
Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) used his time during the Senate Judiciary Committee questioning of Christine Blasey Ford to harshly criticize the lack of an FBI investigation of her sexual assault claims against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. “It’s up to the President of the United States, and his failure to ask for an FBI investigation,…
A Jewish woman who is a longtime federal contract worker has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct at “train rape” parties when they were both in high school, the third woman to level accusations against him in recent weeks. Julie Swetnick claims in a sworn affadavit that she was a victim of…
The Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in Florida once said that his student government election campaign at Harvard University was thwarted because he was “nailed to the cross” by the student newspaper, which he noted had a Jewish majority on staff. Chris King, an evangelical Christian, narrowly lost a race for president of Harvard’s undergraduate…
Google Maps is perhaps the most impressive cartographic endeavor in world history, with nearly the entire globe detailed down to the street level and available for free public perusal. Its latest update, last month, was praised for finally eliminating the Mercator Projection — the flat-pane system that distorts Greenland to falsely look bigger than Africa….
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh took to Fox News on Monday night to defend himself from allegations of sexual assault when he was in high school, claiming that he was a virgin “for many years” after leaving Yale University. But his former college classmate Stephen Kantrowitz, now an award-winning history professor at the University of…
Textbooks created as part of the Palestinian Authority’s new K-12 educational curriculum “are teaching Palestinian children that there can be no compromise” and “indoctrinat[e] for death and martyrdom,” according to an analysis by a watchdog group. The report, by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education, analyzed K-12 textbooks that were…
The campaign of Florida Sen. Bill Nelson said that they will return all contributions it received from the political action committee of former Sen. Al Franken, CNN reported Saturday. Federal Election Commission records show that Nelson, a Democrat running for reelection this November, received $10,000 from Franken’s Midwest Values PAC during this election cycle and…
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, has spoken over the past month for hours with investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller, ABC News reported Thursday. The interviews covered Trump’s financial and business dealings with Russia, as well as possible collusion during the 2016 presidential campaign, the network reported. ABC added that the meetings,…
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