Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities
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Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Follow live updates on the Trump administration. As he finished lunch in the private dining room outside the Oval Office on April 1, President Trump floated an astounding proposal: What if the government simply canceled every dollar of the nearly $9 billion promised…

Glenn Youngkin, an Anti-D.E.I. Governor, Once Championed Diversity
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Glenn Youngkin, an Anti-D.E.I. Governor, Once Championed Diversity

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Before Glenn Youngkin was a culture warrior who cheered the demise of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, he was a financial executive who worried about a lack of diversity in his field. “One of the clear challenges in the financial sector broadly is…

Vandalism of Muslim Prayer Room at N.Y.U. Is Investigated as Hate Crime
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Vandalism of Muslim Prayer Room at N.Y.U. Is Investigated as Hate Crime

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A prayer room used by Muslim students at New York University was struck by vandals who etched and drew graffiti on the walls and soaked Islamic prayer mats with urine, according to N.Y.U. officials and members of the university’s Muslim community. The soiled…

University of Michigan to Scuttle Its Flagship D.E.I. Program
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University of Michigan to Scuttle Its Flagship D.E.I. Program

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The University of Michigan will eliminate its central diversity, equity and inclusion program, the school announced on Thursday, seeking to overhaul an ambitious and expensive initiative that it had long cast as a model for American higher education. Michigan — one of the…

Venezuelan T.P.S. Holders Will Ask Judge to Maintain Deportation Protections
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Venezuelan T.P.S. Holders Will Ask Judge to Maintain Deportation Protections

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Immigrant rights lawyers on Monday will urge a federal judge in San Francisco to delay two decisions by the Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that would prevent migrants from Venezuela from staying in the United States under the Temporary Protected Status program. The…

Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing
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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines I became stateless when I was 14 and my family left the Soviet Union. In exchange for granting my parents, my brother and me exit visas, the U.S.S.R. stripped us of citizenship. For nearly a decade after we arrived in the United States,…

Opinion | Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Mahmoud Khalil
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Opinion | Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Mahmoud Khalil

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Columbia University is now the epicenter of the American culture war. The Trump administration is targeting a former Columbia student — and the university itself — as a test case for its new authoritarian regime. The story of Columbia isn’t simply about Mahmoud…

Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale
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Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines To hear President Trump and some of his closest supporters tell it, South Africa is a terrible place for white people. They face discrimination, are sidelined from jobs and live under the constant threat of violence or having their land stolen by a…

E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
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E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration intends to eliminate Environmental Protection Agency offices responsible for addressing the disproportionately high levels of pollution facing poor communities, according to a memo from Lee Zeldin, the agency administrator. In the internal memo, viewed by The New York Times, Mr….