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Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay has been hit with six new plagiarism charges, bringing the total number of allegations against her to nearly 50 as a professor asks the board to conduct a new investigation.

Harvard President Claudine Gay now faces six new plagiarism allegations

Claudine Gay threw in the towel Tuesday, resigning as president of Harvard University after getting hit with six new plagiarism complaints. Gay said in a possibly original letter to the school community, "It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be s...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp approved redrawn political maps that reconfigure the state’s congressional districts and state legislative seats ahead of the 2024 elections after a […]

Saul Loeb/AFP via GettyGeorgia’s Republican-controlled legislature approved a new congressional redistricting map for the 2024 election on Thursday that tears down Rep. Lucy McBath’s (D-GA) district, where most voters are people of color, to form a court-mandated Black majority district. The plan keeps the political balance the same, likely electing nine Republicans and five Democrats to the U.S. House and, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, will send the state back to ...

Republican leadership in both the House and Senate have introduced new maps they say will bring Georgia in compliance with federal law.

Apparently, it is possible for Republican lawmakers to draw majority-Black districts, since Georgia Senate Republicans unveiled a new map proposal on Monday with two of them.

Georgia lawmakers will open a special session Wednesday as majority Republicans move to minimize their losses while also trying to increase the number of Black-majority districts to comply with a federal court order. It's one in a series of redistricting sessions across the South after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 1964 Voting Rights Act, clearing the way for Black voters to win changes from courts. Georgia House Republicans on Tuesday released a map that would likely cost them only t...

The decision by 8th Circuit Court Judge David Stras, a Trump appointee, seizes on a suggestion by Justice Clarence Thomas that few took seriously.

Georgia lawmakers will open a special session Wednesday as majority Republicans move to minimize their losses while also trying to increase the number of Black-majority districts to comply with a federal court order.