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Trump administration freezes $1 billion in funding for Cornell University, $790 million for Northwestern University
The Trump administration is freezing $790 million in federal funding to Northwestern University and more than $1 billion in funding to Cornell University, a White House official told CNN.
”The money was frozen in connection with several ongoing, credible, and concerning Title VI investigations,” a Trump administration official said, referring to a federal statute that prohibits discrimination in programs and activities that receive federal funding.
The New York Times first reported the freeze on Northwestern and Cornell funding.
The move adds to similar actions the administration has taken against several elite universities, either demanding changes to their diversity, equity and inclusion programs, or in connection with their handling of protests against the war in Gaza.
Cornell is “aware of media reports” about the funding freezing, but has not received information that would confirm the $1 billion figure, it said in a statement. However, the university has received “more than 75 stop work orders from the Department of Defense related to research that is profoundly significant to American national defense, cybersecurity, and health.”
“We are actively seeking information from federal officials to learn more about the basis for these decisions,” the statement said, adding it has “worked diligently to create an environment where all individuals and viewpoints are protected and respected.”
In a statement to CNN, Northwestern University said it also found about the funding freeze from the media and hasn’t “received any official notification from the federal government.”
“Federal funds that Northwestern receives drive innovative and life-saving research, like the recent development by Northwestern researchers of the world’s smallest pacemaker, and research fueling the fight against Alzheimer’s disease,” the statement said. “This type of research is now at jeopardy. The University has fully cooperated with investigations by both the Department of Education and Congress.”
On March 14, the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, announced it had opened Title VI investigations into 45 universities, emphasizing it has “reiterated” the schools’ “civil rights obligations to end the use of racial preferences and stereotypes in education programs and activities.”
Last Friday, Harvard University received a letter outlining policy demands in order to keep $9 billion in federal funding. Some of the requests included the elimination of Harvard’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs and a ban on masks at campus protests, student-run newspaper The Harvard Crimson and other outlets reported.
Brown University also learned last week that $510 million in grant money was at risk as the Trump administration reviewed the university’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies and its response to antisemitism.
Princeton University and Columbia University have also suffered funding losses in recent weeks.
On Tuesday, the US Department of Commerce announced Princeton University would lose nearly $4 million in federal funding for climate research programs.
The funding cuts, tied to a review of grants under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reflect the administration’s effort to scale back support for programs it says do not align with its priorities. They come after the administration announced last week it has suspended research grants totaling $210 million to Princeton University as part of an ongoing investigation into antisemitism on campus.
The revocation of funding has left universities walking on eggshells, desperate to keep much-need funding. Students at Columbia University report a tense mood on campus after being center stage in the Trump administration’s multi-prong fight against protests at colleges around the country last year, including deportation efforts against some international students who took part in the demonstrations.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/us/cornell-northwestern-federal-funding-freeze/index.html
Doctors re-attach 'decapitated' Illinois woman's HEAD after she suffered horrific fall while exercising
An Illinois woman has revealed how a horrific sports accident left her on the verge of being 'internally decapitated' and made her life miserable.
Megan King was just 16 in 2005 when she leapt in the air to catch a soccer ball during gym class and fell to the ground, damaging her right ankle and spine and tearing the muscle off both shoulder blades.
The teenager spent more than a year on crutches. Instead of her symptoms subsiding, more appeared. King's joints weakened and her muscles began to tear, and her shoulder blades ached in unbearable pain.
Over the years, she underwent 22 surgeries on her shoulders and shoulder blades alone, with doctors mystified as to why her body couldn't heal.
It took 10 years for King to be diagnosed in 2015 with hypermobile Ehler's-Danlos syndrome (hEDS), a genetic disorder that stops collagen — a key joint tissue — from forming properly and leads to joint instability.
A year later, King's neck became dislocated and she was fitted with a Halo brace, a brutal contraption that screws directly into the skull to keep the neck from moving.
During the process to remove the device, her skull nearly became detached from her spine, an almost always deadly condition called internal decapitation or Atlanto-occipital dislocation (AOD).
King, now 35, said: 'I flew my chair back to keep gravity from decapitating me. My neurosurgeon had to hold my skull in place with his hands. I couldn't stand. My right side was shaking uncontrollably.'
King was rushed into emergency surgery, where doctors spent fused her skull back on to her spine.
'It was a horror show. I woke up unable to move my head at all,' she said.
She has now had 37 surgeries and is fused from her skull down to her pelvis, meaning she can no longer shift her head up, down, left or right.
A spinal fusion involves wo or more vertebrae - bones in the spine - are joined together to keep them from moving.
