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Columbia University's interim president steps down
Columbia University said Friday its interim president, Katrina A. Armstrong, is stepping aside, a week after the university struck a deal with the Trump administration to negotiate its federal funding, NBC News reported.
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The White House's Barstool problem
Dave Portnoy, a Trump supporter and the founder of Barstool Sports, went viral for his blistering critique of the administration’s group chat debacle.
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Fact check: RFK Jr.'s faulty advice on bird flu
In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread in poultry flocks unchecked. Scientists say that’s risky because it gives the virus more opportunities to replicate, increasing the chance it could change to spread easily among humans.
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Justice Sotomayor defends ‘fearlessly independent' judiciary amid Trump attacks
Remarks by the liberal justice came as President Donald Trump and his allies have harshly criticized judges for blocking his agenda.
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Inside Trump's shock decision to pull the plug on Elise Stefanik's nomination
The sudden implosion of Stefanik’s nomination came as a surprise to many Republicans on Capitol Hill.
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Russian researcher at Harvard, who protested the Ukraine war, detained by ICE
Kseniia Petrova’s attorney said her previous arrest in Russia and social media activity “will almost certainly ensure a nice, hefty jail sentence for her” if she is deported back.
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to lift order barring deportations under wartime law
The Trump administration is looking to continue deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act.
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How milk is getting caught in the middle of Trump's policy agenda
President Donald Trump’s moves in Washington are being felt in the milking barns of an upstate New York dairy farm. There, AJ Wormuth said he’s already seeing costs go up from Trump’s tariffs while the threat of a wider trade war is driving down the price he gets paid for his cows’ milk. “We’re getting a double whammy — we’re getting...... -
Federal judge in Mass. orders Trump administration not to remove Tufts student from US
More than two dozen members of Congress demanded answers for Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained by ICE earlier this week.
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Vance argues for US ownership of Greenland during visit
Vice President JD Vance argued on Friday that Greenlanders would be better off being under the protection of the U.S. than under Denmark.
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The housing search is easing, but a prolonged trade war could derail progress
Housing’s yearslong winter might be showing the first hints of thaw, according to new data from the NBC News Home Buyer Index.
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Trump takes aim at foreign-born college students, with 300 visas revoked
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday the State Department has revoked 300 or more student visas, as the White House increasingly targets foreign-born students whose whose main transgression seems to be activism, NBC News reported.
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Trump order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with ‘improper ideology'
Donald Trump signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
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Trump privately fumes about top security official who started Signal group chat
Trump’s frustration is two-fold, according to two Republican sources with knowledge of the conversations.
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DHS staffer faces serious punishment for accidentally adding reporter to group email
The episode, which has not been previously reported, raises questions about unequal punishment for inadvertent leakers in the Trump administration.
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Timeline: The Trump administration's shifting stance on the Signal chat debacle
Officials have offered a variety of comments on the fact that a journalist was accidentally included in a high-level chat about U.S. military plans.