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A star academic behind an influential but unsound study arguing that black infants die more often with white doctors has for years been privately beleaguered by plagiarism charges from her own subordinates and will soon depart her university, leaving the multimillion-dollar antiracism center she founded in jeopardy. University of Minnesota Prof. Rachel Hardeman’s rise to academic superstardom in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis included major media coverage of her research on racial bias and maternal and infant mortality, a tenured position, and recognition as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people.

CNN host Jessica Dean asked Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna on Tuesday whether former President Joe Biden delivering a public speech for the first time since leaving office would actually help his party. Biden is slated for a Tuesday evening speech in Chicago that will cover the significance of Social Security, according to The Washington Post. Khanna, on “CNN News Central,” declined to answer whether Biden’s speech would be “helpful,” but expressed hope that the former president would advocate “for due process of the law” and pivoted to criticize President Donald Trump’s administration for deporting alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.

Dr. Mae Jemison, a former National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut, derailed an interview with CBS host Vladimir Duthiers on Monday after he used the word “mankind.” Duthiers asked Jemison to explain why Blue Origin’s eleventh space tourism launch, which carried several celebrities, benefited “mankind,” which prompted the former astronaut to demand that he say “humankind” instead. Duthiers could be heard apologizing during the interview for using a commonly used term and corrected himself to say “humankind.”

ESPN host Stephen A. Smith defended Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan Sunday, telling “This Week” guest host Jonathan Karl she was working for her state. President Donald Trump praised Whitmer, a potential candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 2028 presidential election, during a Wednesday meeting in the Oval Office, saying she did an “an excellent job” and describing her as “a great person,” Fox News reported. Smith said Whitmer’s critics were “ridiculous” during a wide-ranging interview on “This Week.”

A new photo of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D-Mich.) surprise visit to the Oval Office emerged in a Saturday New York Times report showcasing the lawmaker covering her face while President Trump spoke to the press. The Michigan Democrat said she was unexpectedly whisked into the room for the president’s order signing on Wednesday ahead of a scheduled closed door meeting. The two were set to discuss tariffs and opportunities to invest in Michigan’s defense assets, including the Selfridge Air National Guard Base. “The governor was surprised that she was brought into the Oval Office during President Trump’s press conference without any notice of the subject matter,” ...

Let’s get one thing straight: Jasmine Crockett isn’t ‘ghetto.’ She’s not from ‘the streets.’ She’s not the hood-savvy voice of the everyday black American struggling to survive in an America where Democrats have failed them. No, Jasmine Crockett is a fraud. And what’s worse? She’s a carefully packaged fraud, hand-picked and propped up by the Democratic Party to sell one of the most insidious lies of all: that this caricature of blackness — loud, ratchet, grammatically incorrect — is somehow authentic. Let me be clear: the problem isn’t that Jasmine Crockett is educated....

Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy had to fight off a bird during a live appearance discussing a dispute with Mexico and tariffs on “Fox and Friends” Friday. China announced it was increasing tariffs on American imports to the Communist nation to 125% on Friday, according to The Associated Press. Doocy was reporting on both the tariffs and President Donald Trump’s actions in a water dispute with Mexico when the bird landed on his head in the middle of the segment. “Peter, I appreciate–” “Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade said when the bird, which appeared to be a pigeon, landed on Doocy’s head...

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) has declared a state of emergency for Albuquerque, ordering the National Guard to help combat crime in the state’s largest city. “The safety of New Mexicans is my top priority,” Lujan Grisham said in a statement. “This partnership represents our commitment to addressing the fentanyl crisis and juvenile crime with every resource at our disposal.” Lujan Grisham, a former member of Congress who is term limited, said the New Mexico National Guard will assist Albuquerque police with essential duties so the city’s law enforcement officers “can focus on what they do best — keeping our communities safe.”

President Donald Trump’s tariff plan appears focused around a simple tenet for any manufacturer: Produce in the United States if you want unfettered access to U.S. markets. If that’s the demand of this moment, Hyundai Motor Group of South Korea looks in some ways like a brilliant strategist. Back in 2022, months before then-President Joe Biden approved credits for buying electric vehicles, and long before the sharp rise in tariffs that President Trump has announced recently, Hyundai signed the biggest economic development deal in Georgia’s history. This new $7.6 billion EV factory broke ground just over two years ago in a massive pine grove just west of Savannah, Georgia.

A detailed analysis of a full-sized digital scan of the Titanic has revealed new insight into the doomed liner's final hours. The exact 3D replica shows the violence of how the ship ripped in two as it sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912 - 1,500 people lost their lives in the disaster. The scan provides a new view of a boiler room, confirming eye-witness accounts that engineers worked right to the end to keep the ship's lights on.

A former federal bureaucrat and an executive for a green nonprofit have been arrested and charged for allegedly vandalizing Teslas in Washington, D.C., according to The Washington Post. Justin Fisher, 49, and his wife, Emily, 50, have been arrested and respectively charged with eight and five counts of defacing private property in connection to their alleged vandalism of Tesla vehicles in and around the capital’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, according to the Post.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has fired one of his deputies for taking a "lavish" trip to Antarctica with his wife during Nowruz, the Persian new year. The president's office described Shahram Dabiri's trip as "unjustifiable and unacceptable given the ongoing economic challenges" in Iran. A picture of Dabiri and his wife posing in front of MV Plancius, which was bound for Antarctica, circulated widely on social media and caused outrage in Iran.