did the dartmouth review. what got you interested in that experience? >> i wanted to get involved in the conservative community at dartmouth and the christian community as well. dartmouth is about as secular and liberal a college as you can possibly be. i love dartmouth but we do not agree on everything. i wanted to get as involved as we could. it has a great history. we have had a lot of fun. i really enjoyed it. we stirred the pot a little bit on campus. ruffled some feathers but had a lot of fun doing it. >> banking was part of your experience. tell us about that. >> after graduating i worked in several years, first as an investment banker and then an equity analyst at a hedge fund for several years. got to experience the private sector. got to work long hours. got to see a little bit of what the real world was like, how global financial system works and what is the plumbing of the global economy. i think it provided a strong foundation for a general understanding of how the world works. >> you are the foun

i love dear old dartmouth but we don't agree on everything. i worked in finance for several years as an investment banker, than as an equity analyst at a hedge fund. i got to see a little bit of what the real world was like, how the global financial system works, the plumbing of the global economy. it provided a really strong foundation not only for what i'm doing now before a general understanding of how this world works. >> you are the founder of a website known as d.c. inquiry. for those that don't is, what is d.c. inquirer and what's it about? >> it's a conservatives the new site i found it a few years ago when i started it specifically to go to bat for president trump in good, strong conservatives in the media. i recognized, unfortunately, we've got a pretty biased media in the united states. one side of the aisle is pretty well covered. you've got cnn and msnbc on the new york times and the wall street journal, occasionally. often times you wake up in the morning and see that these news outlets are printing frictionally the same headline

more than 1300 employees are supported by federal grants at dartmouth. the vast majority of these are supported by the national institutes of health. the job loss, the economic impact that will result from this decision will be devastating. and sadly, once these jobs are gone and the researchers leave, there's no going back because they're going some place else. they're going overseas. but we unfortunately know that rfk supports this decision because he has publicly supported gutting nih staff and research. and if robert kennedy is confirmed, i fear he will do nothing to push back or to reverse these reckless decisions. the secretary of hhs also holds immense power over ensuring that women in our country have the ability to access reproductive health services, including abortion. interestingly, i thought this was something that rfk and i agreed on. but now i'm not clear what he supports. he used to proudly say that he was pro-choice. but since being nominated, that belief seems to have disappeared overnight. the only thing i think he truly believes is in

education recovery scorecard was developed by researchers from stanford university, harvard and dartmouth college. its latest snapshot finds that federal pandemic relief did help contribute to academic recovery, particularly money spent on summer school and tutoring. the oakland unified district is among those that recovered in reading, but they say overall high rates of absenteeism, especially in low income districts, is impeding full recovery. a new bill in the state assembly would expand fee waivers for community college students to part time students, so right now, only full time students can benefit from the california college promise program. the bill would waive fees for part time students for up to two academic years. officials say nearly two thirds of the state's 1.9 million community college students are considered part time. the bill was introduced by silicon valley assembly member patrick aaron. oakland city union workers who have received layoff notices held a rally at city hall today. they say job cuts will have a harmful impact on public services. >> save our services, save

education recovery scorecard was developed by researchers from stanford university, harvard, and dartmouth. its latest snapshot finds that federal pandemic relief did help contribute to academic recovery, especially money spent on summer school and tutoring. the oakland unified school district is among those that recovered in reading, but they say overall high rates of absenteeism, especially in low income districts, is impeding full recovery. a bill in the state assembly would expand fee waivers for community college students to part time students. right now, only full time students can benefit from the california college promise program. the bill would waive fees for part time students for up to two academic years. officials say nearly two thirds of the state's 1.9 million community college students are considered part time. the bill was introduced by silicon valley assembly member patrick ahrens as the bay area rain has hit once again with rain, parts of southern california bracing for the wet weather as well, and the possibility of landslides in those burn scars in the recent wildfires

intelligence was >> maurice: did you know the term artificial intelligence was coined 70 years ago by a dartmouthking about ai, even as it takes over more and more of the world. it is also taking up more and more space on more and more ground. and that can change a community's landscape, as janet shamlian reports in tonight's "eye on america." >> reporter: you'd be hard-pressed to find a pothole in loudoun county, virginia. the roads are freshly paved, and the schools are new. all paid for by tax revenue from the 200 orso oversized buildings in the county known as status centers. >> it has completely changed our economy from a failing economy to one of the strongest local economies anywhere in the country, and the data centers have done that. >> reporter: buddy rizer helped bring them here over the past two decades. he is loudoun's economic developer director. the need for the centers is growing alongside our dependence on artificial intelligence. to process and store the immense amount of digital information they consume tremendous amounts of both power and water. to put in a more measurable way

