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Harvard president gets university board’s backing amid congressional hearing backlash

Tuesday, December 12 by ABC News

(NEW YORK) -- Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay cleared a hurdle to keeping her job after the Harvard Corporation board issued a statement unanimously affirming its support for her amid backlash over her response at a congressional hearing to a question about the "genocide...

Sandy Township approves housing expansion

Tuesday, November 7 by Louise Bennett

SANDY TWP. – A housing expansion in Sandy Township has been given the green light.The township supervisors and municipal boards approved plans last night for the Kiwanis Estates development which is expected to bring 75 new homes to the area.The first phase is expected...

Termination boards: How physicians are providing abortions within exceptions allowed by bans

Friday, June 23 by ABC News

(NEW YORK) -- Shortly after a Tennessee trigger ban on abortion went into effect last September, a group of maternal fetal medicine specialists, family planning physicians, bioethicists, neonatologists and a lawyer gathered to form a panel tasked with determining whether the facility could provide...

School board’s Pride month vote leads to fights, protests, arrests in Glendale, Calif.

Wednesday, June 7 by ABC News

(GLENDALE, Calif.) -- A California school district meeting where administrators voted to recognize Pride month, which celebrates the LGBTQ+ community, erupted into protests outside the venue involving several hundred people, according to the Glendale Police Department.Protesters of the Glendale Unified School District policy to...

Biden ousts Conway, Spicer, other Trump appointees from military academy boards

Wednesday, September 8 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- The White House on Wednesday asked all 18 of former President Donald Trump’s appointees to the boards of the nation's military academies, including former adviser Kellyanne Conway, press secretary Sean Spicer and national security adviser H.R. McMaster, to resign by Wednesday evening...

Florida Department of Education to withhold salaries for Broward, Alachua county boards; schools plan to keep mask mandates

Tuesday, August 31 by ABC News

(FLA.) -- Florida's Department of Education announced on Monday that it would withhold school board members' salaries in Alachua and Broward counties because of their school mask mandates.Both counties' school districts said on Tuesday they still plan on requiring masks because of the COVID-19 pandemic and are exploring legal...

Police oversight boards are proliferating, but do they actually work?

Friday, June 4 by ABC News

(NEW YORK) -- While police oversight boards have been around for decades, a string of high-profile killings in recent years, including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, have focused greater scrutiny on the use of force and need to hold officers accountable.The idea behind the...

Pentagon purges advisory boards of Trump loyalists

Tuesday, February 2 by ABC News

By LUIS MARTINEZ, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday ordered the resignation of the hundreds of people that serve on the Pentagon’s 42 civilian advisory boards, effectively purging a number of Trump loyalists named to the boards...

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