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Breaking precedent, UW System presidential search panel has no faculty, academic staff | Higher education
The head of the UW Board of Regents has broken decades of precedent by appointing a search committee for the next University of Wisconsin System president that does not include any faculty members or academic staff. The nine members that will identify System President Ray Cross’ successor is the smallest and least inclusive presidential search …
Breaking: Trump names seven to revived presidential science advisory panel | Science
By Jeffrey MervisOct. 22, 2019 , 12:50 PM Thirty-three months after taking office, President Donald Trump has chosen a group of business leaders to advise him on science and technology policy. The White House today announced the first seven of an expected group of 16 members of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and …
Iran-linked hackers tried to compromise presidential campaign, Microsoft says
A group of hackers believed to be linked to the government of Iran tried to access email accounts associated with a U.S. presidential campaign, Microsoft announced Friday. The company said that it had seen “significant cyber activity” from a group of hackers that it believes “originates from Iran and is linked to the Iranian government.” …
Sanders presidential campaign pivots health scare to Medicare for All message
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential election campaign on Wednesday sought to use news the candidate had a heart procedure to highlight the benefits of his trademark Medicare for All healthcare plan. FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) takes the stage at the New Hampshire Democratic Party …
Afghanistan presidential election: All the latest updates | News
Voting is under way in Afghanistan’s presidential election, the fourth since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Incumbent President Ashraf Ghani is seen as the frontrunner in the 14-man race, with Abdullah Abdullah, the country’s chief executive, considered his main rival. Security forces are on high alert due to threats from the Taliban to attack polling stations. Here …
Afghanistan presidential election: Polls open amid tight security | News
Polls have opened in Afghanistan’s presidential elections amid fears of violence following threats by the Taliban to disrupt the election process. Security has been tightened across the country, with tens of thousands of troops and police deployed to guard polling stations and prevent attacks. Early on Saturday, an explosion occurred near a polling station in the …
Bill de Blasio drops out of 2020 presidential race
De Blasio sought to cast himself as the most progressive candidate in the large field of Democrats vying to take on President Donald Trump, and he used his time on the national stage to attack less progressive candidates, namely former Vice President Joe Biden, for positions that he felt were out of step with the …
Paul Fanlund: Does health care seem like the only Democratic presidential issue? | Paul Fanlund
Which is it? Are you for or against Medicare for all? Now let’s argue for the next hour. Provoked in part by media questioners, Democrats running for president talk incessantly about health-care politics. It’s as if the economy, climate change, firearms, foreign affairs and immigration hardly matter. Sure, Donald Trump and Republicans want to kill …
Democratic debates 2019 live updates: In Texas, Democrats face off for third Democratic presidential primary debates – live updates
CBSN The 10 leading Democratic candidates focused heavily on health care and gun control Thursday in the first debate where they have all been on the same stage. Beto O’Rourke got some of the loudest cheers of the night when he said “hell yes, we’re going to take away your AR-15s, your AK-47s.” Other cheers …
Presidential Candidates Flock to New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention
“Everybody else and the pundits can ride polls; I’m not on that roller coaster,” she told reporters after her speech. “I am working hard, we are steady, I don’t get high with the polls, I don’t go low with the polls. The reality is, my measure of the outcome of our work and the success …
