Valerie Richardson
Articles by Valerie Richardson
Missouri AG opens probe into Kansas City’s ‘retaliatory’ post doxxing Chiefs’ Harrison Butker
Kansas City apologized after posting information about NFL kicker Harrison Butker's residence on X in an apparent attempt to retaliate against the Pro Bowl athlete. But the state isn't willing to let bygones be bygones. Published May 16, 2024
University president on leave for ‘insubordination’ over deal with anti-Israel protesters
The president of Sonoma State University has been placed on leave for "insubordination" after unilaterally striking a deal with pro-Palestinian protesters that included an academic boycott of Israel. Published May 16, 2024
Biden’s National Park Service blocks Knights of Columbus’ Memorial Day Mass at Virginia cemetery
The same Biden administration that has allowed a migrant encampment on National Park Service land is drawing the line at the Knights of Columbus. Published May 16, 2024
California county to pay damages after library shutters Moms for Liberty event for ‘misgendering’
A California county has agreed to strengthen its free-speech policies and pay $70,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Moms for Liberty and other groups after a librarian shut down their women's sports forum for "misgendering" transgender athletes. Published May 15, 2024
What is a sorority sister? Appeals court takes up case over transgender pledge at Kappa Kappa Gamma
A half-dozen University of Wyoming sorority sisters took their fight over Kappa Kappa Gamma's transgender policy to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and they weren't alone. Published May 14, 2024
Male-born Oregon athlete to compete for girls’ state track title
Oregon teen Aayden Gallagher is a favorite to win a girls' high school state track-and-field title this week after smoking the competition during the season, and critics say that's because the sophomore runner is a biological male. Published May 13, 2024
‘Sacrilegious’: Bishops upbraid Biden for crossing himself at abortion rally
President Biden's decision to make a sign of the cross during a Florida abortion rights rally isn't sitting well with the Catholic Church's leadership. Published May 12, 2024
Anti-Israel Duke grads boo Jewish comedian Jerry Seinfeld, walk out of graduation speech
A few dozen pro-Palestinian students staged a graduation walkout Sunday at Duke University in protest of commencement speaker Jerry Seinfeld, a Jewish comedian and supporter of Israel. Published May 12, 2024
Kirk Cameron’s pro-adoption film ‘Lifemark’ seeks new life in U.S. market after scoring overseas
A pro-adoption movie starring Kirk Cameron has become a surprise international hit on Netflix, but it's not available on the streaming platform in the U.S., a split that may have its roots in the fraught abortion debate. Published May 12, 2024
‘Audacity’: Biden blasted for touting women’s sports after adding biological males to Title IX
President Biden's political foes pounced on him after he called on Americans to "support women's sports" after overhauling Title IX to include transgender women. Published May 10, 2024
Northwestern accused of caving to protesters as House opens antisemitism probe
Northwestern University's decision to cut a deal with pro-Palestinian student demonstrators may have created more problems than it solved. Published May 10, 2024
Ivy League loses another college president as Martha Pollack signals exit from Cornell
Cornell University President Martha Pollack will step down June 30 after seven years in the role, heading off conjecture about her departure amid campus protest turmoil by insisting the move was hers. Published May 9, 2024
Student sues school district over suspension for saying ‘illegal aliens,’ switches to homeschooling
A North Carolina student suspended for using the term "illegal aliens" in class has sued the school district, saying he was bullied and ostracized after being falsely "branded as a racist." Published May 9, 2024
Some Democrats break with Biden over withholding weapons to Israel
It goes without saying that President Biden's threat to withhold arms transfers to Israel infuriated Republicans, but even some Democrats are objecting to the decision. Published May 9, 2024
Christian singer Sean Feucht leads pro-Israel rally at USC on heels of Columbia firestorm
Wherever anti-Israel campus protesters are at their most chaotic, there also goes Sean Feucht. Published May 9, 2024
Not just colleges: Lawmakers call for heads to roll at K-12 schools beset by antisemitism
Leaders of some of the nation's leading school districts went before Congress to defend their records of combating rising K-12 antisemitism, but lawmakers were skeptical any of them would be making the honor roll. Published May 8, 2024
High school yearbook ripped for shrugging off Hamas attack as ‘what happened happened’
A Houston-area high school's yearbook drew outrage for publishing a one-sided account of the Israel-Hamas War that downplays the brutal Oct. 7 attack on Israeli civilians, saying that "what happened happened." Published May 7, 2024
Feminists accused of ‘selective outrage’ over muted reaction to Israeli women brutalized by Hamas
The Israeli women and girls raped and taken hostage by Hamas have never received the same international support as the #MeToo and #BringBackOurGirls campaigns, a double standard that one women's organization seeks to rectify. Published May 7, 2024
Biden condemns ‘ferocious surge of antisemitism’ on college campuses in rebuke to protesters
President Biden on Tuesday marked Holocaust Remembrance Day by delivering his most forceful condemnation of campus antisemitism to date, bowing to the mounting pressure for him to address rising anti-Israel protest chaos and harassment of Jewish students and faculty. Published May 7, 2024
MIT drops DEI-pledge requirements in hiring after concluding ‘they don’t work’
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has discontinued the use of required diversity, equity and inclusion statements in hiring, becoming the first top U.S. university to drop the ideological litmus tests on its own initiative after concluding that "they don't work." Published May 6, 2024
