Rubio defends State Department reorganization cutting human rights and diversity offices and seeking 15% staff reductions.
University leaders form private alliance to resist Trump administration’s attacks on academic independence and research funding.
’60 Minutes’ correspondent tells viewers CBS supervision threatens show’s independence after producer resigns.
D.C. acting U.S. attorney probes Wikimedia Foundation’s tax-exempt status, claiming Wikipedia hosts foreign propaganda.
Kennedy Center cancellations following Trump board takeover lead World Pride DC to relocate Pride week events.
Federal government fights judge’s order to move jailed Tufts student from Louisiana to Vermont after arrest over Gaza essay.
VA launches Christian bias task force to probe Biden-era discrimination and invites employees to report each other.
Trump orders K-12 schools to embrace AI and scrap equity-based discipline rules targeting racial disparities.
EEOC texts Columbia and Barnard employees asking if they are Jewish or Israeli, then probing for antisemitism.
‘60 Minutes’ chief resigns, citing corporate interference tied to Trump lawsuit and Paramount merger.
Naval Academy cancels frequent lecturer Ryan Holiday’s talk an hour before start after he refused to cut slides on book ban.
Trump replaces COVID data website with page blaming Fauci and China, deletes info on vaccines and treatment.
Pentagon spokesman behind DEI image purge forced out after backlash, as 3 other senior aides are implicated in leak scandal.
Appeals court skeptical of Trump admin push to block AP from regaining its longtime White House press slot.
Trump’s State Department eliminates office countering foreign disinformation after pressure from conservative critics.
Trump escalates retaliation, asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status after $2.2B funding cuts.
Military families sue DOD, say Trump administration censored base school education and banned diverse books
Trump DOJ bans staff from posting about work, including titles or press releases, raising free speech and purge concerns.
Judge blocks Trump’s Labor Dept from forcing grantees to drop DEI programs, but allows ban on new equity-related grants to stand.
Army and Air Force libraries ordered to review books for DEI content after Navy pulls nearly 400 titles.
Fourth judge blocks Trump’s retaliatory order targeting law firms, calls Susman case ‘immensely oppressive.’
Trump threatens Harvard’s tax-exempt status day after cutting $2B in funding, also demands school apologize.
Trump administration sidelines AP from press pool despite federal court order by shrinking access for all wire outlets.
Pulitzer winner Julia Angwin helps write survival guide for dissent in Trump’s authoritarian America.
White House defies court order and bars AP from Oval Office event over refusal to use ‘Gulf of America’ in reporting.
Trump freezes $2.2 billion in Harvard funding after school rejects federal demands on discipline, protests, and academic oversight.
After firing staff and canceling nearly all humanities grants, the Trump administration will use federal arts funding to build its long-promised “Garden of American Heroes”—a patriotic sculpture park celebrating historical figures in “realistic” form.
Trump administration seeks consent decree to place Columbia University under federal court oversight as funding talks continue.
DHS to screen visa applicants’ social media for antisemitic content and revoke visas based on online speech.
National Park Service restores Harriet Tubman to Underground Railroad webpage after “unapproved edits” erased slavery language and her photo.
Judge orders Trump to reinstate Associated Press in White House press pool, citing retaliation for refusing to use his “Gulf of America” renaming.
Trump officials freeze $1.8 billion in funding for Cornell and Northwestern as punishment for alleged civil rights violations and campus protests.
Trump administration doesn’t renew contract for translating weather alerts and forecasts, cutting access for non-English speakers.
Trump administration removes Harriet Tubman and slavery references from National Park Service Underground Railroad webpage.
Kevin Young resigns as director of Smithsonian’s African American museum weeks after being placed on leave, as Trump targets institution.
Naval Academy library removed books by Nobel laureates Toni Morrison and Elie Wiesel, Maya Angelou’s memoir, and John Lewis’s autobiography in DEI purge.
Trump administration issues written demands to Harvard: drop DEI, restrict protests, cooperate with DHS, or lose billions in federal funds and contracts.
Naval Academy flags 900 books and removes nearly 400 before Hegseth visit as Trump admin DEI purge widens.