. >> reporter: and a study out today from harvard, stanford, and dartmouth cites a widespread rise inenteeism, especially in high poverty districts. >> the biggest thing is to just get them inside the building. once you get them in the building, learning is going to happen. >> reporter: but the study found some bright spots. more than 100 local school districts are performing better in math and reading than they were before the pandemic. public schools in d.c. aren't there yet, but over the last two years, d.c. ranked first among states in terms of recovery in math and reading. >> all right, sam. who has sam? let's go! >> reporter: katreena shelby is the principal at kramer. so how did you do it? >> i started thinking maybe i need to think about this differently. how can we make classroom sizes smaller but give kids more opportunities to get remediation during the school day? >> reporter: that includes what they call high-impact tutoring, which was successful in other districts, too. so this is kind of like having a private tutor, but inside your classroom during school hours. >> corr

. >> reporter: in a study out today from harvard, stanford and dartmouth cites a widespread rise in absenteeism, especially in high poverty districts. >> the biggest thing is just get them inside the building. once they get in the building, learning is going to happen. >> reporter: but the study found some bright spots. more than 100 local school districts are performing better in math and reading than they were before the pandemic. public schools in d.c. aren't there yet, but over the last two years, d.c. ranked first among states in terms of recovery in math and reading. katrina shelby is the principal at cramer. so how did you do it? >> i started thinking maybe i need to think about this differently. how can we make classroom sizes smaller, but give kids more opportunities to get remediation during the school day. >> reporter: that includes what they call high impact tutoring, which was successful in other districts too. so this is kind of like having a private tutor, but inside your classroom during school hours. >> correct, yes. absolutely. so it's just like to a tutoring resource place, b

and a dartmouth college graduate, thank you very much. brandon, thank you very much.ongressman, we appreciate it. all right. first doge went after dozens of dei offices and usaid and cfpb and nih and now working its way through my old haunt, the department of education. and it's slashing millions and, again, wasteful spending. it's been going on for decades. only gotten worse. now it looks like fema, the federal emergency management agency might be next under the doge guillotine. now, trump is writing on truth social that the biden run fema has been a disaster. fema should be terminated. individual states should handle storms, et cetera. as they come. big savings and far more efficient. getting rid of fema would be huge. the agency's 2025 budget, $65 billion. did employs more than 20,000 people nationwide. but, remember, after hurricane helene, fema left americans stranded. >> we drove by people living in tents. for months and months. and these people depended on fema to help them and they were left high and dry. >> laura: and after hurricane milton we saw how hugely

. >> now, both ayala mejia and her sister are on full ride scholarships to dartmouth and stanford, respectively, a story she hopes can inspire others who may end up in a similar situation. >> i was told by various people that i wasn't going to be anything, that i was going to be another statistic in the foster care system, and i told them, that's not going to happen to me. i'm smart and i'm strong, and i'm going to show you, and i did and make my parents proud. you know, they didn't cross the border for nothing, and they didn't decide to have children here in the united states for nothing. >> now 21, she knows her parents would be proud because when life got tough, she got tougher. in san jose, dustin dorsey, abc seven news. >> she is so inspiring. a huge congratulations to her. well, coming up next here oc seven news at six, a costco deal. and no, we're not talking about buying in bulk. with the way that pg&e handled the wildfires. yeah. yeah. i totally, totally understand. we're adding a ton of sensors. as soon as something comes in contact with the power line, it'll turn off so that there's

