The University of Virginia’s president, James Ryan, resigned today under pressure from the Trump administration. In a statement, Ryan explained he couldn’t fight for his job at the expense of federal funding. James E. Ryan convened a meeting with his senior leadership on Friday and announced that he would be stepping down, according to a...
Talks with Harvard are ongoing and despite hints that some kind of compromise might be reached soon, nothing has been formally announced yet. Meanwhile, the Trump administration does seem to be turning its attention toward California. Yesterday Trump’s education department said California was in violation of federal civil rights law. The Trump administration declared on...
Reuters The Trump administration said a Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported and then brought back to the US on criminal charges will “never go free” on American soil, even though a judge ordered his release. Kilmar Ábrego García was deported in March as part of an immigration crackdown. Government officials said he was removed...
Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has said the Trump administration failed to suppress pro-Palestinian voices, following his release from more than three months in immigration detention. “My existence is a message” to the Trump administration, he told the BBC after returning to New Jersey from a detention centre in Louisiana. “All these attempts to suppress...
Getty Images A part of a US national suicide prevention hotline that caters for LGBTQ young people says it will soon close, after the Trump administration cut its funding. The administration has accused the service of “radical gender ideology”. It says it will still fund the wider 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – of which...
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s deployment of California’s National Guard to Los Angeles and called the move illegal. The judge’s order to return control of the troops to California Governor Gavin Newsom will not go into effect immediately and the administration has filed an appeal. The state sued President Donald Trump on...
A top official within the Nashville, Tennessee, area’s Department of Justice (DOJ) offices has resigned after the Trump administration charged Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man mistakenly deported from the U.S. earlier this year, with human trafficking. Abrego Garcia, a noncitizen who has spent nearly half his life living in Maryland, was wrongfully deported this...
Earlier this week the Trump administration threatened to fine California after a trans athlete won several track events at the state final competition for girls. Today, CNN is reporting that the administration is indeed working on a plan to cut off federal funding to California, not unlike what the administration has done to Harvard. Details...
Andrew Thomson and Steven McKenzie BBC Scotland News SNS Inverness Caledonian Thistle finished seventh place in League 1 last season Inverness Caledonian Thistle (ICT) is to exit administration after agreements were reached with its creditors. The Highland club got into difficulty last year after running up large debts. Joint administrators BDO was appointed in October...
The Department of Education put out a press release today announcing that Columbia University is in violation of anti-discrimination laws and therefore fails to meet standards for accreditation. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today notified Middle States Commission on Higher Education (the Commission) that its member institution, Columbia University, is...
A lot of people were shocked when J.D. Vance denounced the Europe-wide abandonment of and active hostility to free speech at the Munich Security Conference back in February. To say that Vance was unusually blunt is a gross understatement. It’s more accurate to say that he dropped a bunker-busting bomb on the European Union. ????????VP...
The Trump administration will direct federal agencies to review their grants to Harvard University to potentially end or redistribute funding, as part of the White House’s escalating battle with America’s oldest university. The Government Services Agency (GSA) plans to circulate a letter to agencies “asking them to identify any contracts with Harvard, and whether they...
“Domestic Violent Extremists” is not a rhetorical flourish when employed by intelligence agencies. It has a very specific meaning and empowers US government intelligence and law enforcement officials to take enhanced steps to monitor and investigate you. What would be “unreasonable” searches under the Fourth Amendment suddenly become “reasonable,” based on your enhanced danger to...
Getty Images Harvard is suing the Trump administration after it revoked the university’s ability to enrol international students, escalating a dispute between the White House and one of America’s most prestigious institutions. In the suit filed in Boston, the university called the administration’s actions a “blatant violation” of the law. It comes a day after...
Kelly Ng & Annabelle Liang BBC News Shreya Mishra Reddy Harvard is “the ultimate school that anybody in India wants to get into,” says Shreya Mishra Reddy When Shreya Mishra Reddy was admitted to Harvard University in 2023, her parents were “ecstatic”. It is “the ultimate school that anybody in India wants to get into,”...