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Why is the Trump administration cutting $2.6 billion in research funding to Harvard?
Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. A federal judge is weighing arguments over the Trump administration's plan to cut two point six billion dollars in research funding to Harvard. The university and many alumni are challenging the move and rallied outside a Boston courthouse during Monday's hearing. Kirsten Weld, who's president of Harvard's chapter of American Association of University Professors, says the cuts are unconstitutional.
The government wants to tell students what they can and cannot learn, what questions they can and cannot ask, who they can and cannot aspire to be.
The Trump administration says it is withholding funding to Harvard because of the university's policies on Campus protests, emissions, hiring And more. A former Louisville detective convicted of violating Brianna Taylor's civil rights has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison plus three years probation.
What was the outcome of Brett Hankinson’s sentencing for the Brianna Taylor case?
Brett Hankinson was convicted last year for his role in the deadly twenty twenty raid on Taylor's home. Burbota Rodin with Louisville Public Media has the Taylor family's reaction to the sentencing.
U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings said the Justice Department's recommendation that Brett Hankison get just one day in jail was inappropriate. Hankison will be on parole for three years after he gets out. Attorney Lanita Baker, who represents Brianna Taylor's family, said they feel they got some amount of justice.
We were here today for a just sentence. And while thirty three months in prison is not enough. It's more than they were asking for.
Taylor's killing at the hands of police helped fuel racial justice protests in twenty twenty.
How did a commercial jet avoid a collision with a B‑52 bomber over North Dakota?
Four protesters were arrested during the hearing for blocking traffic outside the courthouse. For MPR News, I'm Roberto Rolldan in Louisville.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating Friday's close call in the skies over North Dakota. As NPR's Giles Snyder reports, a passenger jet had to make a sharp turn to avoid a potential collision with an Air Force B-52 bomber.
The pilot of the commercial jet is getting credit for averting disaster. On a video posted to social media by a passenger, the pilot can be heard apologizing for what he called an aggressive maneuver after spotting the B-52 in his flight path. The incident happened as the regional carrier operating as a Delta flight approached Minot International Airport. The military says the B fifty two, based at nearby Minot Air Force Base, had conducted an FAA approved flyover of the North Dakota State Fair. The FAA says that a private contractor is responsible for air traffic at the Maynot Airport. The near miss came nearly six months after sixty seven people were killed.
Why are NASA employees protesting the administration’s budget cuts and mission closures?
When an army helicopter collided with a jetliner over Washington DC.
US futures are flat in after hours trading on Wall Street following Monday's mixed close on Asia Pacific market shares are mixed. This is NPR. A group of employees at NASA are raising concerns about the Trump administration's budget cuts. In an open letter to interim NASA director Sean Duffy, the workers say the cuts have undermined the agency's mission. And cause catastrophic impacts on staff. The employees say they oppose the closing. of missions that have already been funded by Congress. The termination of NASA grants and contracts and cuts to science and aeronautic research. A new study on global wildfires finds at the last two years saw the highest amount of forest burnt in decades.
What does the new study reveal about the record‑breaking wildfires and forest loss in 2023‑2024?
NPR's Nate Rott reports that fires are increasingly burning in places they typically do not.
Twenty twenty-three and twenty twenty-four were the hottest years on record globally. And the new study published in the Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds those years also saw a major bump in wildfires. Using satellite data to look at tree cover, the study found more than twice as much boreal forest burned in those years compared to the prior two decades. Tropical forests like those in South America and Central Africa lost three times as much tree cover.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why is the Trump administration cutting $2.6 billion in research funding to Harvard?
0:01–0:57
2
What was the outcome of Brett Hankinson’s sentencing for the Brianna Taylor case?
0:57–1:41
3
How did a commercial jet avoid a collision with a B‑52 bomber over North Dakota?
1:41–2:43
4
Why are NASA employees protesting the administration’s budget cuts and mission closures?
2:43–3:34
5
What does the new study reveal about the record‑breaking wildfires and forest loss in 2023‑2024?
3:34–4:39