King said: 'I'm literally a human statue. My spine doesn't move at all. But that doesn't mean I've stopped living.'
AOD occurs when the occipital bone at the base of the skull detaches from the atlas, the first or C1, the topmost vertebrae in the spine.
The injury is fatal in over 90 percent of cases, as the damage disrupts nerve signals between the brain and the body, leading to paralysis around vital organs like the lungs and heart, impairing their function.
Stabilizing the head is crucial to keep it from separating further from the spine.
AOD is more commonly seen in children and adolescents because the bones are not fully developed yet and may still contain cartilage. They're also more likely to have proportionally larger heads and weaker neck muscles than adults.
About eight in 10 AOD cases are due to severe trauma like car crashes, though King's case was likely due to the combination of her fall in high school and her hEDS, the joint weakening condition she also suffers from.
AOD itself is rare, accounting for just one percent of all cervical spine injuries.
Now, King is fused from her skull to her pelvis and can't bend, twist or slouch.
However, she is slowly regaining her ability to get back to hobbies she had before that fateful fall 20 years ago. This includes a recent bowling outing.
She said: 'I didn’t plan on playing. I was just there to watch friends. But something in me said, "Why not try?"'
'I bowled a strike—on my very first try. My friends screamed and clapped and cheered like wild. They weren’t just celebrating the strike. They were celebrating everything I’ve survived.'
That one strike turned into three that night.
King said: 'I’m still learning what my new body can do.It’s not easy, but I’m adapting. And I’m always surprised by what I can still accomplish.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14600235/doctors-reattach-decapitated-illinois-woman-head-horrific-fall-exercising.html
There’s a rampant culture of fraud in the state of Minnesota now
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WorldPride Organizers Caution Trans Attendees About US Travel—As Sponsors Pull Out Of D.C.-Based LGBTQ Festival
WorldPride, a global LGBTQ rights festival set to start next month in Washington, D.C., is cautioning transgender attendees about traveling to the United States as the Trump administration cracks down on trans people through executive orders defining gender as either male or female based on sex assigned at birth.
Key Facts:
•Ryan Bos, executive director of WorldPride organizer Capital Pride Alliance, said this week he is weighing issuing a statement urging trans individuals not to travel to the United States to attend WorldPride, a global event that attracts thousands of international visitors.
•Some international LGBTQ organizations already said they would not participate in WorldPride this year, the Washington Post reported Friday, including the African Human Rights Coalition, which said attending the event would be unsafe for international trans visitors.
•Helen Kennedy, executive director of Canada’s largest LGBTQ organization, Egale Canada, told the Washington Post the group would not participate in WorldPride or any other U.S.-based Pride events this year, stating she “didn’t think it was safe for my staff, specifically my gender diverse staff.”
•Several European countries, including Denmark, Finland and Germany, have already warned LGBTQ travelers to be cautious entering the United States, particularly those who may have their gender listed as “X” on their passport.
•President Donald Trump’s day-one executive order mandated federal agencies to recognize sex as either male or female based on what was assigned at birth, which would impact passports and other forms of government identification.
•Capital Pride Alliance previously told Forbes federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton withdrew support from WorldPride this year to ensure it complies with President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion across the federal government.
•Forbes has reached out to Capital Pride Alliance for comment.
Where Else Are Sponsors Pulling Out Of Pride Marches?
Multiple Pride organizations confirmed to Forbes several corporate sponsors had withdrawn support this year or scaled back their commitments, in some cases costing these organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars, which they attributed to political and economic pressure. San Francisco Pride organizers told Forbes that media conglomerate Comcast and alcoholic beverage companies Anheuser-Busch and Diageo had pulled out this year, totaling $300,000 in lost corporate funds. Anheuser-Busch also withdrew support from St. Louis Pride, the organization said on Instagram in late March. Pride Houston told Forbes some organizations had slashed support by as much as 75%, leaving the organization $100,000 short. The organization’s board of directors said the “current political and economic climate has had a significant impact on sponsorship levels from corporations across a variety of sectors.” NYC Pride told Forbes some organizations scaled back budgets while others stalled on making decisions, though the organization declined to specify which companies had done so.
What Is Worldpride?
WorldPride is a global LGBTQ Pride festival held every few years by InterPride and a host city’s local LGBTQ organizations. This year’s festival is planned to run from May 17 to June 8 in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with Capital Pride Alliance. Previous hosts have included New York City in 2019, held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, as well as Sydney in 2023, Madrid in 2017 and Toronto in 2014. The events typically draw millions of visitors, including thousands from other countries. New York’s then-mayor Bill de Blasio said an estimated 5 million people attended New York’s WorldPride in 2019, making it the largest LGBTQ Pride event in history.
