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2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Selina Y. Wang |Arthur Jones II

The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in federal funding to Cornell and $790 million to Northwestern, as the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at the schools, according to two White House officials. "On Monday, several Trump administration agencies froze roughly $790M of federal funding and roughly $1.05B of federal funding from Northwestern and Cornell, respectively," a senior administration official told ABC News.

2 weeks ago | southernillinoisnow.com | Arthur Jones II

(WASHINGTON) — Crowds of college and high school students representing student governments from some of the largest schools in the Washington, D.C., area rallied outside the U.S. Department of Education on Friday to oppose the administration’s gutting of the agency. Chanting “hands off our schools” and “give us back our DOE,” demonstrators attended the rally outside department headquarters as education advocates and student organizers discussed the department’s importance to U.S. students.

2 weeks ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Arthur Jones II

Crowds of college and high school students representing student governments from some of the largest schools in the Washington, D.C., area rallied outside the U.S. Department of Education on Friday to oppose the administration's gutting of the agency. Chanting "hands off our schools" and "give us back our DOE," demonstrators attended the rally outside department headquarters as education advocates and student organizers discussed the department's importance to U.S. students.

2 weeks ago | abcnews.go.com | Arthur Jones II

It follows about a month of demonstrations taking place at the department. The headquarters of the U.S. Department of Eduction, which were ordered closed for the day for what officials described as security reasons amid large-scale layoffs, is seen Mar. 12, 2025, in Washington.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Lauren Peller |Jay O'Brien |John Parkinson |Arthur Jones II

With the House of Representatives at a standstill, Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to fold on his strong opposition to allowing new parents in Congress to vote remotely. "I don't concede on something that I believe to be unconstitutional. I can't. I took an oath to uphold the Constitution. So, we're going to find a path through this. We're working on that," Johnson said Wednesday. "I talked to everybody who voted against the rule, and we'll work it out.