Inter-American Foundation: Federal judge blocks Donald Trump’s attempt to dismantle Inter-American Foundation

[ad_1] File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: PTI) A US federal judge on Friday blocked US President Donald Trump’s move to dismantle the Latin America development agency, Inter-American Foundation (IAF), ruling that the administration likely overstepped its authority when it removed the agency’s leadership and froze its grants.US district judge Loren AliKhan, an […]

Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be returned to US? Here’s what a federal judge said

[ad_1] A federal judge ordered that Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia has to be brought back to the US by April 7. Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last month has to be brought back to the US no later than 11.59 pm on April 7, a federal judge […]

Brown university faces threat of losing $510 million in federal funds amid anti-semitism crackdown

[ad_1] The Trump administration is preparing to block $510 million in federal contracts and grants to Brown University, as part of a wider campaign to crack down on what it described as relentless anti-semitism on university campuses, as per two White House officials familiar with the plans.Brown is now the fifth American university to face […]

No toilet paper, privacy, or parking: Federal workers’ rough return to office

[ad_1] AI-generated image (For representative purposes only) As federal workers in US return to work in phases after President Donald Trump’s swearing-in, some of them were sent back home as their offices lacked basic necessities like toilet paper, parking space, chair, food and even privacy.Nearly 1 million employees who had been working remotely or in […]

Who is Rumeysa Ozturk? Out to break Ramadan fast, Turkish student arrested by US federal agents for allegedly supporting Hamas

[ad_1] Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was taken into custody by ICE agents near her home on Tuesday. (X) Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student at Tufts University, was “ambushed” by federal immigration officers near her off-campus residence in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Tuesday.She is a human rights activist and scholar. She […]

Watch: Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk detained by federal immigration agents in masks and plain clothes

[ad_1] Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by ICE agents in masks A Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University was detained on Tuesday by the federal immigration agents over her pro-Palestinian activism. In a surveillance video, six immigration agents could be seen in plain clothes and had covered their faces with masks when they came […]

Columbia University bows to federal pressure, agrees to policy changes amid antisemitism row

[ad_1] Columbia University agreed to a series of policy changes after the Trump administration froze $400 million in federal funding over concerns about antisemitism on campus. These measures include a mask ban, new disciplinary protocols, and granting campus police the authority to make arrests.The Ivy League institution, which had become a focal point for violent […]