14 h. ago Harvard faculty organize amid anxiety that the college will capitulate to Trump

Elite schools like Harvard weigh the costs of standing up to Trump as some, such as Princeton, signal it won’t concedeThe day after the Trump administration announced a review of $9bn in federal contracts and grants with Harvard due to what it claimed was the university’s failure to combat antisemitism on campus, the university’s president, Alan Garber, sent an email to the Harvard community titled: Our resolve.“When we saw the Garber statement’s subject line, everybody thought: ‘Oh, great, Harvard’s going to stand up!” said Jane Sujen Bock, a board member of the Coalition for a Diverse Harvard, a group of alumni founded in 2016 amid a legal battle over affirmative action. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump aides draft proposal for 20% tariffs on ‘most imports’ to US as Liberation Day deadline looms: Live

Trump’s team says it is still weighing options as the president prepares to announce a sweeping round of reciprocal tariffs that threatens to trigger U.S. recession and a global trade war

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4 d. ago Prince Andrew sex abuse accuser having 'four days left to live' is 'karma', his ex claims

Virginia Giuffre posted an emotional picture on Instagram to say goodbye to her followers as she only has "days left to live" but Prince Andrew's ex-girlfriend posted a scathing response

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4 d. ago Rosie O'Donnell's estranged daughter sentenced after arrest on drug charges

The 27-year-old was sentenced to just six years probation during a hearing Monday in Oconto County, Wisconsin and faces a possible jail sentence if that probation is violated.

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1 week ago Los Angeles moves to take control of homelessness agency, citing audits that found reckless spending

Los Angeles officials have moved to take control of hundreds of millions of dollars in homelessness spending after two scathing audits found the government agency currently responsible for that money has spent it recklessly and without transparency

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1 week ago US war plans leak shows Five Eyes allies must ‘look out for ourselves’, says Mark Carney

Signal blunder likely to put strain on Five Eyes as it weighs how Trump administration handles classified informationCanada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has said the inadvertent leak of classified military plans by senior US officials means that allied nations must increasingly “look out for ourselves” as trust frays with a once-close ally.Speaking a day after it was revealed that a journalist was accidentally included in a group chat discussing airstrikes against Yemeni rebels, Carney said the intelligence blunder was a “serious, serious issue and all lessons must be taken”. He said it would be critical to see “how people react to those mistakes and how they tighten them up”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Rosie O'Donnell weighs in on Trump's scathing response to her self

Rosie O'Donnell has weighed in after the Prime Minister of Ireland's visit to the White House was hijacked by jokes about her self-deportation.

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1 week ago International students weigh new risks of pursuing higher education in the US under Trump

As colleges and universities respond to Trump administration directives to change how they operate, educators worry that fewer international students will want to study in the U.S.

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1 week ago Rosie O’Donnell says Trump’s win should be ‘investigated’ as ‘one of his best friends runs the internet’

‘I would hope that we would be able to look at all of the reasons why this happened in our country,’ said O’Donnell

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1 week ago Rosie O'Donnell floats bizarre conspiracy theory about Elon Musk after fleeing US after election

Rosie O'Donnell has fled the US for Ireland, citing fear for her family's safety under Trump and suggesting a bizarre conspiracy theory about the election.

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2 w. ago Trump weighs in on report King Charles will offer U.S. membership to British Commonwealth: ‘Sounds good!’

Trump indicates willingness to have America become 57th Commonwealth member

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2 w. ago Rosie O’Donnell says she’s ‘healthier’ and ‘sleeping better’ after leaving the United States

‘It's not easy to move to another country, and we really felt as a family this was the safest and best thing for us to do,’ she said

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2 w. ago Rosie O'Donnell's sad admission about moving to a new country after fleeing America when Trump took office

The talk show host, 62, opened up about how she and her 12-year-old kid Clay have been adjusting to life in a new country in a TikTok video, which she posted on Thursday.

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2 w. ago Trump administration weighs deep cuts to CDC’s HIV prevention program

LGBT+ groups and public health advocates warn against potential threats that could jeopardize progress and ‘set us back decades’

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2 w. ago White House calls judge challenging Trump deportation order a ‘Democrat activist’

Press secretary says judge who weighed legality of Trump deportation order ‘does not have that authority’The White House on Wednesday labeled the federal judge challenging the Trump administration on whether it defied his court order to halt flights deporting migrants without a hearing “a Democrat activist”.The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, singled out by name at a White House press briefing federal judge James Boasberg, who weighed the legality of Donald Trump’s deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, and is now evaluating the government’s compliance. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Fed cuts US growth forecast as Trump’s policies weigh on outlook

Central bank also lifts inflation projection as chair Jay Powell warns of tariff impact

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2 w. ago Trump calls for impeachment of judge weighing Alien Enemies deportation case – live

US president’s post marks a significant escalation of rightwing attacks on the judiciary; judge tells White House to provide more details about deportation flights by noon ETWhite House’s defense for not recalling deportations ‘one heck of a stretch’, says judgeDonald Trump has called for the impeachment of the judge handling lawsuits over his administration’s deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members, a significant escalation of rightwing attacks on the judiciary.While allies of the president such as Elon Musk have repeatedly said judges who rule against him should be impeached, this appears to be the first time the president has backed such calls publicly. Trump’s post on Truth Social does not name the judge, but seems to reference James Boasberg, the Washington DC-based justice who was appointed by Barack Obama and attempted to prevent the government from deporting the alleged gang members under the Alien Enemies Act. Here’s what Trump wrote:This Radical Left Lunatic of a ...

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2 w. ago Can Trump actually void Biden pardons? Legal experts weigh in on the president's shock move

President Donald Trump claimed that President Joe Biden's pardons were 'void' and 'vacant' because he used an autopen. What legal experts have to say in response to the accusations.

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3 w. ago Russia says operation to remove Ukrainian troops from Kursk in final stages as Putin makes surprise visit

Russia’s president orders top commanders to defeat Ukrainian forces in Kursk as soon as possible as he weighs Donald Trump’s 30-day ceasefire proposal

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3 w. ago MTG’s boyfriend Brian Glenn asks Irish PM ‘why in the world’ he let Rosie O’Donnell move there

‘Why in the world would you let Rosie O’Donnell move to Ireland?! I think she is going to lower your happiness levels!’ Brian Glenn wondered on Wednesday.

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