The New York Police Department arrested a keffiyeh-clad Columbia University alumna who set up a tent outside a main campus gate on Monday afternoon. She was engaged in an anti-Israel protest alongside roughly two dozen masked agitators, including about 10 who chained themselves to the entryway. UPDATE: The NYPD has arrested an anti-Israel protester at
Ivy League university charges admin with violating law that governs federal grants and loans Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) and Alan Garber (Harvard) Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday, arguing that the administration violated its constitutional rights when it froze more than $2 billion in Harvard grants and contracts. Without
INDIANAPOLIS—“It’s not food. It’s food-like substances.” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described the many manufactured food products offered that are high in calories but low in nutritional value. “So, strawberry flavoring in food, but there’s no nutrients. It’s sugar.” Kennedy said. “Your body is craving that, but it doesn’t get filled
The federal judiciary’s policymaking body also has warned that the court system is underfunded and vulnerable amid rising threats to judges. Two top House Judiciary Democrats have called on U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to request more help from Congress to protect federal judges and court personnel, citing an alarming surge in threats
The president offered condolences to those affected by the pope’s death. WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is planning on attending Pope Francis’s funeral with First Lady Melania Trump in Rome in the coming days, he announced on April 21 on his Truth Social platform. “We look forward to being there,” Trump wrote. The president earlier ordered flags
The lawsuit was filed as the administration plans to withhold another $1 billion from the university. Harvard University has sued the Trump administration, asking a federal court to unfreeze billions of dollars in federal contracts and grants that the president is withholding due to what officials say is the Ivy League school’s refusal to end
The Supreme Court earlier this month blocked a previous order issued by the same judge that reinstated laid-off employees. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to provide laid-off federal probationary employees with a written notice stating that they were not terminated for performance reasons but that it was part of a government-wide termination effort.