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• A UCLA political science professor threatened to resign from her leadership role at the university’s research center for international relations if CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss is allowed to deliver an annual journalism lecture named for Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter murdered by an Islamic terror group for being Jewish. Code Pink, a “feminist” anti-Israel activist group, launched a “UCLA: Don’t Platform Bari Weiss” pressure campaign. Weiss’s team withdrew from the event, citing security concerns, but her address may be rescheduled. Students would benefit both from hearing Weiss’s thoughts and from the professor’s departure. Win-win!

• Not long after she left public service, Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler shared with Jeffrey Epstein non-public information about a Secret Service prostitution scandal that unfolded during her tenure, Bloomberg reported. Recall that Ruemmler, who recently said she will leave her post as Goldman Sachs’s chief legal counsel, but not until late June, said that Epstein, to whom she signed emails “xoxo,” was merely a “business referral source.” Epstein also sought Ruemmler’s advice as he attempted to stop a modeling scout who helped him groom and import foreign women from cooperating with U.S. prosecutors, per the Wall Street Journal.

• During the first meeting of President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, Trump said he will decide whether to attack Iran “in the next probably 10 days.” Recall that last June, the president, who cherishes the element of surprise, set a two-week timeframe for negotiations but proceeded with Operation Midnight Hammer 48 hours later.

• As the Trump administration demands Hamas disarm, the terror outfit is “cementing its hold over Gaza by placing loyalists in key government roles, collecting taxes and paying salaries,” Reuters reported.

• In a blow to “moderate” Democratic governor Abigail Spanberger, a Virginia judge issued a ruling that “stops election officials from carrying out” the redistricting referendum Spanberger has championed. The judge “wrote in the order that it was highly likely the referendum process violated commonwealth law and the state constitution,” according to Roll Call.

Happy Friday, our whole lineup is below.

1. Inside Al Jazeera’s Style Guide, Which Forbids Reporters From Calling ISIS a ‘Terrorist’ Organization

2. Dem Rep. Stacey Plaskett Visited Epstein at Office He Used To Scam Virgin Islands Government out of Hundreds of Millions of Dollars, Records Show

3. NFL’s Chicago Bears May Bolt to Pro-Growth Indiana

4. UCLA Professor Threatens To Resign Leadership Role if Bari Weiss Gives Journalism Lecture

5. Trump Says Iran Attack Decision Will Come ‘in the Next Probably 10 Days’

6. Yale Vows to Investigate Anti-Semitic Graffiti On Campus Quads

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