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Trump’s Harvard Funding Fight Hits Appeals Court With Billions and Federal Power on the LineWhat the First Circuit Is Really Deciding The First Circuit is weighing whether a federal judge had the power to restore billions in Harvard research funding after finding the government acted unlawfully. The Trump administration says the dispute belongs in the Court of Federal Claims because, at bottom, Harvard is seeking federal money. Harvard says…

USA Herald12h agoWhole story →

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Federal court sides with AG on Trump challenge to Virginia Dream ActAttorney General Jay Jones won a federal court victory in a suit brought by the Trump administration challenging the state’s Virginia Dream Act.

Augusta Free Press17h agoWhole story →

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Harvard Trump federal funding cuts appeal case BostonThe federal funding case reached the appellate court as part of several challenges the administration has made to District Court decisions that have ruled in Harvard’s favor, ranging from international student enrollment to antisemitism on campus.

The Boston Globe18h agoWhole story →

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Appeals court weighs judge's authority to restore Trump cuts to HarvardA federal appeals court has heard arguments over whether a judge had the authority to restore billions of dollars in funding that the Trump administration cut from Harvard University.

San Diego Union-Tribune18h agoWhole story →

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ICE deportation of Babson College student Any Lucia Lopez Belloza may set habeas corpus precedentA federal appeals court heard arguments on whether a Babson College student who was deported to Honduras around Thanksgiving 2025 — despite a judge's order — can finally have her case heard in Massachusetts.

MassLive18h agoWhole story →

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Before Cornell turmoil, successive US administrations seesawed in attitudes towards campus assaultsDemocratic and Republican administrations have taken different tacks in addressing campus sexual assault Amid renewed concerns about sexual assault on US college campuses following allegations that a student was gang-raped at a Cornell University fraternity, the Trump administration last week formally reversed measures from recent Democratic presidents…

The Guardian2d agoWhole story →

Should Big Oil pay for climate change? A Supreme Court case will help decide.Boulder, Colorado, is hoping its novel lawsuit will be the environmental equivalent of the landmark litigation that produced billions in damages and settlements against Big Tobacco and opioid makers.

The Washington Post2d agoWhole story →

Judge Temporarily Blocks Dep't of Education Release of Names of Individual Foreign Donors to U.S. CollegesFrom Judge Tanya Chutkan (D.D.C.) Thursday evening in Ass'n of Am. Univ. v. U.S. Dep't of Ed.: Section 117 of… The post Judge Temporarily Blocks Dep't of Education Release of Names of Individual Foreign Donors to U.S. Colleges appeared first on Reason Magazine.

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Governor says Tennessee's prisons chief is resigning after failed execution of Christa PikeThe head of Tennessee’s prison system is resigning after the failed execution of Christa Pike. The announcement was made by Gov. Bill Lee on Saturday. Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada said in a statement that stepping aside “is in the best interests” of the state as an independent review is carried out to determine why Pike’s…

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution3d agoWhole story →

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Obama Judge Tanya Chutkan Blocks Trump Education Department From Naming Foreign Donors Who Dumped Billions Into Harvard, Columbia, and Other Elite Campuses * The Gateway Pundit * by Jim HᴏftA federal judge in Washington, D.C., has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from publicly releasing the names of foreign donors and contract…

The Gateway Pundit3d agoWhole story →

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Federal judge ends desegregation order for south Arkansas’ Camden Fairview, Harmony Grove school districtsA decades-old federal court settlement restricting the transfer of white students from one south Arkansas school district to a neighboring school district is no longer in effect.

Arkansas Online4d agoWhole story →

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Rapper Future's Brother FBG Casino Reaches Plea Deal in Fentanyl CaseFuture's brother, FBG Casino, cut a plea deal in his fentanyl case ... after federal agents said they found 17 kilos worth of fentanyl in an Airbnb-turned-stash house.

TMZ4d agoWhole story →

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1st bill protects people with autism, disabilitiesThe first new bill filed for the 2027 General Assembly is a replay of an idea to make sure people with intellectual or developmental disability don’t send up in prison because they said something they didn’t understand they were saying to police.

Roanoke Times4d agoWhole story →

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NY governor says Cornell rape accuser was ‘failed’ by people obligated to protect herNew York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday that the woman who accused members of a Cornell University fraternity of gang rape was “failed” by people obligated to protect her, including police and the county prosecutor.

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NY AG Letitia James named special prosecutor in Cornell University gang rape, will take over for local DAGov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday appointed New York Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor to take over the newly reopened investigation into the alleged gang rape of a woman at a Cornell University frat house.

Spokane Spokesman-Review5d agoWhole story →

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Drug and gun crimes result in prison time for pair prosecutors linked to fentanyl overdose deathFAYETTEVILLE -- Two Northwest Arkansas men who prosecutors say were linked to a fentanyl overdose death have been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking and ammunition-related crimes.

Arkansas Online5d agoWhole story →

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Christa Pike is in critical condition after Tennessee’s failed execution attempt, her lawyers sayAttorneys for Christa Pike say the death row inmate is still alive but in critical condition a day after the state's failed attempt to execute her for the 1995 murder of a woman. The state tried to execute Pike by lethal injection on Wednesday but neither the initial nor backup dose of pentobarbital killed her. Pike was still snoring when the execution…

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution5d agoWhole story →

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Christa Pike in Hospital, Lawyer Wants Sentence CommutedA lawyer for Christa Pike called on Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to commute her death sentence after she survived her failed execution and said she's alive

Us Weekly5d agoWhole story →

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Lexington County man caught mailing thousands of fentanyl pills gets 10 yearsA 41-year-old Lexington County man has been sentenced to a decade in federal prison after federal and local agents intercepted outbound packages containing fentanyl

WIS105d agoWhole story →

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Tennessee governor calls Christa Pike's failed execution 'deeply disturbing' and calls for a reviewTennessee officials haven't yet explained what went wrong during the failed execution of Christa Pike, which was called off after she was given an initial and a backup dose of the drug meant to kill her. It wasn’t clear if Pike was still alive on Thursday. She could be heard snoring loudly in the execution chamber Wednesday night more than an hour after…

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution5d agoWhole story →

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