Author: Martin Rodriguez

Re-elected Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel holds a gavel while speaking at the committee’s winter meeting in Dana Point, Calif., Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Jae C. Hong DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — Ronna McDaniel has become the longest serving leader of the Republican National Committee since the Civil War. But now, she must confront a modern-day civil war within the GOP. Frustrated Republicans from state capitals to Capitol Hill to the luxury Southern California hotel where RNC members gathered this week are at odds over how to reverse six years of election disappointments. And while there…

FILE – Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad gestures as she speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in New York. The Justice Department has charged three men in a plot to kill the Iranian American author and activist who has spoken out against human rights abuses in Iran. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the charges on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. Though authorities didn’t identify the alleged target by name, Alinejad confirmed to The Associated Press that she was the target of the plot. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)Mary Altaffer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A company co-founded by Vanderbilt University professors has received a special designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a breakthrough device. The designation streamlines the regulatory process for certain medical devices that provide more effective treatment or diagnosis of life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases. In this case, the designation is for a technology developed by Nashville-based EndoTheia that increases the flexibility and usefulness of standard endoscopes, according to a news release from the school. Robert J. Webster III, a professor of mechanical engineering and associate professor of medicine and urology, is also EndoTheia president.…

Washington, D.C. – U.S. News & World Report, the global leader in education rankings, released statements about the upcoming Best Law Schools rankings in separate messages to prospective students and deans of law schools. The letters reiterate U.S. News’ commitment to continuing the publication of the Best Law Schools rankings and performing the important data journalism required for that work. U.S. News also shared outcomes of a multi-week engagement between law school deans and its data journalists specializing in the law school rankings. “U.S. News & World Report and its journalists have an important job – to inform the public,…

A small minority of families have always sought alternatives to traditional public schools in the U.S. But the COVID-19 pandemic, during which many schools were closed for a year or more, led some parents to explore other options, from private schools to microschools to homeschooling, and many families have not returned to the public system. One of the most radical departures from traditional schooling is an approach known as “unschooling.” What Is Unschooling? Unschooling is an educational philosophy that relies on a child’s innate curiosity and desire to learn. In families that practice unschooling, students do not attend school and do not follow any set homeschool curriculum.…