MYSTERIOUS: 16 | Mind Blowing Facts

How will Harvard and other universities survive Trump’s funding cuts?

Harvard is suing the Trump administration over federal funding cuts that it says put critical research at risk.

Al Jazeera · Apr 24, 2025

Lawyers ask federal judge in Vermont for immediate release of detained Palestinian activist

A federal judge is scheduled to consider a request to immediately release a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship

The Independent UK · Apr 23, 2025

‘National disgrace’: US lawmakers decry student detentions on visit to Ice jails

Delegation visits jails where Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk are being held and denounce ‘authoritarian’ Trump

The Guardian - US · Apr 23, 2025

Anti-Defamation League says anger at Israel is now the driving force behind antisemitism in the US

The Anti-Defamation League says the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States reached a record high last year

The Independent UK · Apr 22, 2025

Over 150 US university presidents sign letter decrying Trump administration

Statement signed by Harvard, Princeton and Brown leaders denounces White House’s ‘undue government intrusion’

The Guardian - US · Apr 22, 2025

Wife of detained Columbia activist says her husband was denied release for his son's birth

The wife of detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil is accusing federal immigration officials of purposely denying a request for her husband to attend the birth of their first child so the family would suffer

The Independent UK · Apr 22, 2025

Europe wants to poach US academics in wake of Trump funding cuts. Can it entice them to move?

Europe is trying to woo American researchers threatened by Trump’s research cuts to this side of the Atlantic. But what will make them stay?

Euronews · Apr 21, 2025

Thousands take to the streets across US to protest Trump and Musk policies: ‘They flaunt their criminality’

‘I've been protesting for 60 years…There has never been anything like this in my life. Never,’ one San Francisco demonstrator says

The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2025

‘Zohran Mamdani represents the future New York’: socialist riding high in bid to be mayor

The progressive Democrat from Queens is the son of a famous film-maker and poised to take on frontrunner Andrew Cuomo

The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2025

The showdown between Harvard and the White House – day by day

After months of pressure to defend itself, Harvard rejected demands from the Trump administration

The Guardian - US · Apr 19, 2025