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Obama applauds Harvard for rejecting Trump administration’s ‘ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom’

Obama said the Ivy League university has set an example for other higher education institutions and hopes they ‘follow suit’

The Independent UK

GOP Lawmaker, and Harvard Alum, Rebukes Harvard as 'Epitome of Academic Rot' Following Defiance of Trump Admin

Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik condemned Harvard as a symbol of academic decay after it resisted pressure from the Trump administration.

International Business Times

Obama backs Harvard as Yale faculty members support standing up to Trump

Harvard faces funding freeze as Yale faculty asks leadership ‘to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands’

The Guardian - US

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Harvard’s $2.3bn gamble: What Trump demanded; how the university resisted

A month after Columbia buckled to Trump’s demands, Harvard says it won’t accept them. Here’s how the battle unfolded.

Al Jazeera

Mark Zuckerberg's showdown with the FTC is massive for Meta—and even bigger for tech overall

Mark Zuckerberg is set to take the stand for a second day amid Meta's FTC trial.

Fortune

First Thing: Obama condemns Trump’s $2.3bn Harvard funding freeze as ‘unlawful’

Former president says move is an ‘attempt to stifle academic freedom’. Plus, the people forming relationships with AI chatbots

The Guardian - UK

Trump administration to freeze €1.9bn in grants to Harvard University

The move came shortly after the Ivy League institution refused to accept a sweep of demands made by the federal government.

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US social security administration accuses Biden of lying in speech – as it happened

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The Guardian - US

Harvard University defies Trump’s demands, faces $2.3bn in funding cuts

The Ivy League school becomes first US university to defy Trump administration’s demands after campus protests.

Al Jazeera

Trump officials cut billions in Harvard funds after university defies demands

Education department says $2.3bn in funds to be frozen after university rejects slew of demands as political ploy

The Guardian - US

How Harvard became the first university to push back against Trump’s campus crackdown

ANALYSIS: Harvard has become the first of six Ivy League schools to formally oppose the Trump administration’s demands. Josh Marcus reports

The Independent UK

Harvard Sees $2.2 Billion In Funding Frozen After Defying Trump

Elite US university Harvard was hit with a $2.2 billion freeze in federal funding Monday after rejecting a list of sweeping demands that the White House said was intended to crack down on campus anti-Semitism.

International Business Times

Harvard rejects Trump DOE demands

Harvard President Alan Garber hit back at the Trump administration in a fiery letter

Salon

Trump administration slashes $2.2bn in federal money from Harvard after it refuses president’s ‘dictates’

‘The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,’ said a letter from Harvard’s lawyers.’ No private university ‘can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government’

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The Independent UK

Harvard defies Trump's demands and risks $9B in federal funding

Harvard University says it won't comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration as a condition for it to received almost $9 billion in funding

The Guardian - US

Harvard says it will not ‘yield’ to Trump demands over $9bn in funding cuts

In a message, the university’s president said it will not ‘surrender its independence’ amid crackdown on education

The Independent UK

New York plane crash claims lives of high-achieving family celebrating a birthday

A private plane that crashed in upstate New York over the weekend was carrying six members of a close-knit family of physicians and distinguished student-athletes

International Business Times UK

Who Is Going to Space With Katy Perry? Meet the All-Female Blue Origin Crew Handpicked by Lauren Sánchez

The mission, called NS-31, will take off from West Texas, marking the first time in spaceflight history that an all-woman crew takes to the skies.

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The Guardian - US

Harvard University faculty sue to block Trump review of nearly $9bn in funding

Lawsuit filed along with motion for temporary restraining order calls threats an existential ‘gun to the head’

Fortune

12 former OpenAI employees asked to be heard in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the company; one calls Sam Altman a ‘person of low integrity’

In a friend of the court filing by Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, a dozen former employees accuse OpenAI of abandoning its nonprofit roots and betraying the mission that originally attracted them to the organization.

The Guardian - US

Musk thinks Trump’s pal Navarro is a ‘moron’. Who are we supposed to root for here?

Tariffs have driven a wedge between Trump aides in an administration that hates expertise. I suppose boys will be boys

Fortune

Inside the bond market’s $800 billion ‘murder mystery’

One of Trump’s head economists said the spike in yields added “urgency” to the decision to pause the president’s reciprocal tariffs.

The Conversation

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence

Many American universities, widely seen globally as beacons of academic integrity and free speech, are giving in to demands from the Trump administration, which has been targeting academia since it took office.

Reason

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International Business Times

China Hawk Peter Navarro Has Trump's Ear

President Donald Trump's punishing tariffs on countries around the world, including a 104 percent increase in duties on China, bear the fingerprint of Peter Navarro, a Harvard-trained economist who has long warned against a rising Beijing.

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