WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of discrimination in t…
Brown University on Wednesday said it reached a deal with the federal government to regain access to federal research funding and end investigations into alleged discrimination. The Ivy League school agreed to pay $50 million in workforce development grants in Rhode Island over 10 years as part of the agreement.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is freezing $108 million in research funding to Duke University as the federal government accuses t…
PARIS (AP) — A summer camp counselor has accused Spanish police of using brute force against her during the removal of a group of French Jewis…
The Trump administration is pressing for a deal with Harvard University that would require the Ivy League school pay far more than the $200 million fine agreed to by Columbia University, according to two people familiar with the matter. Harvard would be expected to pay hundreds of millions of dollars as part of any settlement to end investigations into antisemitism, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Harvard leaders have been negotiating with the White House as they battle in court to regain access to billions of dollars in funding terminated by the Trump administration.
Federal immigration judges fired by the Trump administration are filing appeals, pursuing legal action and speaking out in an unusually public campaign to fight for their jobs. More than 50 immigration judges have been fired since Donald Trump assumed the presidency for the second time. Normally bound by courtroom decorum, many are now unrestrained in describing terminations they consider unlawful and why they believe they were targeted. Their suspected reasons include racial and gender discrimination, decisions on immigration cases highlighted by the Trump administration and a courthouse tour with the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat.
After vandalism reports involving graffiti at a few mosques in Texas and California, Muslim leaders there have stepped up existing efforts to keep their sacred spaces and community members safe. The incidents add to what many American Muslims say has already been a charged climate amid the fallout in the U.S. of the Israel-Hamas war. After the war started, Muslim and Jewish civil rights groups have said that there’s an upsurge of reports of harassment, bias and physical assaults against members of their communities. Leaders in affected Muslim communities have praised the support they've received from allies in their aftermath of the reported vandalism incidents.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — If the women's soccer players of Spain have gone from nobodies to title contenders in less than a decade, it hasn't co…
A deal between Columbia University and the Trump administration calls for the Ivy League school to pay more than $220 million to resolve multi…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s milestone settlement with Columbia promises to bring stability to a university in crisis. It also…