The Pentagon unveiled a new overhaul of grooming standards to further ensure service members are ‘clean-shaven’ this week.  War Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops needing a medical exemption can retain facial hair for one year as long as they are following a plan to treat the condition. After that, they must remove facial hair or face separation.  “The Department must remain vigilant in maintaining the grooming...

The nation’s leading professors’ group defended faculty speech rights after the assassination of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk, but stopped short of condemning his killing. Rather, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), founded in 1915, called for leaders of universities to avoid “political pressure” to fire faculty members over comments made about the conservative powerhouse in the aftermath of his death. “The AAUP notes with...

The Justice Department plans to call a fresh lineup of witnesses Wednesday as the federal trial of Ryan Routh, accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf club in 2024, enters its eighth day. Prosecutors told the court they expect testimony from Ronnie Jay Oxendine, the man who allegedly sold Routh the rifle tied to the case, as well as multiple FBI...