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What recent decision did the Pentagon make regarding Harvard University?
The Pentagon says it's cutting ties with Harvard University. Officials are accusing the school of promoting anti-American ideals. NPR's Shondalee Stuster has more.
Defense Secretary Pete Hexef says the Pentagon is ending all professional military education, certificate programs, and fellowships with Harvard University. Heksev, who received a master's degree from Harvard but later denounced it, said in a video posted to social media that many officers received, quote, radical ideologies that do not improve our fighting ranks.
For too long, this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class. Instead, too many of our officers came back looking too much like Harvard.
HEXEF says service members currently enrolled at the university will be able to finish their studies. Shondalese Duster, NPR News.
In a message posted on social media Saturday, Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie told the people who kidnapped her mother the family will pay for her return.
We received your message and we understand. We beg you now. to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.
The message she references was delivered to a local television station. 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona home earlier this week. Police say traces of blood on the home's porch were from Guthrie. So far, they say they have no suspects in the apparent abduction. The extremist Islamic State group has taken responsibility for a suicide bombing that hit a mosque in the Pakistani capital. More than 30 people were killed in the attack and dozens of others were wounded. NPR's Dia Hadid has our reports.
The group said in an Arabic language statement that guards posted outside the Shiite mosque in Islamabad tried to stop the bomber from entering, but he shot them before detonating his explosives in a crowd of worshippers. It was the second blast to strike the Pakistani capital in months and it was the deadliest since 2008, reviving fears from a time when militants frequently struck Pakistani cities. The Interior Minister Mohsen Naqvi says they've arrested four people in relation to the attack and says the bomber trained in Afghanistan. Naqvi also blamed neighbouring India, accusing it of funding those militants. India rejects those claims. Diya Hadid, NPR News, Mumbai.
The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has been open for the past several days, but data from the United Nations shows that just 36 medical patients have been allowed to enter into Egypt for treatment. Officials say almost 20,000 people are waiting for medical care, and Palestinians returning to Gaza say they received harsh treatment from Israeli authorities. You're listening to NPR News. The Louvre Museum is indefinitely postponing the selection of an architecture firm to design a major expansion there. MPS Chloe Veltman reports that the decision comes just days ahead of the jury's scheduled meeting to vote on a winning proposal.
France's Le Figaro newspaper, which first reported the postponement, said selection committee president Marc Guillaume sent a letter informing the rest of the jury of the open-ended delay. It was just last summer that the Louvre sought pitches from global architecture firms to design a new entrance, expanded exhibition spaces and a dedicated room for the Mona Lisa. In his speech announcing the roughly $800 million expansion just over a year ago, French President Emmanuel Macron talked about his vision to rethink, restore and enlarge the world's most visited museum.
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