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FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — Over the summer, many in Fairfax County’s Centreville High School community saw social media reports of a teacher’s claims that school staff arranged and bankrolled an abortion for a minor student and pressured another to get an abortion with the parents’ knowledge and consent. When 7News saw the viral claims on social media in August, 7News Reporter Nick Minock reached out to Fairfax County Public Schools. The school system spokesperson replied and told Minock at the time, ”We learned yesterday of these concerning allegations from 2021. We are launching an immediate and comprehensive investigation as...

Budget crises are nothing new for New York City. Though the city has come a long way since the 1970s, when it was over $400 million in debt and required state and federal intervention, New York has been in the red for the past three years. Current projections suggest a surplus for 2026, but it's going to require precise management of city funds to avoid squandering it. Is a far-left communist Muslim terrorist the answer to managing the city's money properly? Enter Zohran Mamdani, who can almost bench press 135 pounds. He plans to completely exhaust New York's $115.9 billion...

Back in 2018, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) urged her supporters to make members of President Trump's Cabinet uncomfortable in public saying, "If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station — you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere."For years, Democrats have done just that. Including back in September when President Trump and others dined out in DC and were heckled by protesters.But Democrats never thought the shoe could one day be on the other foot...

A staffer at a Massachusetts school died after allegedly being kicked in the chest by a teenage girl. Amy Morrell, 53, was assaulted by a 14-year-old student at Meadowridge Academy in Swansea on Wednesday evening, authorities said. The teenager was trying to leave a dorm building without permission when the altercation occurred around 6.55pm, according to the Bristol County District Attorney's Office. Morrell was trying to restrain the girl, per investigators, only to receive a kick to the chest that proved to be a fatal blow. The staffer collapsed shortly after she was assaulted. School staff immediately began CPR and...

According to figures released by the national statistics agency INSEE, out of 660,787 babies born in France last year, 225,591 – or 34.1 percent – had at least one parent born outside the country. Of these, 125,440 babies – 19 percent of all births – were born to two foreign-born parents, the highest level recorded to date.

Conservatives are nowhere to be seen in a Harvard University course focused on black women in politics, according to a copy of the syllabus obtained by The College Fix.Dr. Mildred Jefferson, the first black woman to graduate from Harvard University's medical school; Courtesy of American Life League'History 167: Race, Gender, and the Law Through the Archive' praises First Lady Michelle Obama, failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, and Vice President Kamala Harris for having “left their mark on 21st-century politics and grassroots organizing.”The course says it will examine black women in the 20th century who “shap[ed] politics, grassroots organizing, the...

USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim rejected the Trump administration’s education compact, which would offer priority funding to universities following the president’s conservative vision. The USC Academic Senate strongly opposed the compact, with faculty calling it “probably unconstitutional” and “antithetical to principles of academic freedom.” The University of Southern California on Thursday said that it had rejected the controversial education compact the Trump administration offered it and eight other schools. USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer, which would give priority research...

In a clear sign that the radical gender ideology push is losing steam, new data reveals a shocking drop in the number of American college students identifying as transgender or non-binary, just two years after the trend peaked under the Biden-Harris administration’s influence. According to a report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), analyzed by the Centre for Heterodox Social Science, the percentage of U.S. undergraduates claiming identities other than male or female has declined from 6.8 percent in 2023 to just 3.6 percent in 2025, representing a nearly 50 percent decrease. The report states: The scale...

When two transgender Utah girls and their parents sued to stop a law passed three years ago that would ban them from participating in sports with other girls, they were going into eighth and ninth grades, fighting as they entered high school to share in the same pastimes as their peers. But as they enter their final years of high school, after three years in court and amid President Donald Trump’s second term in office, their case to run and swim with classmates who are their same gender has fallen apart.

Democrats explained to the ignorant Young Republicans that hateful messages aren't meant to be written in text messages, but engraved on bullets. In the wake of a text message leak revealing that several Young Republicans used derogatory slurs and joked about violence, Democrats were left aghast that the words were not carved into ammunition and fired at political opponents. "Absolute idiots," declared local Democrat Dean Barlow. "Why on earth would you write something like that in a text? You always, always engrave that stuff on a bullet and then murder someone with it. It's politics 101. Total amateur hour over...

