[WJLA] Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton shared his outrage over Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s decision to resign Tuesday, saying he would seek to hold those responsible accountable.
Gay became ensnared in controversy over the past month, stemming back to a congressional testimony during which she failed to unequivocally say calls for Jewish "genocide" violated Harvard conduct policies. She was later accused of plagiarizing portions of her academic works, including her doctoral dissertation.
Sharpton condemned Gay’s critics as racist for questioning the integrity of a Black woman.
"President Gay’s resignation is about more than a person or a single incident. This is an attack on every Black woman in this country who’s put a crack in the glass ceiling," he said in a statement to CNN Tuesday.
He later vowed to picket outside Pershing Square CEO and Harvard alum Bill Ackman’s office with his civil rights organization for accusing Gay of being no more than a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) hire.
[NYP] She won’t be leading the Crimson, but green shouldn’t be a problem.
Outgoing Harvard President Claudine Gay will still likely earn nearly $900,000 a year despite being forced to resign her position as the school’s top administrator.
Political Science professor Gay — who stepped down amid a tempest of allegations she did not do enough to combat antisemitism and academic plagiarism Tuesday — will now return to a position on the Cambridge, Mass., school’s faculty.
Prior to being named president just six months ago, Gay earned $879,079 as a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean in 2021 and $824,068 in 2020, according to records published by the university.
Her new position was not specified Tuesday, but she is expected to receive a salary comparable with what she previously received — if not higher. She should be required to pay her unwilling "Co-Authors"
[10News] The victim's father said his son was traveling to visit a sick relative but had struggled with mental health for nearly a decade. And addiction? See the administration of Naloxone (Narcan) in the last sentence
A Utah man died Monday night after he breached an airport security door and crawled into the engine of a plane at Salt Lake City International Airport.
Police disclosed that Kyle Efinger, 30, was a ticketed passenger with a boarding pass to Denver. They said that at 9:52 p.m., a store manager inside the airport reported a disturbance involving a passenger on the secured side of the terminal. Airport control later told officers that a man went through an emergency exit door.
As officers and employees from the airport started looking for the man, they discovered he accessed the airport's ramp area from the emergency exit. The airport detailed that Efinger ran to the south end of the airport's west runway and crawled into the engine of a plane.
Shortly after, a pilot reported seeing Efinger, and officers found clothing and shoes on one of the airport's runways. About 20 minutes later, officials found Efinger unconscious inside a "wing-mounted engine of an occupied commercial aircraft on the deicing pad," police reported.
"The aircraft's engines were rotating," police said. "The specific stage of engine operation remains under investigation."
Officials worked to get Efinger out of the area and performed life-saving efforts on him, including CPR and administration of naloxone; however, he died at the scene.
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[MAIL] USS New Jersey, the Navy’s biggest, fastest and most awarded battleship, is set to embark on its first journey in over two decades.
This spring, the historical vessel will be dry-docked in the berth where it was built and launched in the 1940s.
USS New Jersey, which was converted to a museum in the the nineties, will be transported from the Camden Waterfront by tugboat to North Atlantic Ship Repair at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
There, the bottom of the impressive ship - which spans more than the length of two football fields - will undergo maintenance for the first time in 32 years.
'The ship needs to be inspected, repainted, updated, and brought back home to continue the mission,' Camden Mayor Vic Carstarphen told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Five people aboard a coastguard aircraft were killed when their plane collided with a Japan Airlines passenger jet coming in to land at Tokyo's Haneda International Airport.
Only one crewmember managed to escape with severe injuries, citing Japanese police report on the incident.
Coastguard flight MA-722 aircraft, a Bombardier Dash-8, was struck by JAL flight 516 - a much larger Airbus A-350 - on runway C at Haneda, with both planes immediately erupting into flames.
Shocking footage showed the Japan Airlines jet engulfed in a raging inferno as it sat on the runway with gouts of flame seen pouring out of the passenger windows.
One horrific clip showed the flames licking from the airliner's main cabin door as smouldering debris fell from the fuselage onto the tarmac, while another showed passengers sprinting along the runway to escape the blaze, running away from the engines which were spitting out chunks of flaming debris.
Images from the scene showed how the passenger escape slide protruding from one of the airliner's doors was set ablaze as more flames burned within the cabin, and the aircraft's hull later split in two as the fire melted through huge chunks of its bodywork.
Miraculously, all 379 passengers and crew aboard the Japan Airlines flight were successfully evacuated from the stricken plane, a JAL front man said, but the crew of the much smaller Bombardier aircraft did not have time to evade the blaze.
The Jiji news agency reported the coastguard plane was set to leave to help with rescue efforts following a massive earthquake in central Japan on New Year's Day, with the five deaths of the crew members further compounding the tragedy. Hence, the graphic. RIP
The Japan Airlines flight had flown out of Shin Chitose airport in Japan and was landing at Haneda airport when the disaster occurred.
Several experts described the evacuation of the passenger plane as 'phenomenal' and 'a miracle'.
Prof Graham Braithwaite, director of transport systems at Cranfield University in the UK, told BBC: 'The evacuation has been successful and it is a reminder how much has gone into training cabin crew.
'Their focus is on safety. They are the last people to evacuate the airplane and on face value, it looks like they have done an incredible job.'
A coasties official at Haneda Airport, one of the world's busiest, said they were 'checking details' of the reported collision and initially could not confirm what had happened.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[WJLA] Civil rights activist Rev. 
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Five people aboard a coastguard aircraft were killed when their plane collided with a 
