Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
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By Aiden Pink
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Fast Forward Penn Law Professor Under Fire After Claiming Black Students Get Worse Grades
A professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School has been punished by her school after claiming in an online debate that African-American students get worse grades. Amy Wax, a tenured professor, made that claim last September in a recently-resurfaced conversation with Brown University economist Glenn Loury on the online platform Bloggingheads. “Here’s a very…
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Fast Forward Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Flew Parkland Victims’ Families To DC On Team Plane
Residents of Parkland, Florida who were affected by the mass school shooting there last month were flown to the “March for Our Lives” gun control rally in Washington, D.C. with the help of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Kraft provided the official team plane for the families of the 17 victims of the shooting,…
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Fast Forward FBI Raids Home Of White Supremacist Who Claimed He Trained Parkland Shooter
The FBI raided a home associated with a white supremacist who had claimed that the shooter behind last month’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida trained with his group before saying that his previous statement was a lie. Jordan Jereb was handcuffed and led away from his mother’s home in Tallahassee while federal, state and local…
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Fast Forward White Supremacist Flyers Posted At Rutgers University
The white supremacist group Identity Evropa posted flyers earlier this week on the campus of Rutgers University, which has one of the biggest campus Jewish populations in the country. The posters included images of their logo, sayings like “Our Generation, Our Future, Our Last Chance” and their website information. Images of the posters were shared…
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Fast Forward Israeli Hackers Offered Foreign Leaders’ Emails To Cambridge Analytica
Israeli hackers accessed the private email accounts of two heads of state and offered information to the data analytics team that worked on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, The Guardian reported Wednesday. The British data firm Cambridge Analytica, which has used information pulled from Facebook users to consult on political campaigns around the world, was working…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Denier Wins Republican Nomination In Illinois Congressional Race
A Holocaust denier is officially the Republican nominee for a congressional race in Chicago after no other candidates qualified for the primary ballot. Arthur Jones, a 70-year-old former leader of the American Nazi Party, ran unopposed in Tuesday’s primary. His campaign website includes a section called “Holocaust?” in which he calls the genocide of six…
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Fast Forward Conspiracist Says He Was Attacked By Man He Hired To Analyze Seth Rich’s Death
A conservative activist in suburban Washington, D.C. is recovering from being shot and hit by a car, allegedly by a former Marine he hired to investigate the death of former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. Jack Burkman told The Washington Post that he had hired Kevin Doherty to help him build a psychological profile…
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Fast Forward Politician Behind Iceland Circumcision Ban Bill Admits She Didn’t Consult Jews
The politician behind a bill in Iceland that would ban circumcision on children younger than 18 admitted that she didn’t consult Jewish and Muslim groups who would be affected by the ban. “I didn’t think it was necessary to consult,” Silja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir, a member of parliament from the Progressive Party, told The Independent on…
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