WATCHDOG: How universities are rebranding DEI to skirt Trump’s crackdown
As universities across the country have been accused of trying to hide their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts to avoid federal scrutiny, Fox News Digital spoke to a leading parents’ rights activist about how serious the problem is and what can be done about it. “I look at… the responses to the Trump administration and the executive orders falling into three buckets,” Nicole Neily, founder and president of the nonpartisan grassroots organization Defending Education, told Fox News Digital about the continuation of DEI activities despite the Trump administration’s efforts to eliminate it. Neily explained, “The first bucket are the proud resisters. I put Princeton, Harvard, schools like that in that category, where they’re just going to, you know, ‘hashtag resist’ and do their thing. The second bucket is, I think it’s the biggest category, and I think they’re the ones that are trying to put lipstick on a pig. They are renaming the departments. The DEI department is now the ‘belonging department.’ The coordinator, the DEI dean, is now compliance dean or something like that. But those people are doing the same damn thing and just trying to wait the Trump administration out.” Fox News Digital has extensively reported on schools in the first two buckets as defined by Neily, including at Washington University in St. Louis, where one of the nation’s top medical schools was accused of moving the DEI office to a restricted floor rather than close it. CLICK HERE FOR MORE CAMPUS RADICALS COAST TO COAST Earlier this month, Princeton University was hit with a scathing federal complaint over a DEI agenda that allegedly involved female students sharing “gender-neutral” restrooms with gaps in the stalls, as well as graduations segregated by gender identity. At the University of Utah and University of Virginia, Fox News Digital reported on staffers being caught on hidden camera explaining their efforts to continue DEI efforts by simply rebranding or renaming them. “The third category are the schools that actually want to comply in good faith,” Neily told Fox News Digital. “I think a lot of schools, a lot of administrators, got pretty frustrated with the excesses of the DEI movement, and they’re secretly relieved that they now have a little bit of air cover to wind those programs back. And they might hand wring and do a little performative ‘this is the orange man’s fault,’ but at the end of the day, I think they really are relieved.” Neily told Fox News Digital that the “second bucket” is the “biggest and most challenging category.” She said she was recently at a university board conference where speakers on a DEI panel were openly calling for “inclusivity work” to be continued because the Trump administration “only cares about” Ivy League schools and “they can’t sue us all.” UNIVERSITY DROPS JOB POSTING AFTER DEI REQUIREMENT EXPOSED, PROFESSOR SAYS ‘I WOULD NOT BE HIRED’ TODAY “To me, that demonstrates real mens rea, which is Latin for a guilty mind,” Neily said. “I think that shows that these people are the real evildoers and those are the ones where I think, obviously, the Trump administration has spent a lot of time over the past few months going after Harvard, going after Columbia, like the real bad actors that are out there trying to, you know that clearly have to be cleaned up. But I think that there is a much more significant and long-term effort to uproot and eradicate the DEI that is just trying to hide in plain sight. And I think that’s a really, really important mission.” Defending Education recently sent a letter, first reported by Fox News Digital, to elected officials in all 50 states calling for a top-to-bottom audit of state laws at the K-12 level to ensure that no loopholes are being exploited, allowing schools to continue DEI efforts. Combating DEI at all levels of education will require a “whole of government” approach, Neily told Fox News Digital, adding that it will be important to not let administrators “whitewash their records” or pass the blame onto someone else for policies they have supported. Additionally, Neily expressed optimism that the tide is turning against DEI in terms of popularity. “I think we’re at a moment where there is kind of a perfect storm taking place in academia. This incoming freshman class this year is the largest freshman class that American universities will ever have… Clearly, we have seen polling over the past couple years demonstrate a massive loss in public confidence in the institutions of higher education at a time when costs are through the roof, the return on investment for sending your child to some of these schools is horrible. So I think a lot of people are really rethinking, is this the correct track for me, period?” Neily said. UNIVERSITY DOCTOR RESIGNS AFTER UNEARTHED AUDIO EXPOSES HIM BOASTING ABOUT SKIRTING ANTI-DEI LAWS “We also have fewer international students coming in, thanks to the efforts of the Trump administration, and so I think what we’re gonna see over the next several years is a number of universities that actually start to close. And how do those schools differentiate themselves in the marketplace?” Neily said she has witnessed students “vote with their feet” and choose to attend schools that don’t promote “woke” ideologies, particularly in the South as students are looking for a “proper college experience.” Earlier this year, Fox News Digital reported that several Southern states banded together to establish their own accrediting body for higher education in order to “upend the monopoly of the woke accreditation cartels.” “They don’t wanna be surrounded by a bunch of pearl-clutching Victorian scolds that are going to reprimand them for using the wrong pronouns and for not wearing masks in the middle of the winter, and so we’re watching people and some of those state schools in the South now, realizing, OK, we can get more out-of-state students coming in, paying higher out-of-state tuition,” Neily said. “But it’s also changing and altering what our campus life is like, and so we’re
Why have BBC bosses resigned over a Trump speech edit?
