How Harvard’s pushback against Trump may embolden more US resistance It may be a turning point in the White House’s attempt to gut allegedly liberal universities and punish law firms The Guardian - US · Apr 15, 2025
Trump threatens Harvard’s tax-exempt status after university defies his demands Ivy League school had a chunk of its $9 billion in federal funding revoked Monday after refusing to agree to the administration’s demands The Independent UK · Apr 15, 2025
Trump administration freezes 2.2 bln USD funding to Harvard after it rejects sweeping changes Trump administration on Monday announced a freeze on 2.2 billion US dollars in multi-year grants and a 60 million contract to Harvard University.Read more on Dynamite News Dynamite News · Apr 15, 2025
Republican senator admits he doesn’t know ‘what’s in Trump’s head’ over tariffs ‘The administration has not given one clear rationale for its tariffs,’ admits Louisiana’s John Kennedy The Independent UK · Apr 15, 2025
Piers Morgan confronts WaPo columnist on why he won’t call out Jeff Bezos over Trump ‘If it looks like a duck and it sounds like a duck, it’s probably a duck,’ Piers Morgan reacted when Josh Rogin claimed he wasn’t trying to dodge the question The Independent UK · Apr 15, 2025
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker ‘not decided’ on third term amid 2028 rumors Illinois governor with long track record of standing up to Donald Trump suggests he could make a bid for the White House The Independent UK · Apr 15, 2025
What does it mean that Milei ended Argentina's strict controls on currency and capital? President Javier Milei promised Argentinians that an economic revival would follow the pain of harsh austerity The Independent UK · Apr 15, 2025
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 · Apr 15, 2025
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 · Apr 15, 2025
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 · Apr 15, 2025
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 · Apr 15, 2025
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 · Apr 15, 2025
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 · Apr 15, 2025
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. Euronews · Apr 15, 2025
The Guardian - US · Apr 15, 2025 US social security administration accuses Biden of lying in speech – as it happened This live blog is now closed.
Al Jazeera · Apr 15, 2025 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.
The Guardian - US · Apr 15, 2025 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 Independent UK · Apr 15, 2025 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
International Business Times · Apr 15, 2025 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.
Salon · Apr 14, 2025 Harvard rejects Trump DOE demands Harvard President Alan Garber hit back at the Trump administration in a fiery letter
The Independent UK · Apr 14, 2025 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’
The Independent UK · Apr 14, 2025 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 · Apr 14, 2025 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 · Apr 14, 2025 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 · Apr 14, 2025 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.