5 h. ago More than 50 universities face federal investigations as part of Trump's anti

More than 50 universities are being investigated for alleged racial discrimination as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to end diversity and equity programs that his officials say exclude white and Asian American students

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7 h. ago JD Vance booed by classical music audience at Washington DC's Kennedy Center

Crowd unhappy with Donald Trump’s ‘anti-woke’ changes to American centre for culture

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51 h. ago What to know about US student Sudiksha Konanki, who vanished in Dominican Republic on spring break

Investigators are continuing the search for a college student from Virginia who vanished earlier this month while visiting the Dominican Republic

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51 h. ago Who is Mahmoud Khalil? The detained Columbia graduate praised as steady negotiator

Key figure in pro-Palestinian campus protests arrested by Ice known for kindness and skill for de-escalationMahmoud Khalil, the recent Columbia University graduate who was detained by Ice on Saturday night, was linked by Donald Trump, without evidence, to “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity”. But for those who know him, Khalil was a student, a steady negotiator and a leader whose activism placed him at the center of a national movement for Palestinian solidarity.Khalil, a Palestinian green card holder who is currently in immigration detention in Louisiana, was a lead negotiator for Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), a role that thrust him into the spotlight during the pro-Palestinian encampment protests last spring – long before his high-profile arrest. He gained a reputation among fellow protesters as a principled and strategic organizer, earning praise for his ability to de-escalate tense situations. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Dozens of colleges in Trump administration’s crosshairs for ‘anti

Department of Education warned colleges and universities across the country of the financial repercussions of what they characterize as failing to protect Jewish students

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3 d. ago New analysis reveals the extent of Fox News’ obsession with Trump’s anti

Of the 86 cable news segments on Trump’s orders targeting transgender people and rights, only 14 percent featured trans or gender non-conforming guests.

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4 d. ago Trump calls arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil ‘first of many to come’

President says in post his administration ‘will not tolerate’ actions of protesters at Columbia and other US universitiesDonald Trump said on Monday that the arrest of a prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protests last year, is the “first arrest of many to come”.“We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it,” the US president wrote in a post on Truth Social. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Minority Rule by Ash Sarkar review: A light in the dark for leftists

There are occasional moments, on social media, that become larger than themselves. It was the intense summer heatwave of 2018, and I had just opened Twitter during the lunch break of my summer job. For a moment, it seemed like there was a glitch – my entire feed was flooded with one video playing on a loop, shared, liked and signal-boosted by hundreds of thousands of people. It showed an exasperated 26-year-old journalist being interviewed about an anti-Trump protest on Good Morning Britain by Piers Morgan, shouting the words that would propel her to fame: “I’m literally a communist, you idiot!”.

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7 d. ago Trump is concentrating power. A key faction of judges supports the idea | Jan

The ‘unitary executive’ theory – backed by some conservative lawyers – is largely bogus. But it could wreak havoc on democracyWhile Democrats are dithering and debating with consultants about which anti-Trumpian strategy to adopt, courts are confronted with an unprecedented power grab by the president. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are simply not spending money appropriated by Congress, which in turn is unwilling to play its constitutional role and assert the power of the purse. Entire agencies are de facto dismantled – which is also unconstitutional – and civil servants protected from removal by a president keep getting pink slips.The illegality of it all seems so obvious that one would think defenders of democracy could relax and trust judges to do the right thing. But it’s not just that some judges seem to be in the president’s pocket – as evidenced by Trump, after his address to Congress, patting the supreme court’s chief justice on the back and thanking him for a favor he won’t fo...

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9 d. ago ‘Standing up against the devil’: how the far right tried to co

In the US, Todd Komarnicki’s biopic of the theologian murdered by the Nazis was marketed using Maga rhetoric. The film-maker explains the heartbreak this caused himA Hollywood veteran’s biopic about an anti-Nazi resistance martyr, which was nearly engulfed by the Trump-era culture wars during its US release, is on its way to Europe this month, with the director hoping its message against the extreme right lands this time.The movie Bonhoeffer is based on the true story of pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed at the Flossenbürg concentration camp on the orders of Adolf Hitler in April 1945, just weeks before the Nazi leader’s own suicide. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Donald Trump fan says 'Heil Hitler' as Elon Musk is dubbed an 'illegal alien'

The shocking comments were made by a Trump fan watching an anti-Elon Musk rally in New York – as a protestor told the MAGA woman what was wrong with her comments

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2 w. ago Brookfield buys National Grid’s renewables business in US for $1.7bn

Asset manager upbeat on sector despite Donald Trump’s anti-green agenda

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3 w. ago ‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right

In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists todayIs Donald Trump a feminist?There was a time when anyone asking such a question could reasonably expect to be laughed out of the room. Yet, just three weeks into Trump’s second term, the man responsible for stripping women in the US of the right to an abortion was declared a “feminist kween”, “feminist hero” and “feminist icon” by several prominent feminist writers in the UK. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Watch live: Trump hosts Black History Month reception at White House after anti

Watch live as Donald Trump hosts a Black History Month reception at the White House on Thursday, 20 February.

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3 w. ago Watch: Trump hosts Black History Month reception at White House after anti

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3 w. ago Would Jesus help homeless trans people? Justice Department lawyers won’t ‘speculate’ in military ban hearing

Judge Ana Reyes argues Trump’s anti-trans order is fueled by ‘animus’

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3 w. ago These Republican senators have broken away from Trump after controversial Ukraine post

Senate Republicans balked at Trump’s anti-Ukraine rhetoric after the president took aim at Zelensky in an unhinged social media post

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3 w. ago To the CEOs who’ve joined Trump’s fight against diversity, I say this: you’re making a big mistake | Stefan Stern

Ditching DEI initiatives will curry favour in the Oval Office. It will also alienate the workforces bosses rely onThe mask has slipped and the gloves are off. A company which in 2022 boasted that it had exceeded its target, “spending $1.26 billion with US certified diverse suppliers”, is now ending diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.That company is Meta (formerly known as Facebook), whose chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, announced DEI dismantling shortly before he had a prominent seat at Donald Trump’s recent inauguration. Perhaps from that privileged spot he was able to imbibe some of the “masculine energy” he says he wants to see at work.Stefan Stern is co-author of Myths of Management and the former director of the High Pay Centre. His latest book is Fair or Foul: the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘It comes from racism’: immigrant workers on Trump’s deportation push

The president’s actions have sent a wave of terror through the community that underpins much of the US economyDonald Trump has ramped up anti-immigration fervor into his second presidency, promising mass deportations, pushing to increase arrests and bolstering public relations efforts to amplify arrests. The moves have sent a wave of terror through the undocumented worker community that underpins large parts of the US economy.“Every day I wake up and walk out the door, I go with the hope of going to work, but with the fear of not being able to come back,” said a construction worker and single parent in Texas who obtained immigration protection under the Biden administration. She requested to remain anonymous due to fears about her immigration status. Continue reading...

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