The head of the UK’s British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and a top news executive resigned from the organisation on Sunday after a memo criticising the editing of a 2021 speech by US President Donald Trump shortly before protesters stormed the US Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021, was leaked. The BBC said Director-General Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness had chosen to step down after the memo became public. The memo was from ex-adviser Michael Prescott, a former journalist who was an independent consultant to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Board for three years before leaving in June. He claimed that editors of a 2024 BBC Panorama documentary had spliced two parts of Trump’s speech together so it appeared that he had actively encouraged the Capitol Hill riots of January 6, 2021, which followed his 2020 election defeat. Trump responded to the pair’s resignation on Sunday night, calling Davie and Turness “very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a presidential election”, in a post on his Truth Social platform. Davie said he took “ultimate responsibility” for mistakes made, and had decided to resign after “reflecting on the very intense personal and professional demands of managing this role over many years in these febrile times”. What is at the centre of this? The resignations of Davie and Turness followed controversy over a BBC Panorama documentary called “Trump: A Second Chance?”, which was broadcast one week before the 2024 US presidential election. Advertisement A clip from the programme appears to show two different parts of Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech joined together into one sequence. In the episode, Trump is shown as saying: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.” But according to a transcript from Trump’s comments that day, he said: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.” Nearly an hour later, Trump then used the phrase “we fight like hell”, but not in reference to the protesters at the Capitol. “We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” he said. Who are Tim Davie and Deborah Turness? Tim Davie became director-general of the BBC in September 2020. He was responsible for overseeing the organisation’s editorial, operational and creative work. He previously led BBC Studios for seven years and worked at companies including Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo. In an email to staff on Sunday, Davie said quitting the job after five years “is entirely my decision”. He said he was “working through exact timings with the Board to allow for an orderly transition to a successor over the coming months”. Meanwhile, Deborah Turness had been the CEO of BBC News since 2022, leading a team of around 6,000 employees broadcasting to almost half a billion people around the world. She was previously CEO of ITN and president of NBC News. Over the weekend, Turness said that the controversy over the Trump documentary “has reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC – an institution that I love. As the CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, the buck stops with me”. “In public life, leaders need to be fully accountable, and that is why I am stepping down,” she said in a note to staff. “While mistakes have been made, I want to be absolutely clear recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong.” David Yelland, former editor of the Sun newspaper, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Monday that Davie and Turness were the victims of a “coup”. However, both they and the BBC deny this. The chief executive of BBC News, Deborah Turness, speaks to the media outside BBC Broadcasting House after she and Director-General Tim Davie resigned following accusations of bias at the British broadcaster, including in the way it edited a speech by US President Donald Trump, in London, UK, on November 10, 2025 [Jack Taylor/Reuters] How has the White House responded? The incident prompted criticism of the BBC by Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, who described the corporation over the weekend as “100 percent fake news” and a “propaganda machine”. Advertisement For his part, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform: “The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught “doctoring” my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th”. He added that “very dishonest people” had “tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election… On top of everything else, they are from a Foreign Country, one that many consider our Number One Ally. What a terrible thing for democracy!” What else has the BBC been accused of? Prescott’s leaked memo did not only refer to the Panorama editing of Trump’s speech. It also focused criticism on a number of other areas of the BBC’s work, such as its coverage of transgender issues and racism – which he said were “one-sided” and “ill-researched” – but most notably its coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza. Prescott accused the BBC of anti-Israel bias within the BBC Arabic service, claiming that contributors over-emphasised stories that were critical of Israel. He also accused the wider corporation of “misrepresenting” the number of women and children killed in Gaza and the issue of Palestinian starvation in the besieged enclave. The former BBC adviser said he had sent the memo in “despair at inaction by the BBC Executive” over these and other issues. Charles Moore, former editor of the Daily Telegraph, a right-wing broadsheet newspaper in the UK, accused the BBC of “the most extraordinary degree of systemic bias, particularly in BBC Arabic” in its coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza. On general news, he told the Today programme, “it’s always [reporting] from a sort
Millions endure power cuts in Ukraine as Russia strikes more energy sites
