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(03/21/17 7:43pm)
Fox News Channel senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano ’72 has been indefinitely sidelined from the network after making unverified claims that former President Barack Obama requested British intelligence wiretap Trump Tower. Napolitano has not spoken on the channel since March 16 and has been notably absent from the network’s coverage of hearings involving Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and FBI Director James Comey, according to the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.
(03/07/17 4:16am)
Ex-Barclays swaps trader Ryan Reich ’04 is currently being prosecuted by the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office for manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) for personal profit between June 2005 and September 2007, according to a trial update by BloombergQuint.
(02/26/17 3:48am)
“I do not have a left foot or a left hand,” said human rights activist and defector Ji Seong-Ho, who stood in front of an eager crowd of approximately 100 students.
(01/22/17 4:59pm)
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a strong response to yesterday’s inauguration, hundreds of thousands of marchers descended on the capital. Due to the crowd’s size, the march could not proceed as planned. Attendees instead gathered to hear artists, speakers, meet with each other, and march through city streets in a less organized fashion.
(01/22/17 5:01pm)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States shortly after noon on Friday, January 20.
(01/20/17 3:05pm)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President-elect Donald Trump welcomed supporters to inaugural festivities at the Make America Great Again welcome concert Thursday afternoon, Jan. 20. The festivities centered around themes of unity that speakers emphasized and reflections on the campaign.
(12/08/16 4:09am)
Darcy James Argue, conductor of the Princeton University Creative Large Ensemble, was nominated for a Grammy award. His album, tilted “Real Enemies,” was named a finalist in the “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album” category.
(12/06/16 4:29am)
Yale University released a report to its Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming after receiving demands to rename the residential college named after John C. Calhoun, a former U.S. Senator known for his support of slavery.
(11/30/16 5:01am)
New Jersey governor and ex officio University trustee Chris Christie has announced that he plans to finish his term, which ends in 2018, according to the New York Times. He criticized the media for continuing to speculate whether he will leave the state to serve in President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration. Despite his plan to finish his term, Christie has not ruled out continuing to serve in the Trump administration.
(11/30/16 4:22am)
Former University professor and current President of the University of Pennsylvania Amy Gutmann has had her contract extended to 2022, which will make her the longest-serving president in the school's history.
(11/23/16 11:54pm)
President-elect Donald Trump nominated Betsy DeVos P07 as the Secretary of Education for his administration.
(11/21/16 3:21am)
Benét Wilson is an aviation journalist based in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Aviation Queen LLC, a consulting and multimedia business that features Wilson’s writings on aviation and travel. She was a speaker in The Daily Princetonian’s panel on diversity in the newsroom, where we got to sit down with her to discuss her experiences in the media industry.
(11/17/16 4:20am)
Fifty-eight University students gathered in New York City on Tuesday, Nov. 15, to participate in a rally against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The purpose of the rally was to express solidarity with members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose only water source is threatened by the pipeline.
(11/14/16 7:24pm)
Author, journalist, and historian Webster Tarpley ’66 is currently engaged in libel suit with Melania Trump, wife of President-elect Donald Trump.
(11/14/16 7:17pm)
Professor of molecular biology and founder of the Princeton Election Consortium Samuel Wang devoured a bug Saturday during a live interview with CNN to make good on his promise in the event that president-elect Trump won over 240 electoral votes.
(11/15/16 7:08pm)
Three University affiliates have been associated with President-elect Donald Trump's White House transition team.
(10/04/16 7:29pm)
After a notable collegiate and professional basketball career, Brian Taylor ’84 has returned to Princeton to direct new mentorship programs between on campus groups and students from neighboring New Jersey towns. He sat down with the Daily Princetonian to talk about his experience as a student-athlete and a professional basketball player and what he is doing after his retirement.
(08/07/16 8:25pm)
The Princeton College Republicans are not taking a definitive position on whether to support the Republican Party’s presidential nominee Donald Trump in the general election at this time, according to a statement released to the Daily Princetonian by the group's president, Paul Draper ’18.
(08/04/16 6:14pm)
PHILADELPHIA— Democratic National Committee Vice Chair R.T. Rybak talked about how the Party might heal from a divisive former chair and trying primary season during a reading from his new book, “Pothole Confidential: My Life as Mayor of Minneapolis."In writing this book, Rybak said he “wanted to get real with people about public service and being a mayor.”Rybak is a journalist turned politician. He said that his experience in journalism informed how he worked during his mayoral administration.“Your job isn’t to pick a side, it’s to listen,” he said.After being elected for three terms as mayor, Rybak decided not to run again. He said that his mayoral mission was to try to be everywhere in the community. He added that he didn’t want to attend only positive events, such as construction projects and graduations -- he went to funerals and vigils too.As a mayor,Rybak had “consistently high approval ratings,” and he won both his reelection campaigns by a comfortable margin, according toNorth Star Politics.Rybak was the first mayor to endorse then-Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries. Because of his position as one of the five vice chairs of the DNC, he did not endorse this year’s nominee, Hillary Clinton, until later in the election cycle in order to preserve neutrality.“I actually think Hillary’s going to be a fantastic president,” Rybak said. “I would’ve loved to have supported her earlier.”Rybak added that his late endorsement of Clinton in favor of neutrality put him “at odds with the chair of the party.”Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former DNC chair, resigned in the wake of allegations stemming fromWikileaks’ email exposures thatshe, and the Party, failed to be neutral during the primary season.Rybak said that he thoughtWasserman Schultz“did a very poor job of creating the open process that we needed,” noting that the two had a “serious disagreement about that.”“I felt the more she tipped toward so obviously supporting Clinton, the more important it was for me, as a vice chair, to maintain neutrality,” Rybak said. “I’ve spent a lot of this week cleaning up the messes created by the poor choices made by the previous chair.”This week, Rybak said that he apologized to delegates and other Democrats for the Party’s mistakes and favoritism exposed in email exchanges by Wikileaks.Donna Brazile, a noted political strategist and longtime Democrat, is set to take her place as interim chair. Brazile became the first African American campaign manager for a major presidential campaign when she led Al Gore’s campaign in 2000.“I’ve worked with Donna [Brazile] as vice chair,” Rybak said. “She’s very fair and I think she’s a person who can also carry our message uniquely and phenomenally, so I’m very supportive of that.”Rybak said that although this leadership transitionis tough, the primary season was effective.“I’m thrilled that our party spent all this time in what was a deeply contested by ultimately very issues based campaign,” he said. “There were disagreements, but it wasn’t about the size of someone’s hands, or the size of something else.”Concerns about the party platform, first voiced by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, continued to inspire protests from Sanders delegates and other conventioneers.Party leaders have attempted to make the platform reflect this progressive swing of the party, withsome noting that this is the most progressive platform ever.“This is about Bernie Sanders, but also about much more,” Rybak said. “I feel that we’ve come through realigning in politics ... and that has been reflected in the evolution of the platform to be much more progressive.”Clinton clinched the nomination during roll call on July 26 at the DNC, becoming the first woman to win the nomination of a major party for president.Rybak is also currently the executive director of Generation Next, an organization dedicated closing the achievement gap.Thereading of Rybak’s book took place at 2 p.m on July 27thand was hosted by theNational Conference of Democratic Mayors.
(08/02/16 7:29am)
PHILADELPHIA—U.S. Congressional Representative Jared Polis '96 is the first openly gay man elected to Congress as well as one of its wealthiest members. He created successful businesses,founded charter schools andchaired the Colorado Board of Education. Polis talked with the 'Prince' during the Democratic National Convention about the University's influence on his career, Bernie Sanders supporters and Hillary Clinton's presidential bid.