Free Beacon Jessica Costescu

Jessica Costescu is a staff writer for the Washington Free Beacon. She graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service with a major in International Politics and a concentration in Foreign Policy. She also holds an Associate Degree in Administration of Justice from Cypress College. She can be reached at costescu@freebeacon.com


House Hopeful Rebecca Cooke, Billing Herself as a Political Outsider, Served on Shape-Shifting Dark Money Group’s Steering Committee

‘My background is rooted in agriculture, small business and helping women entrepreneurs,’ Cooke says

UC San Diego, Aiming To Expand Its Hispanic Student Population, Turned to a Race-Based 'Latinx Cluster Hire Initiative'

The discriminatory recruitment plan promised to combat UC San Diego’s 'stagnant progress' in 'diversifying the faculty'

Masked Protesters Rally Against Columbia's New Mask Policy, Testing School's Resolve To Deliver Trump-Imposed Reforms

The protesters marched unimpeded without being asked to identify themselves as Columbia president downplays mask ban to angry faculty members

Mahmoud Khalil Omitted Work for Terror-Tied UNRWA From Green Card Application, Prosecutors Say

Detained Columbia protest leader served as a political affairs officer for the agency at the time of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack, court filing shows

University of Pennsylvania Lays Off Anti-Semitic Cartoonist After Trump Slashes Hundreds of Millions in Federal Funding

Communications lecturer Dwayne Booth kept teaching at Ivy League school after he published blood libel cartoon

Columbia Caves to Trump in First Stage of $430 Million Funding Fight

The school will ban masks at protests, empower campus police, and implement other reforms to unlock 'long-term' negotiations with federal regulators

Trump Admin Grants Columbia One-Day Extension To Implement Reforms

An agreement to comply would not restore $430 million in federal funding but rather unlock 'long-term' negotiations