{"id":282873,"date":"2025-04-15T21:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/wednesday-briefing-a-trump-harvard-showdown\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T21:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:24:12","slug":"wednesday-briefing-a-trump-harvard-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/wednesday-briefing-a-trump-harvard-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Briefing: A Trump-Harvard Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/15\/multimedia\/16ambriefing-asia-harvard-qwbh-copy\/16ambriefing-asia-harvard-qwbh-copy-facebookJumbo-v2.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Wednesday Briefing: A Trump-Harvard Showdown\" title=\"Wednesday Briefing: A Trump-Harvard Showdown\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-613675ed\">Trump escalated a feud with Harvard<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After freezing $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard University, President Trump turned up the pressure yesterday and threatened to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-harvard-tax-status.html?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">revoke its tax-exempt status<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The fight between the Trump administration and the nation\u2019s oldest and most elite university was headed for a showdown that could affect other American institutions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Harvard has rejected the administration\u2019s demands that it make changes to its policies and programs related to diversity hiring and the tolerance of anti-Israel protests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Details:<\/strong> With an endowment of $50 billion, Harvard <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/14\/us\/politics\/harvard-trump.html\" title=\"\">is uniquely positioned to withstand the funding freeze<\/a>. Its strong refusal of Trump\u2019s demands has injected energy into other universities fearful of the president\u2019s wrath.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Ripple effects:<\/strong> Columbia University, which has faced criticism for not striking a more defiant stand, showed signs of adopting a tougher tone yesterday. The acting president pledged that the university would not allow the government to \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/nyregion\/columbia-trump-president-response.html\" title=\"\">require us to relinquish our independence and autonomy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">For more:<\/strong> Critics say the administration\u2019s demands are an attack on academic freedom. Here\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/trump-university-college.html\" title=\"\">what to know<\/a> about Trump\u2019s targeting of universities.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-5fb6ce07\">More on Trump<\/h2>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3bca1b4\">Scenes from Ukraine, where a truce seems far away<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two of our reporters and a photographer traveled to Sumy, a city in eastern Ukraine, a day after Russian airstrikes hit a central neighborhood on Palm Sunday, killing 34 people. They witnessed another Russian attack on Monday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Palm Sunday attack has become an argument that peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv are failing. In Sumy, it has set off preparation for a possible new Russian ground assault in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The feeling in Sumy \u201cis of fear, ceaseless tension and frayed nerves,\u201d our reporters wrote. For residents, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/world\/europe\/ukraine-sumy-palm-sunday-russia-war.html\" title=\"\">there are no signs of a cease-fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4dc4cdf1\">Autopsies showed some Gaza medics were shot in the head<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The paramedics and rescue workers killed in an Israeli shooting in Gaza last month died mainly from <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-medics-autopsies-israel.html\" title=\"\">gunshots to the head or chest<\/a>, according to autopsy reports obtained by The Times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The autopsy reports said 11 of the men had gunshot wounds and that most had been shot multiple times. Three others had shrapnel wounds. Israel\u2019s military said it was investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Related: <\/strong>An Israeli strike <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-hospital-israel-military.html\" title=\"\">killed a security guard<\/a> and wounded 10 patients at a field hospital, the hospital\u2019s director said.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-55bd377a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">MORE TOP NEWS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The small Finnish city of Rovaniemi has branded itself as \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/world\/asia\/santa-finland-rovaniemi.html\" title=\"\">the Official Hometown of Santa Claus<\/a>,\u201d with a tourist season that runs from October to March. Local residents are anything but jolly, with many complaining of out-of-control development. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Our reporter traveled to the city, where tourism brings in more than 400 million euros a year. \u201cThe people who benefit are happy,\u201d a man in a red suit and a long white beard told him. \u201cThose who don\u2019t \u2014 they\u2019re jealous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Lives lived:<\/strong> <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/arts\/elsa-honig-fine-dead.html\" title=\"\">Elsa Honig Fine<\/a>, an art historian who published textbooks on Black and female artists, died at 94.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-286d948a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">CONVERSATION STARTERS <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4d14a17d\">The fight over Van Gogh\u2019s roots<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Auvers-sur-Oise, a village near Paris, is where Vincent Van Gogh spent his final days. There, art experts in 2020 identified some gnarled tree roots on a hillside as those depicted in his final painting \u201cTree Roots.\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/world\/europe\/van-gogh-tree-roots-france-auvers-sur-oise.html\" title=\"\">There has been strife in the village ever since<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The owners of a property near the roots have been locked in a fight with the municipality, which has claimed part of their land for a historic site. The knotty dispute has unsettled residents just as the new tourism season heats up.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-705d9918\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">RECOMMENDATIONS <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/briefing\/trump-harvard-sumy-ukraine-gaza-autopsies.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump escalated a feud with Harvard After freezing $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard University, President Trump turned up the pressure yesterday and threatened to revoke its tax-exempt status. The fight between the Trump administration and the nation\u2019s oldest and most elite university was headed for a showdown that could affect other American institutions. 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