What Happens to Student Loans if the Education Dept. Closes?
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What Happens to Student Loans if the Education Dept. Closes?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday in an attempt to shut down the Education Department. “We are sending education back to the states, where it so rightly belongs,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement after Mr. Trump signed…

Administration’s Details on Deportation Flights ‘Woefully Insufficient,’ Judge Says
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Administration’s Details on Deportation Flights ‘Woefully Insufficient,’ Judge Says

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In a display of open frustration, a federal judge in Washington told the Trump administration on Thursday to explain in detail why officials had not violated an order he issued last weekend pausing the deportation of scores of Venezuelan immigrants under a rarely…

Trump Administration Sends a New Group of Migrants to Guantánamo Bay
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Trump Administration Sends a New Group of Migrants to Guantánamo Bay

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration sent a new group of migrants to the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Thursday to await deportation, claiming that they may have ties to a Venezuelan gang, according to officials with knowledge of the operation. An Immigration…

How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It
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How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power…

How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It
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Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power…

Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say
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Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak to constrain his…

Ukraine Attacks Air Base Deep Inside Russia
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Ukraine Attacks Air Base Deep Inside Russia

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Ukraine attacked an airfield deep inside Russian territory overnight, officials said on Thursday, as the two sides traded strikes amid efforts by the Trump administration to hammer out details of a partial cease-fire. The attack on the Russian airfield came hours after President…

Mexico Sent Cartel Bosses to U.S. Knowing They Could Face Execution
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Mexico Sent Cartel Bosses to U.S. Knowing They Could Face Execution

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Foreign defendants brought to the United States almost never face capital punishment, no matter how grave the allegations against them. But when a notorious drug lord arrived from Mexico in Brooklyn federal court last month on charges that included killing a federal agent,…

Trump to Sign Order Aimed at Dismantling Education Department
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Trump to Sign Order Aimed at Dismantling Education Department

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Thursday instructing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling the agency, according to two White House officials. The department cannot be closed without the approval of Congress, which created it. But the Trump administration…

The University of California Will Stop Requiring Diversity Statements in Hiring
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The University of California Will Stop Requiring Diversity Statements in Hiring

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The University of California said on Wednesday that it would stop requiring the use of diversity statements in hiring, a practice praised by some who said it made campuses more inclusive but criticized by others who said it did the opposite. Diversity statements…