Ukraine says European allies can give up some of their Patriot missile systems now and get future deliveries. By News Agencies Published On 10 Nov 202510 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Most regions of Ukraine are undergoing scheduled power outages amid a new wave of attacks on energy sites by Russian drones and missiles. Ukrenergo, the state-run electricity transmission systems operator in Ukraine, said the blackouts will last at least until the end of Monday as repairs are conducted on infrastructure damaged over the weekend and demand remains high as the onset of winter approaches. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list The Poltava and Kharkiv regions are suffering from a deficit of high-voltage capacity after damage to their power transmission lines while the areas of Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Kyiv and other central and northern regions have been affected as well. According to Ukraine’s military, Russian forces used two air-launched ballistic missiles, five surface-to-air guided missiles and 67 drones, including those of Iranian design, during their attacks overnight into Monday. The Ukrainian army did not report shooting down any of the missiles, but it said 52 of the drones were intercepted and the remaining 15 conducted strikes on nine locations. Russia has maintained its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure as United States-led diplomatic efforts to end the war make little progress. Ukraine has also been hitting Russian oil and fuel infrastructure in a stated effort to disrupt resources going to the front lines. An explosion rocked Russia’s port town of Tuapse on the Black Sea overnight after Ukrainian forces launched sea drones towards the major oil terminal and refinery in the town. No casualties were reported. Traffic moves through the city centre of Kharkiv, Ukraine, without electricity after critical civil infrastructure was hit by Russian drone and missile attacks on November 8, 2025 [Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Reuters] Russia’s Ministry of Defence announced on Monday that four naval drones were destroyed near the port in the northeastern Black Sea. Advertisement It added that its air defences shot down six US-made HIMARS rockets and 124 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles. Ukraine wants Patriots from Europe While calling for tougher sanctions and asset freezes to punish Russia, Ukraine is also looking to buy more arms. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that Ukraine would like to order 25 Patriot air defence systems from US weapons makers as it tries to fend off Russian attacks at the brink of winter. Zelenskyy acknowledged that the missile systems are expensive and such a large order could take years to manufacture. But he suggested that European countries could give their Patriots to Ukraine and await replacements, stressing that “we would not like to wait.” Ukraine is also advancing with an internal drive with a stated aim of weeding out corruption in the energy sector. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau announced on Monday that it was conducting searches in cooperation with a specialised anticorruption judicial office in premises connected to Tymur Mindich, a former business partner of the president. Mindich, who reportedly fled before the searches, is coowner of Zelenskyy’s Kvartal 95 production company. The Anti-Corruption Bureau said the searches are in relation to a “high-level criminal organisation in the energy and defence sectors” that engaged in money laundering and illegal enrichment. Adblock test (Why?)
US claims it hit two boats ‘carrying narcotics’ in Pacific, killing six
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth says attacks take place in international waters amid mounting criticism against US campaign. Published On 10 Nov 202510 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share The United States has carried out another set of military strikes against what it says are drug boats in international waters headed to the country. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said on Monday that the US military targeted two vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Sunday, killing six people. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list “These vessels were known by our intelligence to be associated with illicit narcotics smuggling, were carrying narcotics, and were transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route in the Eastern Pacific,” he wrote in a social media post. “Both strikes were conducted in international waters, and three male narco-terrorists were aboard each vessel. All six were killed. No US forces were harmed.” The administration of President Donald Trump has faced mounting criticism over such attacks, including accusations of violating domestic and international law. But Washington appears to be stepping up the campaign. Sunday’s deadly double attack was the fourth this month. Previous strikes in the Pacific and Caribbean Sea killed at least eight people, according to US authorities. The Trump administration started targeting boats in the Caribbean in September and later expanded its military push to the Pacific Ocean. The US has carried out 18 strikes on vessels so far, killing dozens of people. Last month, United Nations rights chief Volker Turk said the US attacks have no justification under international law. “These attacks – and their mounting human cost – are unacceptable,” Turk said. “The US must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats, whatever the criminal conduct alleged against them.” Advertisement The US has described the attacks as “counterterrorism” operations after having designated drug cartels as “terrorists”. “Under President Trump, we are protecting the homeland and killing these cartel terrorists who wish to harm our country and its people,” Hegseth said on Monday. Other than grainy footage showing the strikes, the Trump administration has not provided concrete proof that the vessels targeted were carrying drugs. Trump himself has previously joked that fishermen are now afraid to operate in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela. Critics have questioned why US authorities would not monitor the boats and intercept them when they enter the country’s territorial waters instead of extrajudicially executing the suspects. The strikes have sparked regional tensions, particularly with Venezuela, with Trump accusing its president, Nicolas Maduro, of links to “narcoterrorists”. The ramped-up US military campaign near Venezuela has raised speculation that Washington may be preparing for conflict in the oil-rich South American country. This month, Trump suggested that war with Venezuela is unlikely but said Maduro’s days are numbered. Adblock test (Why?)
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Delhi Red Fort Blast: Union HM Amit Shah gives details of the car explosion, ‘a blast occurred in a…’; Reaches spot, WATCH
Delhi Car Explosion/Red Fort Blast: After a major car explosion in Delhi caused blast in nearby cars around Red Fort, 13 people have been killed and dozens have been injured. Home Minister Amit Shah arrived at the spot and met several injured at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital. Speaking to ANI, Amit Shah said, “This evening, around 7 pm, a blast occurred in a Hyundai i20 car at the Subhash Marg traffic signal near the Red Fort in Delhi. The blast injured some pedestrians and damaged some vehicles. Preliminary reports indicate that some people have lost their lives.”