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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Jeremy Peters
Once Champions of Fringe Causes, Now in a ‘Trap of Their Own Making’Top leaders at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. are struggling to fulfill Trump campaign promises often rooted in misinformation and conspiracy theories. Dan Bongino, the intense and voluble media personality tapped by President Trump to be a top F.B.I. official, appeared on Fox News last month …
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Jeremy Peters
Night Owls May Be at Higher Risk of Cognitive Decline. Here's Why. We all have our own chronotype – a tendency to sleep at certain times, with early birds and night owls at opposite ends of the scale. A new study …
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Jeremy Peters
A conservative student newspaper had DOGE-style questions about the work of Brown University staff. Its writers were summoned to disciplinary hearings. Thousands of administrative employees at Brown University woke up this spring to an email with pointed Elon Musk-like questions about their job responsibilities. Please describe your role, it asked. What tasks have you performed in the past week? How would Brown students be affected if your job didn't exist?
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Gina Kolata |Jeremy Peters
Alan Garber became a hero to liberals after Harvard resisted the federal government. At the same time, he is trying to remake campus culture in ways the Trump administration might appreciate. Dr. Alan Garber, president of Harvard, disagrees with President Trump about many things. He is fighting Mr. Trump as the federal government tries to strip Harvard of billions of dollars in research funding and its nonprofit tax status. But Dr. Garber agrees with Mr. Trump on one point.
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2 months ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Jeremy Peters |Andrea Fuller
Now this mutually beneficial bargain has started to unravel. President Trump and many Republicans say they will use the threat of deep funding cuts to rein in out-of-control progressive activism on campus, which they believe has driven universities away from their mission to educate and mold better citizens. With confidence in higher education waning among Americans, the president also believes he has public opinion on his side.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Jeremy Peters |Andrea Fuller
For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn't. Seventy Years of University Research FundingAmerican universities spent $60 billion in federal money in 2023, more than 30 times what they spent in 1953, accounting for inflation. For over eight decades, American universities and the federal government wound themselves into an ever tighter embrace.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Edgar Sandoval |Jeremy Peters |Mike Ives
El sospechoso fue acusado de prender fuego a la residencia, lo que obligó a huir al gobernador Josh Shapiro y a su familia. Los investigadores dijeron que encontraron botellas de cerveza con gasolina en la casa. Video Back transcriptPennsylvania Governor Condemns Arson Attack on His ResidenceThe authorities in Pennsylvania arrested a suspect after a fire was set at Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence on Sunday. I want you all to know that your prayers lift us up.
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2 months ago | 
myheraldreview.com | Edgar Sandoval |Jeremy Peters
Pennsylvania state authorities have arrested a 38-year-old Harrisburg man they said set fire to the governor’s mansion while Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family slept, forcing them to evacuate early Sunday before the blaze severely damaged part of the building. The man, identified as Cody Balmer, 38, jumped a fence and managed to evade state troopers after he broke into the building, authorities said, adding that he had used homemade incendiary devices.
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2 months ago | 
blog.tms.edu | Jeremy Peters
“Repent.” What tone of voice comes to mind when you read that word? What facial expressions do you imagine? What demeanor do you sense? Some view the message of repentance as harsh or unkind. Perhaps they picture angry men with signs reading Turn or Burn shouting from street corners and university campuses. And sadly, such a reputation isn’t entirely unwarranted. There are modern, self-named street preachers and apocalyptic prophets who wear harshness as a badge of honor.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Jeremy Peters
As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power in state and federal government, are behind a growing crackdown on political expression at universities, in ways that try to sidestep the Constitution's free-speechguarantees.
