Trump admin plans to cancel $510 million funding over Ivy League school’s DEI policies, the White House confirmed Alex Shieh (@alexkshieh X), Russell Carey (campus-life.brown.edu) Brown University is threatening disciplinary action against a student for saying that the Trump administration plans to pull $510 million in federal funding over the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion
AIR FORCE ONE—President Donald Trump issued a forceful endorsement of former New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu, who has been mulling a run for Senate in the Granite State in 2026. Incumbent Democratic senator Jeanne Shaheen is retiring at the end of her term, setting up an open seat contest. Trump said he thinks Sununu will
“No specific memory”: That’s how former Columbia University president Katrina Armstrong responded to federal investigators who asked her about student activists calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. According to a transcript of her deposition at the Department of Health and Human Services obtained by Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson, Armstrong
Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux received a ‘promotion’ to associate vice president for campus climate, engagement, and success Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux (ccid.caltech.edu), Caltech Center for Inclusion & Diversity post (@CaltechCCID) The California Institute of Technology has changed the title of its top diversity official but kept the office she oversees intact, the latest example of how institutions are attempting
Al Sharpton used MSNBC airtime this weekend to promote a DEI-related boycott of PepsiCo that he launched through his activist group, National Action Network. It’s the latest instance in which Sharpton has blended his dual roles as MSNBC host and head of the nonprofit—a practice that has landed both Sharpton and the liberal network in
Former Columbia University president Katrina Armstrong told the federal government on Tuesday that she could not recall students calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. Nor could she recall hearing of allegations that students spit on their Jewish counterparts. Or that a member of the faculty had, in class, described Jewish donors to
Congratulations to Sen. Cory Booker for his record-breaking non-filibuster rant, which lasted 25 hours and 5 minutes. The previous record holder was South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond, who went 24 hours and 18 minutes. A source close to the late senator once told me Thurmond was equipped with something called a “motorman’s friend.” Could Booker have