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'If You Can Keep It': Higher Education Funding

Apr 14 2025 34 mins  
The Trump administration is threatening to pull billions of dollars in funding from top universities across the country.Last week, it froze $1 billion meant for Cornell University and $750 million meant for Northwestern University. The two schools are currently being investigated for alleged antisemitism on campus.And last month, the administration canceled $400 million in grants a

The News Roundup For April 11, 2025

Apr 11 2025 81 mins  
This week the Supreme Court told the Trump administration Thursday that it must "facilitate" the release and retrieval of a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador.After announcing tariffs on almost every country in the world last week, President Donald Trump announced this week that he was pausing reciprocal tariffs for 90 days. Except for those on China.H

Protecting Your Finances Amid Tariff-Fueled Tumult

Apr 10 2025 34 mins  
It's safe to say there's been a lot of confusion and even panic in the wake of President Donald Trump's tariff announcement last week — investors are confused, the markets are confused, even the president's Republican colleagues are confused.But what do these tariffs mean for working people? Especially as many have seen their personal wealth take a sizable hit and their budgets l

How Did This Get Here: Your Car

Apr 09 2025 34 mins  
The auto industry is already reeling from President Donald Trump's new tariffs. They've only been in effect for about six days, but the response was immediate.On the same day those tariffs went live, Stellantis temporarily paused production at plants in Canada and Mexico. The company also temporarily laid off 900 U.S. workers. And Volkswagen said it's planning to add an import fee

The Future Of America's National Parks

Apr 08 2025 34 mins  
People visited U.S. National Park sites a record 331 million times last year. Were you one of them? If you were, and plan to visit any National Parks this year though, staff cuts might mean a different kind of experience. At the direction of Elon Musk's DOGE entity, the Department of the Interior fired around 1,000 probationary National Park Service employees in February.That has c

ICYMI: Why Global Markets Are In Flux

Apr 08 2025 11 mins  
President Donald Trump's escalating trade war sent markets lurching between hope and panic yesterday.But overall, stocks have been tumbling since last Wednesday. That's when President Trump announced a universal 10 percent tariff on all goods coming into the U.S. He also announced additional import taxes on 185 countries. Those tariffs are set to kick in Wednesday.In response, the

'If You Can Keep It': The Federal Health Firings

Apr 07 2025 34 mins  
The nation's health administration is the latest target of the Trump administration's effort to dismantle the federal bureaucracy. That's after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slashed 10,000 jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services early last week.Entire offices were eliminated during the layoffs. Some of those positions, Kennedy says, will need to be reinstated.

The News Roundup For April 4, 2025

Apr 04 2025 85 mins  
Donald Trump unveiled his so-called "Liberation Day" plans this week. On Wednesday he announced a slew of tariffs that will affect goods being imported into the U.S.Elon Musk took a hit in Wisconsin. Liberal candidate Susan Crawford emerged victorious in the special election to the state's Supreme Court.Meanwhile, the White House is working to find countries that will take migrants

What Detainments At Universities Mean For The First Amendment

Apr 03 2025 33 mins  
The arrest and detainment of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil by Immigration and Customs Enforcement garnered national attention.Last week, the video of the arrest of a Turkish PhD student at Tufts University, Rumeysa Ozturk, by masked federal agents received similar attention. In addition to Ozturk and Khalil, nearly a dozen international students and faculty at

ICYMI: A Quarter Of HHS Workforce Lost Due To Cuts

Apr 03 2025 11 mins  
The Trump administration's cutbacks to the federal workforce continued this week at the Department of Health and Human Services.Thousands of staffers were fired at agencies like the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the layoffs last week, an additional "reduction in force" of 10,000 people