The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been embroiled in a complex civil rights and funding crisis that has unfolded over the past year. At the center of the controversy are accusations by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) that the university failed to adequately address antisemitic incidents on campus. These allegations have…
Trump executive order gives political control over federal science funding. (AI Image) Trump hands political appointees control over science funding: Here’s why researchers are sounding the alarmPresident Trump has signed an executive order that grants political appointees increased authority over the allocation of billions of dollars in federal grants across various US government agencies. The…
Chicago public schools to receive $76 million state funding boost Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will receive an additional $76 million in state funding this fiscal year, bringing the total to $1.9 billion, according to recently released state data reported by Chalkbeat. This increase reflects a notable decline in local tax revenues and a growing number…
In 2025, a surprising trend is unfolding across US higher education: some of the country’s wealthiest and most prestigious universities are laying off staff in large numbers. With endowments in the tens of billions, institutions like Harvard, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins might seem financially bulletproof. But this year’s sweeping federal funding cuts have revealed just…
Harvard University, long regarded as a global epicenter of academic research, now finds itself at an unexpected impasse. With nearly $2.6 billion in federal research funding withdrawn, entire laboratories have ground to a halt, leaving promising breakthroughs in limbo, as reported by the Associated Press. Cryogenic freezers preserve years of blood samples and data collected…
President Donald Trump’s administration has frozen $584 million in federal funding for the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA said on Wednesday after the government reprimanded the university over pro-Palestinian protests. Significant number of protests occurred at UCLA last year. Demonstrators, among them Jewish organisations, argue that the government mistakenly conflates their criticism of Israel’s…
JAMMU: A special NIA court in Jammu framed charges against three Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), J&K, operatives and a trust on Tuesday, for allegedly raising and utilising funds to further the activities of the proscribed outfit in violation of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967.The accused are Amir Mohammad Shamsi from Rajouri’s Rehtal; Abdul Hamid Ganai…
The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a long time vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects,…
A top aide to Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, has accused India of funding the Russia-Ukraine war through its continued purchase of Russian oil. Miller stated, “it is not acceptable for India to continue financing this war by purchasing the oil from Russia.” He noted that people would be shocked to learn that India is nearly…
US President Donald Trump In an unprecedented reconfiguration of the relationship between higher education and the federal government, several of the United States’ most prestigious universities have capitulated, some quietly, others under public scrutiny—to the hardball tactics of President Donald Trump’s administration. Under threat of losing billions in federal research funding, elite institutions have agreed…