President Donald Trump on Friday re-upped his threat to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status, escalating a showdown with the first major college that has defied the administration’s efforts to crack down on campus activism. He’s underscoring that pledge even as federal law prohibits senior members of the executive branch from asking the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or an investigation. The White House has said any IRS actions will be conducted independently of the president. “We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status,” Trump wrote on his social media site Friday morning from Palm Beach, Florida, where he is spending the weekend.

Reports are now suggesting that Palestinians are setting fire to land near Jewish farms between the valley and Mount Kabir in Samaria, which is roughly 40 miles from the current Jerusalem forest fire.

An ISIS member accused of inciting the January 1st terrorist attack on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street, which killed 14 people and injured 57, was arrested in Iraq, the Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq announced Tuesday. The suspect, unidentified in reports, allegedly radicalized Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Texas who executed the attack. Jabbar drove a rented Ford F-150 truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street at around 3 a.m., killing 14 and injuring dozens before being killed in a police shootout. Jabbar had declared allegiance to ISIS in social media videos, stating he joined the group before summer 2024. Iraq’s First Karkh Investigation Court reported the suspect, part of ISIS’s Foreign Operations Office, was detained following U.S.

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