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News Articles: Trump administration

Students walk through Harvard Yard.

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  • Education

Lawyers for Harvard and Trump square off in court in Boston

With more than $2 billion in federal research grants at stake, the two sides argued before a federal judge about the legality of the White House's cancellation of those funds to Harvard.

July 21, 2025
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By:
  • Emily Piper-Vallillo and
  • Elissa Nadworny
A Venezuelan migrant who was jailed in El Salvador gestures as he gets off a plane at Simon Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, Venezuela on Friday. El Salvador freed scores of Venezuelans deported from the United States to a notorious maximum security prison, the outcome of a highly coordinated prisoner swap between Caracas and Washington.

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  • Latin America

10 Americans are freed by Venezuela in a prisoner swap for migrants in El Salvador

Venezuela has freed 10 Americans in exchange for Venezuelans whom the United States had sent to a prison in El Salvador.

July 18, 2025
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By:
  • Manuel Rueda

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  • Politics

Here's a list of Trump's tariff letters so far and the rates they threaten

Finding it hard to track the latest U.S. trade policy state of play? Here's a look the deals the president has announced and the rates he's so far threatened to impose in letters to global leaders.

July 12, 2025
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By:
  • Danielle Kurtzleben
Nigeria's government is pushing back against U.S. efforts to send the country migrants and foreign prisoners, with Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar, seen here at a summit in Brazil this year, quoting Public Enemy to drive home his point.

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  • Africa

Nigeria says it won't accept deportees from U.S.: 'We have enough problems of our own'

Nigeria's government is pushing back against U.S. efforts to send the country migrants and foreign prisoners, with Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar quoting Public Enemy to drive home his point.

July 11, 2025
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
A Harvard sign is seen at Harvard University's campus in May.

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  • Education

Federal investigation finds Harvard violated civil rights law

The Trump administration has issued a notice of violation accusing Harvard University of "deliberate indifference" toward Jewish and Israeli students.

July 01, 2025
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
President Trump announces that his administration has reached a deal with elite law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom during a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office in March 2025.

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  • Law

A fourth judge has blocked a Trump executive order targeting elite law firms

The ruling, involving the firm Susman Godfrey, marks the fourth time out of four that a federal judge has permanently blocked one of Trump's executive orders seeking to punish an elite law firm.

June 27, 2025
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
The State Department, which administers the Fulbright Program. Eleven members of the 12-person Fulbright board have resigned over alleged Trump administration interference.

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  • Politics

Almost all of the Fulbright board resigns, citing Trump administration interference

Former Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board members said the Trump administration usurped their authority by denying awards to "a substantial number" of the individuals it had selected for the program.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A mix of former and current CDC employees rallied across the street from the CDC main campus Tuesday to call for the resignation of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the afternoon following Kennedy's disbanding on the CDC advisory panel on immunizations.

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  • Health

Outrage in Atlanta over 'embarrassing and heartbreaking' changes made to CDC by federal government

Current and former employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are angered by a recent decision by Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to upend an advisory committee that makes vaccine recommendations. 

June 11, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
The Widener Library on the Harvard University Campus in Cambridge, Mass. The Trump administration issued a proclamation banning students from entering the U.S. to study at Harvard. This is one of the latest moves in the escalation between the president and elite colleges.

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  • Education

All the ways the Trump administration is going after colleges and universities

In seeking to reshape elite universities, the Trump administration is using several tactics, including freezing federal grants and contracts, and threatening colleges' tax-exempt status.

June 10, 2025
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
Travelers pass through Newark Liberty International Airport's international terminal after President Trump's new travel ban took effect on Monday.

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  • Politics

Trump's travel ban is now in effect. Here's what to know

The ban, which revives a controversial measure from Trump's first term, took effect Monday morning. Here's what to know about who's affected, who's exempt and how foreign leaders are responding.

June 09, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
FBI Director Kash Patel speaks with Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum last month.

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  • Law

FBI Director Patel, a longtime bureau critic, begins to put his stamp on the agency

Since taking the helm more than 100 days ago, Patel has yet to shutter the FBI headquarters and reopen it as a museum as he once said he would, but he has begun trying to remake the bureau.

June 05, 2025
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
Then-President Joe Biden and President-elect Trump arrive for Trump's inauguration ceremony in January. Trump said Wednesday he had commissioned an investigation into his predecessor's administration.

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  • Politics

Trump orders a probe into the Biden administration and its alleged autopen use

Trump alleges the Biden administration used a machine to sign key documents, as many presidents do. Biden says he made policy decisions himself: "Any suggestion that I didn't is ridiculous and false."

June 05, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
An aerial view of severe flooding in Frankfort, Kentucky, caused by days of heavy rainfall on April 7, 2025. Violent storms battering the central-eastern United States killed at least 17 people. The storms came as the National Weather Service was grappling with nearly 600 job cuts by the Trump administration. Now, the NWS has been given authorization to rehire more than 100 forecasters, radar technicians and others.

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  • Weather

Stabilizing 'operations,' the National Weather Service hires again after Trump cuts

The National Weather Service says it plans to hire more than 100 additional staff members. The move follows complaints and concerns after the Trump administration eliminated more than 500 positions.

June 03, 2025
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By:
  • Greg Allen
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security sign is displayed at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters on May 18 in Washington, D.C.

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  • USPS

Homeland Security pulls down list of 'sanctuary' cities and counties after backlash

The list included dozens of cities and counties that DHS said was in noncompliance with federal statutes and had come under intense criticism from some mayors and law enforcement.

June 02, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
President Trump and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman walk in the old district on the outskirts of the Saudi capital Riyadh on May 13. Trump announced several big economic agreements on his recent trip to the Middle East, but said little about the conflicts in the region.

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  • World

Trump's foreign policy: deals with allies over diplomacy with rivals

When President Trump talks about his foreign policy, he often frames it as a business deal. He says much less about conventional diplomacy, like ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

May 28, 2025
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By:
  • Greg Myre
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