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Audiobook sales returned to a double-digit growth rate in 2024, increasing 13% over 2023, according to the just-released Audio Publishers Association Sales Survey. After a number of years of sales growing at a rate of at least 10% annually, sales rose 9% in 2023. Last year, total sales from the APA members who supply data increased to $2.22 billion; the bump was driven, unsurprisingly, by digital audio, which had a 14% sales increase and accounted for 99% of revenue. The

Incorporating machine learning, MIT engineers developed a way to 3D print alloys that are much stronger than conventionally manufactured versions. MIT engineers have developed a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and is five times stronger than traditionally manufactured aluminum. The new printable metal is made from a mix of aluminum and other elements that the team identified using a combination of simulations and machine learning, which significantly pruned the number of possible combinations of materials to search through. While traditional methods would require simulating over 1 million possible combinations of materials, the team’s new machine learning-based approach...

Oxford Union alumni plan to descend on the university city this weekend in an attempt to oust the president-elect. Former members of the debating society are considering travelling from as far afield as Hong Kong and New York to vote against George Abaraonye in a poll on his leadership on Saturday, sources told The Telegraph. University alumni have been encouraged to attend the in-person vote in order to preserve “the reputation of Britain’s historic institutions”. It comes after Mr Abararaonye took the unusual step of triggering a no-confidence motion in himself on Monday, following widespread anger over his remarks about...

About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement.A pair of decades-old promises from Congress — ensuring disabled students receive a free and appropriate education and protecting all pupils from discrimination in schools — have been thrown into doubt after a round of sweeping layoffs at the Education Department.The department’s Office of Special Education Programs was decimated by the cuts, which the Trump administration issued on Friday in its latest reduction of the federal work force. The special education office has been the principal government...

The past decade may rank as one of the worst in the history of American education. It marks a stark reversal from what was once a hopeful story. At the start of the century, American students registered steady improvement in math and reading. Around 2013, this progress began to stall out, and then to backslide dramatically. What exactly went wrong? The decline began well before the pandemic, so COVID-era disruptions alone cannot explain it. Smartphones and social media probably account for some of the drop. But there’s another explanation, albeit one that progressives in particular seem reluctant to countenance: a...

The world is waking up. This is great news for young people, great news for parents -- and terrible news for the doctors who had begun to profit from this madness. From UnHerd: Data from my new Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, 'The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans', shows that since 2023 both trans and queer identification have dropped sharply within Generation Z. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which conducts a large annual survey of US undergraduates, polled over 60,000 students in 2025. My analysis of the raw data shows that in...

Democrats have called on President Donald J. Trump to stand down and immediately stop fanning the flames of peace. "Never have we seen a president more recklessly stoke the devastating flames of no war," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said. "Now there's peace in the Middle East? What's next? Russia and Ukraine? It's appalling." This year alone, Trump mediated a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, facilitated an agreement between Rwanda and Congo, brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, prevented a water war between Egypt and Ethiopia, used the power of trade to end clashes between Thailand and Cambodia, oversaw...

Back in September, a judge ordered Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) to halt the suspensions of boys who complained about a "trans identifying" girl filming them in their locker room, and the Department of Education (DOE) slapped the district with Title IX violations. Initially, three boys -- a Muslim and two Christians -- were slapped with the suspensions. The punishment was later dropped against the Muslim boy, while the two Christians faced a ten-day suspension for "sexual harassment and sex based discrimination."The girl who filmed the boys in the locker room without their consent didn't face such consequences, and LCPS...

Indeed, even vocal supporters of America’s effort are now expressing doubts that Nasa will be able to beat the Chinese space agency in the race to send humans back to the lunar surface. China has been making great strides in its lunar effort and is targeting a Moon landing by 2030. America’s programme, on the other hand, is beset with problems, including the lack of a working lunar landing system and lunar surface spacesuits that are behind schedule.