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Education Department Ends Grant Funding Worth $350 Million for Minority-Serving Colleges

10 septembre 2025 à 18:27
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the money supported programs that the administration believes unfairly support minority students.

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Linda McMahon said the Education Department would seek to “re-envision” the grant programs to continue supporting “underprepared or under-resourced students.”

Education Department Ends Grant Funding Worth $350 Million for Minority-Serving Colleges

10 septembre 2025 à 18:27
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the money supported programs that the administration believes unfairly support minority students.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Linda McMahon said the Education Department would seek to “re-envision” the grant programs to continue supporting “underprepared or under-resourced students.”

How Lutnick Is Using Government Power to Pressure Private Companies

10 septembre 2025 à 15:09
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been putting the squeeze on companies and trading partners in an unusual effort to raise revenue and expand the president’s role over the economy.

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As the commerce secretary and a top official in charge of President Trump’s trade negotiations, Howard Lutnick has an array of powerful economic levers to deploy.
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Justice Breyer Defends Judge Accused of Defying Supreme Court Order

6 septembre 2025 à 17:32
The justice’s comments reflected tensions within the judiciary, as trial judges struggle to interpret the Supreme Court’s often cryptic emergency orders.

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Former Justice Stephen Breyer in 2021.

Settlement Talks Stall Between Harvard and the Trump Administration

6 septembre 2025 à 05:02
One major reason is said to be an emerging divide within the administration over whether the current framework is too favorable to Harvard.

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The Trump administration has opened more than a dozen federal investigations into Harvard over a variety of targets, from the university’s admissions policies to its patent paperwork.

Harvard Won Its Money Back, but Will It Actually Get It?

4 septembre 2025 à 17:10
A judge ruled that the Trump administration broke the law in canceling billions in federal funds for Harvard. Whether the money is returned matters for the rest of higher education.

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A court ruling this week was a victory for Harvard in its fight with the Trump administration, but the battle between the two sides is most likely not over.

President of Northwestern, a School Attacked by the G.O.P., Will Resign

4 septembre 2025 à 15:43
The university’s president, Michael Schill, said he would step down following months of turbulence, including Trump administration cuts of $790 million from the university’s research funds.

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Michael Schill, president of Northwestern University, at a House Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington last year.

Trump Administration Targets Financial Relief for Undocumented Students

4 septembre 2025 à 05:02
The Justice Department has challenged several states that offer in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrants, contending that the policies discriminate against U.S. citizens.

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Shortly after the Trump administration challenged Texas, a federal judge ruled that a state law offering undocumented students access to in-state tuition was “invalid.”

Judge Apologizes to Conservative Justices in Case Over N.I.H. Cuts

2 septembre 2025 à 16:49
The display of contrition came after Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh issued a stern warning directing judges to heed their orders in August.

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The grants in question supported a wide variety of research at the National Institutes of Health.

Trump Crime Strategy May Work for Now, but Not for Long, Experts Say

31 août 2025 à 15:28
The president is looking to add troops to city streets while cutting funds for programs that work, experts and local officials say. But one idea, beautifying neighborhoods, has buy-in.

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Metropolitan Police and federal agents responded to a stolen vehicle this month in Washington, D.C.

Before Minnesota Shooting, a Program Aimed at Preventing Attacks Lost Federal Funding

30 août 2025 à 20:34
The cut by the Trump administration does not appear to have affected the handling of the church shooting this week, but state leaders say it weakens efforts to identify future threats.

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At Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis.

Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects

29 août 2025 à 15:37
The Trump administration’s campaign against wind power continued as it targeted funding for marine terminals and ports to support development of the industry.

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Friday’s move is the latest in a series of escalating attacks by the Trump administration against the wind industry.

Appeals Court Declines to Block Trump From Freezing Foreign Aid

29 août 2025 à 00:43
The court voted not to revisit a fight over billions in frozen funds, but simultaneously revised an earlier order to give nonprofits that sued a narrow path forward in the case.

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The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seemed to render moot, for now, an emergency request the Trump administration had made with the Supreme Court.

Trump Officials Threaten Denver Public School Funding Over Transgender Bathroom Policy

28 août 2025 à 22:47
The Education Department gave Denver Public Schools 10 days to ban transgender students from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity.

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Denver East High School has an all-gender restroom. The Trump administration determined that that violated students’ civil rights.

Federal Money Is a ‘Lifeline’ for This Republican School District

27 août 2025 à 05:02
President Trump wants to cut federal spending for education. The money often goes toward disadvantaged students in Republican states.

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Ella Medders teaches a second-grade class at Oakman Elementary School in Walker County, Ala.

Lawmakers Visit Syria to Push for Repealing Sanctions Law

25 août 2025 à 16:08
A bipartisan pair of members of Congress made the first official U.S. visit there since the fall of the Assad government, arguing that it was time to permanently lift American sanctions.

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A damaged billboard of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus in January, a month after he was overthrown.

Judge Allows Blocking of Funds to Maine Abortion Providers

26 août 2025 à 11:14
In a blunt ruling, the federal judge wrote that he would not thwart Republican lawmakers’ bid to pull Medicaid funds from organizations that perform abortions.

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A lawsuit, brought by a group that operates 18 family planning clinics in Maine, was filed after Republicans moved to cut off the flow of Medicaid dollars to major abortion providers through legislation this summer.

After U.S. Takes Stake in Intel, Trump Pledges ‘Many More’ Deals

25 août 2025 à 17:52
The president said he hoped to “get as much as I can,” signaling a shift in the relationship between government and private business.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

President Trump’s pledge to pursue investments in major companies underscored a tectonic and potentially risky shift in the relationship between government and private enterprise.

Lawmakers Visit Syria to Push for Repealing Sanctions Law

25 août 2025 à 16:08
A bipartisan pair of members of Congress made the first official U.S. visit there since the fall of the Assad government, arguing that it was time to permanently lift American sanctions.

© David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

A damaged billboard of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus in January, a month after he was overthrown.

Harvard Is Making Changes Trump Officials Want, Even Without a Deal

23 août 2025 à 05:01
Harvard has sued, fighting the Trump administration’s demands. But the university has also enacted a host of items on the White House wish list.

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Harvard leaders are talking to the White House and may pay $500 million to settle the dispute.

Supreme Court Lets Trump Administration Cut N.I.H. Grants for Disfavored Research

21 août 2025 à 18:48
The court’s order was fractured, with the justices splitting over whether individual cancellations and the policy behind them could be challenged in a federal trial court.

© Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times

A library building on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
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