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Major NYC Hospital Halts Its Transgender Youth Program

NYU Langone cites federal regulatory pressure

(Newser) - NYU Langone Health has shut down its high-profile program for transgender youth, citing federal pressure and leadership changes as key factors. The Manhattan hospital said it ended its Transgender Youth Health Program following the departure of its medical director and in light of "the current regulatory environment," a...

Administration to Review Funding to Democratic States

Directive applies to state and local governments, nonprofits, and universities

(Newser) - The White House budget office has instructed most federal agencies to catalog all funding sent to a set of Democratic-led states and Washington, DC, as the Trump administration weighs ways to pressure jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities. In a memo reviewed by the Washington Post , Politico , and...

5 States Sue After Trump Freezes Federal Funds

Democratic-led states say move is an unconstitutional abuse of power

(Newser) - Attorneys general in five Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Trump's administration after it said it would freeze money for several public benefit programs, citing concerns about fraud in the programs designed to help low-income families.
  • The states—California, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois, and New York—called the
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California Abandons Suit Over Federal Rail Money

Federal government wouldn't be a reliable partner on the project anyway, authority says

(Newser) - California has dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration over the withdrawal of $4 billion in funding for the state's long-delayed high-speed rail project. The suit was filed soon after the Department of Transportation's announcement in July. The High-Speed Rail Authority said said this week that it will...

Northwestern Settles With Administration for $75M

Deal ends government investigations into antidiscrimination law compliance

(Newser) - Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75 million to the federal government to settle the Trump administration's allegations of discrimination and restore nearly $790 million in frozen research funding. The agreement, announced Friday, ends federal investigations into the university's compliance with antidiscrimination laws and requires Northwestern to adhere...

Cornell Strikes a Deal With the White House

School will pay $60M toward getting its public funding restored

(Newser) - Another university has reached a deal with the Trump administration to have its public funding restored. This time, it's Cornell, which agreed to pay a total of $60 million to resolve the issue, reports CNN . The deal calls for Cornell to pay $30 million directly to the federal government...

DOGE Cuts Stall an Oregon Town's 1983 Murder Mystery

Decades-old murder case halted as federal grant vanishes

(Newser) - The New York Times calls it "perhaps the most unlikely casualty of the Trump administration's sweeping budget cuts last spring." An Oregon county some 2,500 miles away lost a very specific 2023 grant from the Justice Department: one designated for rural violent crime. It had allowed...

Judge Questions Why SNAP Halt Isn't an Emergency

Ruling could come soon on whether administration has to tap contingency fund

(Newser) - A federal judge signaled on Thursday that she is leaning toward requiring the Trump administration to use emergency reserves to partially fund food assistance for about 42 million Americans, as the government shutdown threatens to halt Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments starting Saturday. District Judge Indira Talwani, presiding over a...

All but 2 Major Universities Reject Trump's Funding Offer

Schools cite academic freedom in rejecting White House proposal; 7 out of 9 have turned down plan

(Newser) - Seven of the nine universities approached by the Trump administration for a new federal funding plan have declined the offer, with an eighth expressing reservations, the New York Times reports. The plan would provide preferential funding to schools that align with the administration's priorities, including agreeing that "academic...

Trump's Academic 'Compact' for Universities Gets Its 2nd No

Following MIT, Brown turns down deal for priority federal funding

(Newser) - Make that two: Brown University is following MIT's lead in rejecting the Trump administration's offer of preferential access to federal funding, which would have required the school to overhaul its policies in alignment with the administration's college compact. The compact "by its nature and by various...

In Rural America, the Shutdown Threatens Air Travel

Hundreds of rural airports could lose service by Sunday as EAS funding dries up

(Newser) - Federal funding that keeps air travel running in rural parts of the United States will expire this Sunday if the government shutdown drags on . The Essential Air Service program , created in 1978, provides subsidies to airlines serving 177 small airports—often the only link these communities have to bigger...

Trump Says He'll Block Federal Funds if Mamdani Wins

'He is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City'

(Newser) - President Trump took aim at New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Monday, vowing to block federal funds if the progressive candidate wins the Nov. 4 election.
  • "Self proclaimed New York City Communist, Zohran Mamdani, who is running for Mayor, will prove to be one of the
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An Island Fights to Stay Afloat 20 Years After Katrina

Federal funding cuts threaten urgent erosion fixes, recovery efforts on Alabama island

(Newser) - Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, Alabama's Dauphin Island is facing a stark reality: It's literally washing away. The 14-mile barrier island , which took a massive hit during Katrina in 2005—losing 1.5 miles of its west end and more than 300 homes—has continued to erode,...

School Districts Sue US in Battle Over Bathroom Rules

Virginia districts seek to protect funding after Education Department's threat claiming Title IX violations

(Newser) - Two of Virginia's largest school districts are taking the US Department of Education to court, intensifying the battle over whether local policies supporting transgender students will cost them vital federal funding. Arlington and Fairfax County public schools have filed suits to prevent the agency from cutting their funding,...

Trump Threatens to Deploy National Guard in Baltimore

Maryland leaders push back as crime rates show sharp decline

(Newser) - President Trump has threatened to send military troops into Baltimore to "quickly clean up" crime, echoing recent deployments of National Guard forces in Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, NBC News reports. In a Truth Social post Sunday, Trump said if Maryland Governor Wes Moore "needs help, like...

NPR Losing Top Editor After Funding Cuts

Edith Chapin says her exit is unrelated

(Newser) - NPR now has two big challenges: Its top newsroom leader said Tuesday she is stepping down later this year, a move that comes just after Congress stripped federal funding from public media. However, Edith Chapin says her exit is unrelated to the funding cut, adding that she informed superiors...

Trump Administration Threatens to Cut All Harvard Funding

Says university failed to protect Jewish students

(Newser) - The Trump administration has concluded that Harvard University failed to protect Jewish students from harassment and is threatening to cut all federal funding from the Ivy League school if it fails to take action. A federal task force sent a letter to Harvard on Monday finding the university violated civil...

NPR Sues White House Over 'Textbook Retaliation'

Broadcaster says Trump administration isn't being subtle about cutting off funding, 'comes as a wolf'

(Newser) - National Public Radio promised to fight a presidential executive order cutting off its federal funding, and now that's exactly what it's doing. The public broadcaster—which, along with PBS, was targeted by President Trump's executive order earlier this month accusing them of being "biased media"—...

Trump Moves to Cut Funding for 2 Media Outlets

No more federal cash for NPR, PBS, per new executive order against 'biased media'

(Newser) - President Trump has long made clear his disdain of the mainstream media, but now he's putting more teeth on that by closing the government's wallet on two major broadcasters. The commander in chief on Thursday added to his record-breaking executive-order blitz with yet another EO, this time directed...

Harvard's Resistance to Trump Could Mark a 'Turning Point'

Former President Obama blasts 'unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom'

(Newser) - Academics, alumni, Democratic lawmakers, and former President Obama are backing Harvard's costly decision to resist what it says is "direct governmental regulation" of intellectual conditions at the university. Obama, a graduate of Harvard Law School, blasted the Trump administration's "unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic...

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