The Biden administration has started a formal evaluation of risks from vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a plume of toxic black smoke following the train derailment earlier this year in eastern Ohio.
Conservative activists and journalists Christopher Rufo and Chris Brunet alleged that Harvard University President Claudine Gay plagiarized portions of her Ph.D. dissertation.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) canceled the Sacramento Christmas tree lighting ceremony after pro-Palestine protestors said they would hold a protest.
The Department of Justice convicted 75-year-old Paula Harlow last week of federal conspiracy against rights and FACE offenses for peacefully protesting in front of an abortion clinic in 2020.