The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to let it cancel $65 million in teacher-training grants that it contends would promote diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The court indicated that it would act quickly on the government’s emergency application, ordering the challengers to respond by Friday. The filing was the administration’s second emergency…
The White House is following through on its plan to cut back on news subscriptions inside government agencies. A spokeswoman for the Agriculture Department, Audra Weeks, said on Thursday that the agency had canceled its subscriptions to Politico Pro, a news and information service, after reviewing its media contracts. It was not immediately clear whether…
US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledge to deport non-citizen college students and other resident aliens who took part in pro-Palestinian protests, a White House official said. A fact sheet on the order said Trump would order the Justice Department to “aggressively prosecute terroristic threats, arson,…
“Presidents may come, presidents may go; professors may come, professors may go; students may come, students may go; but Dooley lives on forever!” Welcome to Emory University, where a skeleton holds the extraordinary power to cancel your classes! Meet Dooley, the Lord of Misrule, and the centerpiece of one of the university’s most unique traditions:…
The Education Department announced on Monday that it had canceled student loans for more than 150,000 borrowers, bringing the tally of Americans whose loans were forgiven under President Biden to over five million. The Biden administration reached the milestone even though many of its more ambitious plans to overhaul the nation’s system for administering student…
All men or mostly men — that’s true of all first rows of audiences at premium events. Not so for The Economic Times CEO Roundtable in Mumbai. We did this not just to break the mould but to reinforce the message of TOI ’s #CancelPatriarchy campaign. Women are front and centre of any change. Men…
KOLKATA: At least two daily flights between Kolkata and Dhaka and one between Kolkata and Chittagong have been cancelled by airlines operating between the two countries as passenger count continues to nosedive in the wake of continued unrest in Bangladesh, attacks on minorities and curbs on travel due to Indian visa restrictions.Bangladesh’s flag bearer, Biman…
In her new book, Melania, former First Lady Melania Trump has claimed that both she and her son, Barron Trump, faced financial discrimination in the wake of the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Melania alleged that a long-time banking partner terminated her account and denied her son the opportunity to open a new one, describing…