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Trump Administration's New Target: Harvard

Task force is reviewing $9B in contracts, grants

(Newser) - The Trump administration says it is carrying out a "comprehensive review" of Harvard University contracts and grants worth around $9 billion. In a joint announcement Monday, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the US General Services Administration said funding was being reviewed by...

Elon Musk Hands Out $1M Each to 2 Wisconsin Voters

State Supreme Court declined to stop him from carrying out his plan

(Newser) - Elon Musk gave out $1 million checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group, ahead of a Wisconsin Supreme Court election that the tech billionaire cast as critical to President Trump's agenda and "the future of civilization." "It's a...

Conspicuously Absent From 7.7 Earthquake Response: the US

Report says US has so far sent no one to Myanmar, as death toll exceeds 1.7K

(Newser) - The devastating earthquake in Myanmar is highlighting the vastly different aid landscape in the wake of the Trump administration's ascent to power in the US. As the death toll from Friday's 7.7-magnitude quake soared above 1,700, with that number expected to climb even higher , US aid...

Trump: Putin's Comments Made Me 'Very Angry'

President criticizes Russian leader's remarks about Zelensky

(Newser) - During an interview with NBC News Sunday (in which he also said he's not joking about a potential third presidential term ), President Trump's tone toward his Russian counterpart took a decided turn. He's long appeared to be "cozying up" to Vladimir Putin, worrying many in...

Late-Night Mass Firing Guts Another DC Institution

US Institute of Peace is effectively dissolved, as is USAID

(Newser) - Most employees at the US Institute of Peace, a congressionally created and funded think tank now taken over by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency , have received email notices of their mass firing, the AP reports. The emails, sent to personal accounts because most staff members had lost access...

Hegseth Involves Wife, Brother in Pentagon

Jennifer Hegseth has attended meetings with foreign military officials, and Phil Hegseth now has a Defense job

(Newser) - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who's under criticism for not maintaining security in planning strikes in Yemen, brought his wife along to two meetings with foreign officials for discussions of sensitive military information. Jennifer Hegseth, a former producer for Fox News, is not an employee of the Defense Department, and...

After Bowing to Trump, University Makes Change

Interim President Katrina Armstrong had just announced Columbia agreed to administration's ultimatum

(Newser) - Columbia University, which acquiesced to a Trump administration ultimatum last week that preserved funding and has been dealing with the backlash since, is now on its third president since August. Katrina Armstrong, who held the job on an interim basis, announced her resignation Friday evening, the New York Times reports....

FDA's Top Vaccine Scientist Is Out, Citing RFK Jr.'s 'Lies'

Dr. Peter Marks says HHS secretary 'doesn't care about the truth'

(Newser) - The Food and Drug Adminstration's top vaccine regulator has stepped down from his role, and it's reportedly because he was forced out by the Trump administration via Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reports the Washington Post . Sources tell the paper that Marks was offered...

Trump Order Ends Union Rights in Federal Agencies

President says dumping collective bargaining in government is in the name of national security

(Newser) - President Trump says protecting national security gives him the authority to end collective bargaining with labor unions across most of the federal government, citing authority granted him under a 1978 law. His latest executive order , signed without public fanfare and announced late Thursday, appears to touch most of the federal...

Trump Administration Probes Stanford and UC Admissions

Focus is on affirmative action compliance amid federal scrutiny

(Newser) - The Trump administration has opened investigations into Stanford University and three University of California campuses—Berkeley, UCLA, and Irvine—focused on whether their admissions policies comply with the 2023 Supreme Court ruling that ended affirmative action. US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is leading the effort, says she and President...

Rubio: At Least 300 Students Have Had Visas Revoked

Secretary of state says he pulls visas 'every day'

(Newser) - If you're finding it hard to keep up with the number of foreign students in the US who have had their visas revoked in recent days, Secretary of State Marco Rubio says it's "at least 300." The Hill reports that number is "far higher" than...

Putin: Trump Will Likely Go After Greenland 'Systematically'

His comment comes a day after Trump said US will 'go as far as we have to go' to obtain it

(Newser) - With the Vances' trip to Greenland looming, two notable quotes on the subject of the Trump administration's stated desire to take over the Arctic island:
  • From Trump: Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office Wednesday, the president said, "We need Greenland for national security and international security. So
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Judge Orders Administration to Preserve Signal Texts

Watchdog group said it feared messages about the Yemen strikes would be automatically deleted

(Newser) - The Trump administration is not to delete the messages exchanged in a Signal text group—which inadvertently included a journalist—leading up to the military strikes in Yemen, a federal judge ordered Thursday. American Oversight, which advocates for government transparency, had said in a filing seeking their preservation that "...

Researchers Fear 3M HIV Deaths Over Aid Cuts
Researchers Fear 3M
HIV Deaths Over Aid Cuts
NEW STUDY
Mar 27, 2025 12:21 PM CDT

Researchers Fear 3M HIV Deaths Over Aid Cuts

Experts analyze impact of 5 countries, including the US, in reducing HIV services around the globe

(Newser) - The Trump administration's cuts to foreign aid could contribute to nearly 3 million HIV-related deaths over the next five years. A new modeling study, published Wednesday in the Lancet HIV , analyzes the potential public-health implications of planned or proposed foreign aid cuts by the US, UK, France, Germany, and...

Masked Federal Agents Grab Tufts Student Off Street

Rumeysa Ozturk was apparently targeted for deportation over pro-Palestinian op-ed

(Newser) - A Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by US Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, her lawyer said Wednesday. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, had just left her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Tuesday night when she was stopped, lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai said in a petition...

Administration Doesn't Find Judicial Relief on Deportations

Flights to El Salvador under Alien Enemies Act will stay paused until hearing

(Newser) - A federal appeals court declined Wednesday to lift an order barring the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law. A split three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit wouldn't block a March 15 order...

NASA No Longer Looking to Put First Woman, POC on Moon

Agency cites Trump's executive order to end DEI initiatives

(Newser) - Perhaps there won't be a woman walking on the moon after all. NASA's pledge to put the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface with its Artemis III mission has vanished from NASA webpages "in deference to President Trump's anti-diversity, equity and...

Judge: ICE Cannot Detain Columbia Student Protester

Yunseo Chung, 21, is fighting deportation efforts

(Newser) - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered that the Trump administration's attempts to arrest and deport a 21-year-old Columbia University student who participated in pro-Palestinian protests must cease. The judge found there to be no indication Yunseo Chung—a legal permanent resident who was arrested at a protest earlier this...

Maine Governor Responds to Trump's Apology Demand

Janet Mills pushes back again on president's attack against transgender athletes

(Newser) - Last month, President Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills got into a verbal argument during a National Governors Association meeting at the White House, after Trump attacked Mills for allowing transgender athletes to play on girls' and women's teams in her state and Mills pushed back, telling him, "...

Postmaster General Leaves Early
DeJoy
Resigns
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Mar 24, 2025 6:30 PM CDT

DeJoy Resigns Early

Trump, Musk have talked about taking the Postal Service private

(Newser) - Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who had planned to stay on until a successor was named, instead left office on Monday. DeJoy, who had put in his notice last month after five years in the job and a restructuring of the agency, had asked the Postal Service's board of governors...

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