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,”...
The Trump administration has moved to end Harvard’s ability to enrol international students, escalating a row with America’s oldest university. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X that the administration has revoked Harvard’s “Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law.” “Let this serve as...
The news was met with criticism, with several observers calling it part of a plan to carry out ethnic cleansing. A plan reportedly under consideration by the Trump administration to send up to one million Gazans to the divided country of Libya was met with criticism on Friday and Saturday, with several observers calling it...
Reading the headlines I thought at first maybe Harvard had issued two new letters to the Trump Administration. The Washington Post story was headlined “Harvard rejects Trump administration’s claims as funding battle escalates.” Sounds pretty resistance-y to me. But the NY Times headline about what turns out to be the same letter is headlined very...
Donald Trump’s administration is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus – the right of a person to challenge their detention in court – one of the US president’s top aides has said. Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, told reporters on Friday that the US Constitution allowed for the legal liberty to...
Earlier today I wrote about another Biden-era scandal related to human trafficking. It turns out that the hotline set up to report incidents to law enforcement simply took down the information and essentially deposited it in the circular file. The situation was so bad that 40–that is 4-0–attorneys general are begging RFK, Jr. to force...
Rwanda is in the “early stage” of talks with the Trump administration to accept migrants deported by the US, the East African country’s Foreign Affairs Minister Olivier Nduhungireh has said. His comments come after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last month that Washington was “actively searching” for countries that would take in “some...
In the world of resistance politics, Harvard is leading the university charge against the demands of the Trump administration. Harvard refused to a list of ten demands the administration had sent the school and sued the administration last week. But reports about the breakdown in communications that proceeded this suggested that, behind the scenes, both...
The Trump administration is restoring visas for hundreds of foreign students who had their legal status abruptly terminated stoking panic among many who feared immediate deportation, government officials confirmed. Justice department attorney Elizabeth Kurlan told a federal court that immigration officials are now working on a new system for reviewing and terminating visas for international...
Yesterday Harvard sued the Trump administration and accepted applause from the left for leading the resistance to the administration’s demands of universities around the country. But it turns out that both sides of this argument have, at various times, been hoping for a compromise which would avoid an all-out confrontation. Initially it was Harvard that...
Ten days ago the Trump administration sent Harvard a letter with a list of ten demands. Harvard looked at it over the weekend and on Monday announced that it would not comply with the demands. The administration’s prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government. It violates Harvard’s First Amendment rights and exceeds the...
Harvard University filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop billions of dollars in proposed cuts. The suit filed Monday is part of a feud that escalated last week when the elite institution rejected a list of demands that the Trump administration said was designed to curb diversity initiatives and fight anti-semitism at...
California Governor Gavin Newsom kicked off this year by symbolically putting the first spikes into California’s long-delayed high speed rail line. Like everything else about this project, the event was a bit misleading. The track being laid in January was not track for an actual high speed train but a siding that would eventually allow...
Getty Images Harvard President Alan Garber has flatly rejected the White House’s sweeping list of demands The US government has threatened to ban Harvard University from enrolling foreign students, after the institution said it would not bow to demands from Donald Trump’s administration. The White House has demanded the oldest university in the US make...
District Judge James Boasberg issued a ruling today that basically finds the Trump administration in contempt for deportation flights that took place contrary to an order he issued last month. The judge also gives the Trump administration one week to correct its behavior and potentially avoid the contempt finding. US District Judge James Boasberg ruled...