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7+ min ago (756+ words) Universities now reward fragility, not resilience, and call it "student success." Last week, Arizona State University"s provost sent faculty another familiar message ahead of the spring semester: Ensure all digital course materials meet accessibility standards. After 25 years teaching philosophy at ASU, I"m well aware of the institution"s growth and its long-standing commitment to accessibility. That commitment, in itself, is not controversial. But recent data should give universities serious pause. Two reports " one from the Harvard Crimson and another from the Atlantic " put numbers to what many faculty have observed for years. At Harvard, 21% of undergraduates received disability accommodations in 2024, up from roughly 3% a decade earlier. The Crimson notes that Harvard is now aligned with a national average hovering around 20%. The Atlantic goes further, describing what it calls an "age of accommodation" at elite schools. At Brown and…...

12+ min ago (525+ words) By LifeZette News Staff December 19, 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced actions aimed at banning transgender sex-change procedures for children, arguing that such interventions violate basic medical ethics and cause lasting harm to minors. Kennedy said his decision is based on scientific evidence, federal health findings, and an executive order issued by President Trump. In a statement outlining the rationale for the move, Kennedy accused doctors and major medical organizations of abandoning their obligations to protect children. MORE NEWS: "Hold the Phone: Democrats Poll Numbers Now at Lowest Point in Modern History [WATCH] "Doctors assume a solemn obligation to protect children," Kennedy said. "Doctors across the country now provide needless and irreversible sex, rejecting procedures that violate their sacred Hippocratic Oath, endangering the very lives that they are sworn to safeguard." Kennedy specifically criticized organizations such as the American Medical Association and…...

12+ min ago (144+ words) Sputnik International is a global news media keeping you updated on all the latest world news 24/7. Browse Sputnik for breaking news and top stories on politics, economy, social media and the most viral trends. Putin is addressing the public live from Moscow's Gostiny Dvor, where the president is holding his year-end press conference.The event combines the traditional year-end press conference and the Q&A session, with questions coming from journalists nationwide as well as Russian citizens, first merged in 2023 The question collection for the event began on December 4 at 15:00 MSK and is ongoing According to the Kremlin's channel on the MAX platform, over one million questions have already been submitted Once again, GigaChat is assisting with processing and transcribing the submissions Join the live broadcast to follow President Putin's reflections, announcements, and responses in real time....

13+ min ago (891+ words) By LifeZette News Staff December 19, 2025 CNN data analyst Harry Enten and anchor Kate Bolduan discussed collapsing approval ratings for Democrats in Congress during a recent segment, pointing to polling that shows historic lows across the electorate, including among independents and Democrats themselves. "Right now? Yeah. I mean Democrats, in the minds of the American public are lower than the Dead Sea," Enten said. MORE NEWS: Two Haitians Busted in $7 Million SNAP Fraud Scheme in Deep Blue Sanctuary City [WATCH] "What are we talking about here? Well, let's take a look the net approval rating for Democrats in Congress. You said it. Kate Bolduan, the lowest ever." Enten said the overall net approval rating for Democrats in Congress is deeply negative. "Overall, they are 55 Points underwater. Their approval rating is south of 20%," he said. He added that the numbers are even…...

22+ min ago (182+ words) A cold-blooded serial killer who slaughtered five people was executed by lethal injection Thursday night in Florida " becoming the Sunshine State's 19th death row inmate to die this year. Frank Athen Walls, 58, was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. after being injected with a three-drug cocktail while strapped to a gurney as a Catholic priest prayed by his feet inside the death chamber at Florida State Prison in Raiford. For his last words, the convicted killer apologized for the pain he's caused his victims' families. A cold-blooded serial killer who slaughtered five people was executed by lethal injection Thursday night in Florida " becoming the Sunshine State's 19th death row inmate to die this year. Frank Athen Walls, 58, was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. after being injected with a three-drug cocktail while strapped to a gurney as a Catholic priest prayed by his feet inside the death chamber…...

24+ min ago (426+ words) Sputnik International is a global news media keeping you updated on all the latest world news 24/7. Browse Sputnik for breaking news and top stories on politics, economy, social media and the most viral trends. According to the figures, over the first 10 months of 2025 Paris supplied Moscow with goods and services worth 3.3 billion euros ($3.8 billion), compared with 7.3 billion euros in 2021 As a result, France has lost 55% of its exports to Russia since the introduction of anti-Russian sanctions France's average monthly revenue from exports to Russia fell 2.2 times, the data showed While in 2021, France earned an average of 733.8 million euros per month from supplies to the Russian market, this year's trade revenues dropped to 330.7 euros million per month The West has increased sanctions pressure on Russia due to the conflict in Ukraine, leading to rising prices for electricity, fuel and food in…...

24+ min ago (151+ words) Police, who held a line at the very gate of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium on Thursday were pelted with potatoes by angry farmers worried a new free trade deal will see their livelihoods and industry destroyed. A government-authorized protest for 50 tractors in Brussels turned into a demonstration with "around 1,000" tractors present and over 7,000 farmers on Thursday. While the protest largely passed off without incident, there were clashes at the European Parliament building, where farmers threw potatoes and eggs and received tear gas and water cannon in return. [] The farmers are protesting the forthcoming EU-Mercosur agreement which will open the European trade bloc up to tariff-free trade with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia. Farmers say their livelihoods will be wiped out by competition from considerably cheaper goods produced in huge quantities in countries where mandatory standards are much…...

24+ min ago (410+ words) MILWAUKEE'A jury found a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican illegal immigrant dodge federal authorities guilty of obstruction Thursday. Federal prosecutors charged Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan with obstruction, a felony, and concealing an individual to prevent arrest, a misdemeanor, in April. The jury acquitted her on the concealment count, but she still faces up to five years in prison on the obstruction count. The jury returned the verdicts after deliberating for six hours. Dugan and her attorneys left the courtroom, ducked into a side conference room and closed the door without speaking to reporters. According to a court filings that include an FBI affidavit and a federal grand jury indictment, immigration authorities traveled to the Milwaukee County courthouse on April 18 after learning 31-year-old Eduardo Flores-Ruiz had reentered the country illegally and was scheduled to appear before Dugan…...

28+ min ago (646+ words) MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Law and common sense have prevailed for now, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Russian special presidential envoy for economic cooperation with foreign countries, said on Friday, commenting on the European Union's decision not to confiscate Russian assets. Earlier in the day, EU Council President Antonio Costa said that the EU would provide Ukraine with a 90 billion euro ($105 billion) loan, based on the EU budget and potentially repayable using frozen Russian assets "IF true, shelving the EU's originally proposed illegal scheme to tap Russian foreign reserves to fund Ukraine is a major win for LAW + common sense " and for the voices of reason in Europe that protected EU// Euroclear (for now)," Dmitriev said on X The Kremlin has said that any attempts to confiscate Russian assets would be theft and a violation…...

46+ min ago (474+ words) By LifeZette News Staff December 19, 2025 U.S. Attorney Leah Foley announced federal charges against Antonio Bonheur and Saul Alisme for large-scale trafficking of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. Foley said the charges allege the two men turned a program designed to feed families into a multi-million-dollar criminal enterprise involving SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps. According to Foley, both defendants are charged with one count of food stamp fraud as alleged in the charging documents. MORE NEWS: NASCAR Champion Greg Biffle, Wife, and Children Killed in North Carolina Plane Crash [WATCH] She said the case involves allegations that the defendants abused a government safety-net program for personal financial gain by exchanging SNAP benefits for cash and keeping the money. Foley identified Bonheur as a naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti who owned the Jesula Variety Store. She identified Alisme as a lawful permanent…...