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Brown University rejects Trump administration’s compact  The Hill Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment  The New York Times The Logical End Point of Trump’s Higher-Education Agenda  The Atlantic Brown University declines to join Trump’s compact  WJAR Brown University rejects Trump proposal to overhaul policies for preferential funding  The Guardian Source link

Johnson defends administration’s move to keep military paid during shutdown The House speaker has said that the Trump administration has “every right” to move around the “duly appropriated dollars from Congress to the Department of Defense”. The Pentagon and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has said that unspent funds from research and development accounts will be used to …

A renegade member of Donald Trump’s own party has blasted the president’s attempts to pressure the nation’s top universities into conforming to his MAGA agenda. “The surest way to screw up the world’s best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it,” Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie wrote on X. “Congrats to my alma mater for turning …

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday became the first school to reject an offer of federal funds in exchange for agreeing to the Trump administration’s education agenda. MIT disagreed with a number of aspects of the administration’s proposal, which was sent to nine major universities last week, arguing that it would restrict the university’s freedom of expression and independence, …

A grand jury indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution Thursday. It is the latest indication of President Donald Trump and his administration’s determination to use the Justice Department to pursue the president’s political foes. Read the full indictment by clicking on the document below. James last year won …

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — President Donald Trump, members of his administration and conservative influencers painted a bleak portrait of Portland, Oregon, at a roundtable event at the White House Wednesday, alleging that the city has been besieged by violence perpetrated by “antifa thugs” and that it is essentially a war zone. “It should be clear to all Americans that we …

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois leaders went to court Monday to stop President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops to Chicago, escalating a clash between Democratic-led states and the Republican administration during an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the nation’s third-largest city. The legal challenge came hours after a judge blocked the Guard’s deployment in Portland, Oregon. The Trump administration …

Federal judge halts Trump administration’s call-up of National Guard in Portland  Politico Trump’s ‘war-ravaged Portland’ National Guard deployment halted by federal judge over authority concerns  Fox News ‘Dangerous and un-American’: Politicians deride Trump administration over leaked messages on deploying Army to Portland  Star Tribune Miller on judge blocking Portland National Guard deployment: ‘Legal insurrection’  The Hill Latest updates: Trump appeals judge’s order blocking Portland …

A federal judge says he believes the immigrant defendant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the administration wrongly sent to El Salvador, may have been targeted with a criminal charge by the Justice Department this year out of vindictiveness. “The Government had a significant stake in retaliating against Abrego’s success” suing the Trump administration after his wrongful removal to El Salvador in …

A federal judge agreed Monday to temporarily suspend the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of jobs at the agency that oversees Voice of America, the government-funded broadcaster founded to counter Nazi propaganda during World War II. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., ruled that the U.S. Agency for Global Media cannot implement a reduction in force eliminating 532 jobs …