. >> now, both ayala mejia and her sister are on full ride scholarships to dartmouth and stanford, respectively, a story she hopes can inspire others who may end up in a similar situation. >> i was told by various people that i wasn't going to be anything, that i was going to be another statistic in the foster care system, and i told them, that's not going to happen to me. i'm smart and i'm strong, and i'm gonna show you and i did and make my parents proud. you know, they didn't cross the border for nothing, and they didn't decide to have children here in the united states for nothing. >> now 21, she knows her parents would be proud because when life got tough, she got tougher in san jose. dustin dorsey, abc seven news. >> there are a lot of changes happening in the trump administration's first week. we're keeping track of the first 100 days, and you can too, with us at abc seven news.com and the abc seven bay area app. encouraging news for some san francisco residents who, it seemed, were going to have to find a new pharmacy. the change that's providing a different kind of relief coming from w

and i said, dartmouth. and he goes, where's that at? and i said, new hampshire. and he says that like massachusetts. and i said, yeah, it's like massachusetts. nick they got an ocean up there. and i said, well, the atlantic is on is on. you know, next new hampshire goes lanark. i heard the one we got. and i said, yeah, that's like the one one we got. i said, look, do you want to go in and get some pizza and catch up? because, no, eric, i can't do that because me and anthony knocked out that security guard over there and took those stereos. we got to go and. so the other kid, anthony, recognized me. eric, how do you do your stereo? and i was like, no, no, i'm good. well, a few years later, i'm 22 years old and i'm working in the reagan white house and my boss asked me, you know, so you're from cherry hill, new jersey. there was a big mob war going on at the time. biggest mob war since prohibition. and cherry hill was in the news because of the gambino's and what was called the pizza connection, which was the largest heroin operation in the country. not that i ever

you went to a wonderful college, dartmouth college. so so you're obviously brilliant. so you're obviously brilliant. um, did you learn anything about the real life challenges for young kids working in india, or that you didn't know before? >> what i think this movie does is it shows the nuances of it. um, which is, of course, everybody that would say, like, we should end it immediately. but for so many of these young people, it's how they're supporting their family. so we'd like to come in and just make a blanket statement of like, end it all. but it's like, this is also an opportunity. so it's a really tricky subject with a lot of nuances in it. but what i love about the film is that it's just empowering for these two young girls. >> what do you hope people who watch it take away from it? >> you know that they can see these resilient young girls that they're navigating these like systemic challenges, but they are like any girls that you might know growing up. you know, they're underprivileged and there's obviously struggles, but they love each other and there's a real

instructed black applicants who came him personally that they instead apply to schools, like harvard and dartmouth. brown, where they accepted black applicants. a 1910 research report comparing princeton under wilson's leadership to other leading universities found it to be, quote, the least open to blacks. princeton's of black applicants by of their race. the study's authors was an injustice. in which princeton is unique among the universities for good measure. princeton was labeled the most anti-semitic of all the universities in the study. and they ended by saying while harvard's ideal is diversity, princeton's is homogeneity. that year, 1910, would be wilson's last at princeton, he was in the midst of a two year bitter running dispute with his board of trustees. and he took opportunity to jump into the world of elective politics, which had been his boyhood dream. in september of 1910. so this is all happening very quickly now. new jersey's democratic party bosses. and here we got some slides to go with this. there is a princeton. maneuver, the nomination of wilson, who was the ultimate politic

in history from dartmouth. dr. matthew kron i go is vice president and senior investor for the center for strategy and security at the atlanta council and specializes in u.s. strategy and strategic competition with russia and nuclear deterrence and serves as tenure professor at georgetown university and also is a commissioner on the congressional commission on the strategic posture of the united states. previously he served in the department of defense and intelligence community under the bush, obama, and trump administrations and holds a p.h.d. and m.a. in political science from the university in california berkeley and a life member on foreign relations. dr.berg is head of the future of venezuela's initiative at the center for strategic and international studdies. he specializes in u.s.-latin america relations, strategic competition, defense policy and transnational organized crime. previously, he was a research fellow at the american enterprise institute and a visiting fellow at oxford's changing character progr

you learn to work hard and work long. >> you went to dartmouth, correct? and the dartmouth review. tell me what got you interested in that experience and what it was like for you. >> i wanted to get involved in the conservative community at dartmouth and the christian community as well. as you know, dartmouth is about as a sexual -- secular and liberal a college as you can get. i love dear old dartmouth but we don't agree on everything. i wanted to get as involved as i could. got involved with the dartmouth review. it has a long history, it's got a great history. we have had a lot of fun there, and i really enjoyed it. we stirred the pot a little bit on campus, rustled some feathers, but had a lot of fun doing it. >> investment banking was part of your experience as well. tell us about that. >> that's right. after graduating, i worked in finance for several years, first as an investment banker, then as an equity analyst at a hedge fund for several years. you have to experience the private sector. got to work long hours once again. but got to see a little bit of what the real world