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In the news today: Harvard’s challenge to the Trump administration could test limits of government power; a judge presses the Trump administration on its refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador; and Sudan’s civil war enters its third year. Also, a Michigan community forms a human chain to move over 9,000 books.
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Students protesting against the war in Gaza at an encampment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. in April 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Harvard’s challenge to the Trump administration could test limits of government power |
On one side is Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university. On the other side is the Trump administration. Both sides are digging in for a clash that could test the limits of the government’s power and the independence that has made U.S. universities a destination for scholars around the world. Read more.
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On Monday, Harvard became the first university to openly defy the Trump administration as it demands sweeping changes to limit activism on campus. The university frames the government’s demands as a threat not only to the Ivy League school but also to the autonomy that the Supreme Court has long granted American universities.
No university is better positioned to put up a fight than Harvard, whose $53 billion endowment is the largest in the nation. But like other major universities, Harvard also depends on the federal funding that fuels its scientific and medical research.
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For the Trump administration, Harvard presents the first major hurdle in its attempt to force change at universities that Republicans say have become hotbeds of liberalism and antisemitism. Some conservatives have suggested that if Harvard wants independence, it should follow the example of colleges that forgo federal funding to be free of government influence.
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US judge presses Trump administration on its refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia |
A federal judge said Tuesday that she will order sworn testimony by Trump administration officials to determine if they complied with her orders to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison. Read more. |
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U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland issued her order after Trump officials continued to refuse to retrieve Abrego Garcia. She said they defied a “clear” Supreme Court order. She also downplayed Monday’s comments by White House officials and El Salvador’s president that they were unable to bring back Abrego Garcia.
Xinis wrote that Trump administration officials “have done nothing at all” toward returning Abrego Garcia. She wrote they “remain obligated, at a minimum, to take the steps available to them toward aiding, assisting, or making easier Abrego Garcia’s release.”
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An attorney for Abrego Garcia said contempt proceedings could be the logical next step after the fact-finding phase. “This is still a win, and this is still progress,” Rina Ghandi said.
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Famine and atrocities mount as Sudan’s civil war enters its third year
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As Sudan marks two years of civil war on Tuesday, atrocities and famine are mounting in what the United Nations calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Read more. |
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Last month, the Sudanese military secured a major victory by recapturing the capital of Khartoum from its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. But that has only moved the war into a new phase that could end up with a de facto partition of the country.
Half the population of 50 million faces hunger. The World Food Program has confirmed famine in 10 locations and says it could spread, putting millions in danger of starvation. Sudan has also been hit by multiple outbreaks of cholera, malaria and dengue in the past two years.
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The war erupted on April 15, 2023, after months of tension between the head of the military, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the RSF’s commander, Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo. The two were once allies in suppressing Sudan’s movement for democracy and civilian rule but turned on each other in a struggle for power.
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Supporters of Serendipity Books pass the store's books hand to hand, Sunday, in Chelsea, Mich. (Burrill Strong via AP)
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