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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY ) is being showered with praise from both sides of the aisle after she grilled the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT over school policies about hate speech on their respective campuses — specifically related to calls for genocide aimed at Jewish students.

Video of the exchanges where the New York Republican demanded answers from new Harvard President Claudine Gay and Penn President Elizabeth Magill went viral, in no small part because Stefanik repeatedly posted the clips on her social media accounts. They have led to near-universal praise from Republicans and Democrats, including newly elected Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) who called out Magill saying her vague answers showed a “failure of leadership.”

According to the New York Times, the Harvard-educated Stefanik already has what can be generously described as a "fraught" relationship with her alma mater due to her support of Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection and her defense of him, as a member of the House Republican leadership, during his two impeachments. That in turn led the university to cut ties with her.

In a report focused on the House Republicans’ plan to vote on a resolution to open an official impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy told viewers there is no evidence of impeachable offenses.

“The House Oversight Committee has been at this for years, and they have so far not been able to provide any concrete evidence that Joe Biden personally profited from his son Hunter’s overseas business, but they are going to try again with this impeachment inquiry set to start next week,” Doocy, who often criticizes President Biden in White House press briefings, said Friday on Fox News Business.

During an appearance in pop star Moby's podcast, Hunter Biden claimed that his father's opponents are trying to "kill" him by forcing a relapse of his drug addiction, The Guardian reported.

And he theorizes that it's a scheme to sink his father's presidency.

A hybrid Jewish-Japanese restaurant in the Brooklyn's hipster Williamsburg neighborhood was set on fire in what cops are investigating as a hate crime, The New York Post reported.

Police suspect the Nov. 18 arson was antisemitic. In the video, the man can be seen setting two window tarps on fire that police say were emblazoned with the Star of David.

A white supremacist gang leader threw a tantrum in court this week after he was sentenced to life in prison for the kidnapping and beating of a former girlfriend.

Law and Crime News reports that 31-year-old white supremacist gang leader Tyler Clark repeatedly interrupted his one-time girlfriend in court this week as she was delivering a victim impact statement.

The District of Columbia court clerk set a deadline for later this month for filing key paperwork in Donald Trump's effort to halt his prosecution.

Judge Tanya Chutkan denied his motion to dismiss charges filed against him by special counsel Jack Smith, and the court clerk then set a Dec. 26 deadline for his attorneys to file forms needed for him to appeal that ruling.

The monthly jobs report released Friday is being heralded as “robust,” “upbeat,” and “stronger than expected” as unemployment dropped to a near-50-year low (3.7%) while the economy added another 199,000 jobs.

“It’s the little engine that could, and this little locomotive keeps a chugging along,” declared professor of economics and public policy scholar Justin Wolfers.

As part of a deep dive into what to expect in the 2024 presidential election, one noted Democratic strategist claimed the outcome between presumptive nominees Donald Trump and President Joe Biden could hinge on just 400,000 voters.

According to the report from the Washington Post, the continued use of the Electoral College means that the few remaining swing states will have an outsized impact on the results of a national election.

Donald Trump's allies are developing new methods to potentially steal the 2024 election after removing a safeguard in several Republican-led states, according to a report.

Nine GOP-led states have withdrawn from the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, after Trump allies targeted the multi-state database with conspiracy theories, and prominent election denier Cleta Mitchell has played a central role in persuading them to move away from that bipartisan security effort and instead use an open-source EagleAI software, reported Rolling Stone.

Former President Donald Trump made a bold prediction about winning a deep-blue state in next year's presidential election — even though he got positively blown out there on two previous occasions.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump crowed about his chances in the Garden State while announcing that Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) would be chairing his campaign there.

Despite a ruling in Colorado that found Donald Trump can remain on the 2024 ballot even though his actions on Jan. 6 effectively made him an insurrectionist, a law professor from the University of Notre Dame has filed a legal brief citing past cases that blocked presidential candidates from the vote, Newsweek reported.

Derek T. Muller cited the 1968 case of former Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver who ran for president for the Peace and Freedom Party. California excluded Cleaver from the ballot because he was below the 35-year-old minimum age limit for the presidency — despite arguments that he would reach the age while in the post.