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.
For the second time this month, Pentagon targets Jackie Robinson—after scrubbing a story on his Army court-martial, DoD now flags his biography for removal under Hegseth’s anti-DEI order.
Utah enacts first-in-nation ban on pride flags in schools and government buildings as governor lets bill become law without signature.
Trump orders Vance to purge ‘race-centered ideology’ from Smithsonian, block funds for exhibits that defy federal policy
DOJ tells Cornell Ph.D. student who sued Trump after leading protests to surrender to ICE, raising fears of retaliatory deportation.
Weeks after public clash, Trump demands Maine governor make “full-throated apology” and vow not to “unlawfully challenge” federal authority.
Trump administration told researchers to cut sexual orientation data from rural smoking study, prompting withdrawal from federally published health journal.
Columbia caves to Trump for $400m, authorizes protest arrests and forces demonstrators to identify themselves.
Trump’s FTC erases four years of consumer protection blogs, scrubbing AI and privacy guidance for Amazon, Microsoft, and Big Tech
Jailed activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in custody into next week, but his lawyers have gained their first chance to speak with him privately since his arrest.
The Education Dept. warned 60 universities, including Harvard and Yale, that they could face penalties from antisemitism investigations.
Trump warned that the arrest and jailing of a recent Columbia University grad student with permanent U.S. residency “will be the first of many.”
DC began the 6-8 week process of erasing Black Lives Matter Plaza at a cost of $610K following GOP threats.
NIH’s National Cancer Institute must flag all communications and research containing up to 23 terms, including vaccines, fluoride, autism, and peanut allergies.
A Columbia University grad student who led protests against Israel was arrested by ICE and had his green card revoked for “circulating social media posts criticizing Zionism” and organizing a march.
