Columbia Caves to Trump in First Stage of $430 Million Funding Fight

The school will ban masks at protests, empower campus police, and implement other reforms to unlock ‘long-term’ negotiations with federal regulators L: President Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) R: Anti-Israel protesters at Columbia (Alex Kent/Getty Images) Columbia University ceded to the Trump administration’s demands in the opening stages of its efforts to restore more than $430 million in

Columbia University Makes Policy Changes in Response to Trump Admin’s Demands to Combat Anti-Semitism

The Trump administration had pulled $400 million in federal grants to the university over its alleged failure to address anti-Semitism. Columbia University Interim President Katrina Armstrong announced on March 21 that the university has agreed to implement a raft of policy changes in response to the Department of Education’s requirements for combatting campus anti-Semitism in

US Will Import Eggs From Turkey, South Korea: Agriculture Secretary

Rollins said the administration would move back to ‘our internal egg layers’ once chicken populations are repopulated again. Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins said on March 21 that the Trump administration is now importing millions of eggs from South Korea and Turkey and that other nations will likely contribute in the ensuing weeks. “Right now, we’ve

The People, United: Everyone Hates Chuck Schumer’s New Book About Anti-Semitism, Even His Former Intern

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) is not having a very good month. The Senate minority leader was supposed to be on tour promoting his new book, Anti-Semitism in America: A Warning, but the tour was postponed due to security concerns after Schumer’s refusal to shut down the government infuriated his fellow Democrats, as well as

Trump Says He Will Personally Cover Returned Astronauts’ Overtime Pay If NASA Doesn’t

‘If I have to, I’ll pay it out of my own pocket,’ the president told members of the media in the Oval Office. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams should be paid more after their eight-day test flight of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft turned into a nearly 10-month post on the International Space Station,