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Officer Charged in Shooting of College Athlete Who Knocked at Wrong Door

Prosecutors said the police officer from Upper Pottsgrove, Pa., committed manslaughter when he fired on the student, who was returning from a night out at bars. A homeowner had reported a burglary in progress.

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An officer with the Upper Pottsgrove Township Police Department shouted, “Hands up, hands up now, drop to the ground!” at the student. And then he fired.
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Leader of DOJ’s Civil Rights Unit Spars With Harvard, the Left and Her Colleagues

Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights unit, has extracted flashy agreements and personnel moves from big universities and sought to force states to turn over confidential voter data.

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Harmeet Dhillon has waged President Trump’s war on the left through a relentless pressure campaign against 100 universities over their diversity and antisemitism policies.
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Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Stanford Students Who Criticized Israel

The ruling was a win for Stanford’s student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, and it followed another court victory for students targeted by the Trump administration last year.

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A lawsuit argued that student journalists had been forced to self-censor out of fear of government retaliation.
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Trump Administration Will Appeal Harvard Antisemitism Case

A federal judge earlier ruled against Trump officials in a lawsuit accusing the university of allowing persistent antisemitism on campus.

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A legal conflict between the Trump administration and Harvard has lasted for over a year.
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Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities

A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.

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McGill University in Montreal is one of the schools that has benefited from the Canada-bound brain drain from U.S. institutions.
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West Point Climate Professor Says He Was Fired for Refusing to ‘Defy Science’

Dr. Adam Kalkstein is suing the U. S. Military Academy, where he was a professor of geography and the only climate scientist, after being fired.

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Cadets walking near Pershing Barracks at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2014. A West Point climate professor says he was fired for refusing to “defy science.”
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Academic Who Publicized Plagiarism Allegations Against Jason Arday Is Suspended

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Ghent University in Belgium said it suspended the academic, Nathan Cofnas, pending an investigation.

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A makeshift memorial to Jason Arday at the University of Cambridge on Tuesday.
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