{"id":478,"date":"2024-01-02T20:20:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/harvard-president-claudine-gay-resigns-with-heavy-heart-amid-antisemitism-furor-and-plagiarism-claims-live\/"},"modified":"2024-01-02T20:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:20:38","slug":"harvard-president-claudine-gay-resigns-with-heavy-heart-amid-antisemitism-furor-and-plagiarism-claims-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/harvard-president-claudine-gay-resigns-with-heavy-heart-amid-antisemitism-furor-and-plagiarism-claims-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns \u2018with heavy heart\u2019 amid antisemitism furor and plagiarism claims \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter posted on the university\u2019s website, Gay says \u2018it has become clear that it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2024\/jan\/02\/harvard-president-claudine-gay-resigns\">Full report: Harvard president resigns <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2024\/jan\/02\/harvard-president-claudine-gay-resignation-letter\">Claudine Gay\u2019s letter in full<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Democrats are, unsurprisingly, laying into Republican House majority leader Steve Scalise for his endorsement of Donald Trump today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even before his endorsement, Scalise was among the many House Republicans who have cast doubt on the validity of <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong>\u2019s victory in the 2020 election, and supported the Trump campaign\u2019s failed effort to get the supreme court to interfere in the vote result four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>MAGA House Republicans keep showing America they\u2019ve turned the House into little more than an arm of Donald Trump\u2019s campaign \u2013 so it\u2019s no surprise Steve Scalise, who called himself \u2018David Duke without the baggage,\u2019 is joining the parade of House extremists backing Trump\u2019s bid. Scalise\u2019s top priority has always been pushing Trump\u2019s unpopular agenda: He voted against certifying the 2020 election, is hellbent on banning abortion nationwide, and worked with Trump to try to rip away Americans\u2019 health care. Scalise\u2019s endorsement is the latest proof that while the House GOP is unable to accomplish anything on behalf of the American people, they are laser-focused on advancing Trump\u2019s MAGA agenda and ripping away freedoms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2024\/jan\/02\/trump-january-6-charges-immunity-trials-republican-polling-latest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter posted on the university\u2019s website, Gay says \u2018it has become clear that it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign\u2019 Full report: Harvard president resigns Claudine Gay\u2019s letter in full The Democrats are, unsurprisingly, laying into Republican House majority leader Steve Scalise for his endorsement of Donald Trump &#8230; <a title=\"Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns \u2018with heavy heart\u2019 amid antisemitism furor and plagiarism claims \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/harvard-president-claudine-gay-resigns-with-heavy-heart-amid-antisemitism-furor-and-plagiarism-claims-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns \u2018with heavy heart\u2019 amid antisemitism furor and plagiarism claims \u2013 live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}