US freezes funding for more universities

The Reuters news agency is reporting that the Trump administration has frozen more than $1bn in funding for Cornell University and $790m for Northwestern University while it investigates both schools over civil rights violations.

A US official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the funding being paused includes mostly grants and contracts with the federal departments of health, education, agriculture and defence.

The move comes weeks after the Trump administration sent a letter to 60 universities, including Cornell and Northwestern, warning of action if a review determined the schools had failed to stop what it called anti-Semitism.

Last week, the government announced a review of $9bn in grants and contracts to Harvard University, and last month, it cancelled $400m in funding for Columbia University, the epicentre of last year’s pro-Palestinian campus protests.

Trump has called the student protesters anti-Semitic, labelling them as sympathetic to Hamas and foreign policy threats. Protesters, including some Jewish groups, say the Trump administration wrongly conflates their criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza and advocacy for Palestinian rights with being anti-Jewish and supporting Hamas.

Judge gives US government one day to show evidence for deporting Mahmoud Khalil

An immigration judge in the US state of Louisiana has ordered the Trump administration to provide evidence justifying their attempt to deport the Columbia University student activist within 24 hours.

“If he’s not removable, I’m going to be terminating this case on Friday,” Judge Jamee Comans said during a hearing at the LaSalle Immigration Court earlier on Tuesday.

Khalil, 30, has been held in a remote detention facility in Jena, Louisiana, following his arrest in New York City on March 8. If the government’s deportation case is terminated at the hearing, scheduled for Friday afternoon, Khalil, 30, is free under immigration law.

At Tuesday’s hearing, a lawyer for Khalil, Marc Van Der Hout, said he had “not received a single document” in response to his request for “evidence and assertions” in the case. “We cannot plead until we know what the specific allegations are,” Van Der Hout said.

“I’m like you Mr Van Der Hout. I’d like to see the evidence,” the judge replied.

Department of Homeland Security lawyers told Comans they would provide the evidence by her 5pm Wednesday deadline.

The immigration case is separate from a challenge to the legality of his March arrest, known as a habeas corpus petition.

A War on the First Amendment: David Cole on Trump Targeting Students, Law Firms, Schools & More

An immigration judge has announced she could rule as early as Friday on whether the Trump administration can continue to detain Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student protest leader incarcerated at an immigrant detention center in Louisiana. Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the United States, was seized by federal agents on March 8 and told his green card had been revoked.

His case comes as many legal scholars say the country is facing a constitutional crisis on a number of fronts — from the Trump administration's threats to ignore judicial decisions, to its targeting of law firms, to its use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to expel Venezuelan immigrants without due process. Trump "is trying to neutralize the opposition," says David Cole, professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and former ACLU national legal director. "He wants to violate the law with impunity."

My uncle just brushed off that Trump was talking about deporting (violent) US citizens. 

So frustrating. 

There we go, the bitch caved once again.

The lack of respect that China has shown to the World's Markets? Lmao. It was America that caused Japan, South Korea, Europe's markets to crash. China still has a 125% tariff and Trump is desperately trying to isolate China now by claiming they're ripping off other countries too. A 90 day pause on all other countries and a much lower tariff of 10% for them all, only on countries which didn't retaliate, even though EU did retaliate, Lol.

Markets were right once again in calling his bluff.

This was Trump earlier today...

LMAO. Whatever happened to "Liberation Day"?

I wonder if he realized it might end up being kind of hazardous to his health to continuously lose rich people so much money.

Trump pauses tariffs.

See you all in 90 days from now for round...I think we're at 3 now? Maybe 4? When Trump threatens bigly tariffs, crashes the market, then caves once again, achieving absolutely nothing new, so he can claim he shit his pants on purpose and then cleaned up his shitty diaper and that's why he's such a genius and his Republican cult claps along at him shitting himself on purpose.

Or this is all just one massive stock market manipulation and Trump is crashing the market on purpose so his billionaire friends can buy shit for cheap, I mean, he straight up posted hours before caving to "buy" Lol.

Get ready for Liberation Day Part 2 on 8 July 2025!

The tariffs on China though are still going to be horrific for small businesses in America and everyday Americans considering how much shit comes from China and while Trump is desperately trying to isolate China upon realising he can't take on the entire world at the same time, I'm not certain that China will care too much, it isn't like Xi Jinping has to worry about elections or anything, Lol.

At least this will give Nintendo the chance to launch the Switch 2.