THE SHOW NOTES: Houthi Attacks, Biden’s EPA Failure, & The Coldest NFL Game Ever?

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Houthis

The US and its allies launched a significant attack on Yemen’s Houthi rebels late Thursday afternoon after the group repeatedly ignored US demands to cease attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea.

Details: More than 60 targets in Yemen that the Houthis used for missile and drone launch sites, radar detection, and weapons storage areas were directly targeted by an airstrike of over 100 “precision-guided munitions” from an international coalition led by the United States.

Context: As the defacto governing body of large swaths of southern Yemen, the Houthis have launched dozens of attacks in the Red Sea since Hamas invaded southern Israel on October 7th. The Houthi attacks upended international trade routes causing oil and shipping costs to jump in the previous month.

More: Hit the Houthis Hard - Free Beacon

Biden’s EPA Failed To Properly Report Almost Every Dollar It Gave Out In 2022, Audit Finds

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to properly report almost all of its award outlay spending in fiscal year 2022, according to a new report by the agency’s Office of the Inspector General.

The report, published Tuesday, found that the EPA failed to accurately or completely report its fiscal year 2022 spending to USAspending.gov, the official open source registry for government spending. The agency did not properly report 12.9% of its promised future award spending and 99.9% of the EPA’s actual award payments made in fiscal year 2022, according to the report.

Full story at The Daily Caller.

Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions

For a while, remote workers seemed to have it all: elastic waistbands, no commute, better concentration and the ability to pop in laundry loads between calls.

New data, though, shows fully remote workers are falling behind in one of the most-prized and important aspects of a career: getting promoted. 

Over the past year, remote workers were promoted 31% less frequently than people who worked in an office, either full-time or on a hybrid basis, according to an analysis of two million white-collar workers by employment-data provider Live Data Technologies. Remote workers also get less mentorship, a gap that’s especially pronounced for women, research shows. 

Full story at The Wall Street Journal (paywall).

Bill Ackman Slams Harvard Endowment, Forms Think Tank to Probe Higher Education

Bill Ackman slammed the performance of Harvard University’s endowment and said he’s forming a think tank to continue his scrutiny of US education in a wide-ranging interview Friday on CNBC.

The billionaire investor, who helped lead a public charge to remove former Harvard President Claudine Gay, criticized the returns of the college’s endowment, which he says has trailed the market. Harvard’s annualized 10-year return as of June 30 was 8.2%. It was the second-lowest performance of the eight Ivy League schools, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

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To continue his scrutiny of antisemitism and diversity, equity and inclusion policies on US campuses, Ackman plans to form a team that will go “after these issues in a very aggressive way,” he said.

Full story at Bloomberg (paywall)

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