How Has The Trump Administration Targeted Trans People?
Trump has issued several executive orders specifically targeting the transgender community. His day-one executive order, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” directed the federal government to recognize sex as unchangeably male or female. He also issued an order banning trans troops from the military and another barring trans women from participating in women’s sports. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said this week the White House would not respond to reporters who specify their preferred pronouns in their email signatures.
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The missing Black demonstrators in anti-Trump protests
Nearly five years after fueling the largest protest movement in American history, Black activism stands at a generational, emotional and strategic crossroads.
Why it matters: Many of the Black Americans who flooded the streets in 2020 have stepped back from the renewed anti-Trump protests — torn between the urgency of the moment and the spiritual toll of relentless, often fruitless resistance.
The stakes are huge: President Trump's second-term agenda is openly hostile to DEI, police reform, and the civil rights protections that have underpinned racial progress for the last half-century.
But prominent Black activists tell Axios that rest does not equal retreat, and that the movement is evolving — in leadership, tone and tactics — for the long fight ahead.
Driving the news: Photos from last weekend's "Hands Off!" demonstrations — where millions protested DOGE cuts, immigration raids and mass federal layoffs — show a striking shift from 2020.
Most participants were older and white, as seen at rallies across the country and confirmed to Axios — a stark contrast to the multiracial, Black-led protests launched in the wake of George Floyd's murder.
Campus protests over Trump's immigration crackdown have drawn primarily white, Latino, and Asian American students, with Black participants largely absent from the front lines.
In Washington, D.C., Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House was quietly dismantled last month after funding threats from Republicans — a symbolic setback in what once was the epicenter of 2020's racial reckoning.
Zoom in: A viral video from last weekend showed Black Americans enjoying brunch in Atlanta — a historical hub of Black political power and culture — while white "Hands Off!" demonstrators marched outside.
Many Black advocates active in the 2020 racial reckoning protests have declared online that they're not interested in rejoining public demonstrations right now.
Others told Axios they're emotionally drained and need a "break" after the demoralizing defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black woman nominated for president by a major political party.
Harris won 86% of Black voters overall, but Trump improved his vote share among Black men from 19% in 2020 to 21% in 2024.
Some Black women saw Donald Trump's victory as a wake-up call to turn inward and prioritize self-care, especially after voters overlooked his record of racist comments for a second time.
"It's definitely a feeling of, 'I'm not going to push myself to the point of exhaustion,' " said Nina Smith, a strategist who has worked with the Movement for Black Lives. "The best way I can show up in this moment is to take care of myself."
The big picture: Some organizers say Black activism is shifting away from mass mobilization and toward quieter strategies: economic pressure campaigns, digital organizing and coalition-building behind the scenes.
Activists point to rising fears of targeted state violence under Trump, including the risk that Black protesters could be surveilled, detained or worse — a fear underscored by the treatment of legal residents caught up in immigration raids.
"People are trying to prepare themselves for the long haul here," said Steve Phillips, author of "How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good."
Between the lines: The movement also is undergoing a generational shift, as older figures from the Civil Rights era pass the baton to new voices who came of age in a more diverse America.
Rev. Jamal Bryant, who recently met with the legendary civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, launched a 40-day national boycott of Target over its rollback of DEI initiatives.
Political commentator Angela Rye has been quietly mobilizing leaders through private strategy sessions.
Latosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, has emphasized the importance of rest, recognizing that Black Americans have been fighting for generations.
The other side: In text message chains and on social media, some Black advocates chided others for resting amid Trump's multi-pronged assault on DEI and other racial justice priorities.
They pointed out that civil rights icons Rosa Parks and Ella Baker didn't let regular defeats or roadblocks stop them from organizing and protesting.
But Rev. William Barber, who has spoken at recent rallies dominated by white participants, told Axios it's foolish to think civil rights leaders didn't need to rest while facing racial violence and planning long marches.
"Ella Baker knew how to have a Saturday party. She'd get down with some spades and some bid whist," Barber said, referring to card games. "Nobody is saying that people need to be constantly on the move."
Phillips added that rest is an important part of resistance. "When Harriet Tubman rounded up folks to flee the plantation, they didn't go without breaks for sleeping, right?"
The bottom line: Activists say the streets may feel quieter, but the fight is far from over.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/12/missing-black-lives-matter-anti-trump-protests
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President Trump is coming to the opening of Les Misérables at the Kennedy Center on June 11 and doing a fundraiser.
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