with no safeguards, the agency said in a Friday (May 17) press […]
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A NEPA non-profit that has helped people with physical and intellectual disabilities for decades. Now, it needs some help of its own after devastation struck its facility. A setback from Mother Nature isn't stopping the Deutsch Institute from expanding in Lackawanna County. This building in Robinson Park on Scranton's East Mountain []
Washington County was recently awarded $40,473 of federal funding from FEMA through the national Emergency Food and Shelter Program.