Trump vs. Harvard feud escalates with search for foreign funding, ties

Kanishka Singh  |  Reuters Harvard protests Trump’s threats to international students Harvard students and staff push back against Trump administration threats. Aljazeera WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration said it sought Harvard University’s records on foreign funding going back a decade and on some foreign ties, in the government’s latest escalation against … Read more

Trump administration publishes cache of RFK assassination records

Chris Prentice  |  Reuters RFK Jr. praises Trump’s move to declassify JFK, RFK and MLK files Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised President Donald Trump’s decision to declassify documents on the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King Jr. unbranded – Newsworthy NEW YORK, April 18 (Reuters) – The U.S. National Archives has released thousands … Read more

DEI efforts killed at Pentagon government watchdog says

Hegseth: ‘Diversity is our strength’ is dumbest phrase in military history U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called ‘diversity is our strength’ the dumbest phrase in military history. WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has eliminated nearly 200 jobs related to diversity, equity and inclusion in the last year, killing the Biden-administration’s effort aimed at providing “everyone an … Read more

Daily Briefing: Deportation politics

Good morning!🙋🏼‍♀️ I’m Nicole Fallert. I can’t stop using ChatGPT to turn my dog into a human. Close out the week with Friday’s news: Maryland senator meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen said he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a union sheet metal worker and father of three who was wrongly deported to … Read more

Trump could abandon Russia-Ukraine peace deal, Rubio says

Bart H. Meijer and Gabriel Stargardter  |  Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump will walk away from trying to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal within days unless there are clear signs that a deal can be done, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday. “We’re not going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on end. So … Read more