The Trump administration could end up rehiring as many as 20 percent of the agency employees it fires as part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, according to Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"At DOGE, we talked about this from the beginning ... we're going to do 80 percent cuts, but 20 percent of those are going to have to be reinstalled, because we'll make mistakes," Kennedy told reporters on Thursday at an event in Virginia, Politico reports.

“If we make mistakes, we're going to admit it and we're going to remedy it,” he added.

The comments came as Kennedy’s department moved this week to cut some 10,000 jobs, including drastically cutting the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, and eliminating thousands of health regulators at the Food and Drug Administration overseeing issues like drug reviews, vaccines, and tobacco.

Among those who may be rehired are regulators from a Centers for Disease Control initiative aimed at monitoring children’s exposure to unsafe levels of lead.

"There were some programs that were cuts that are being reinstated, and I believe that that's one," Kennedy said.

The comments mirror those made by DOGE’s de facto leader, Elon Musk, who said in February the effort had “accidentally canceled” the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s program to prevent the spread of the deadly ebola virus.

"We will make mistakes," Musk said. "We won't be perfect, but when we make mistakes we'll fix it very quickly … I think we all want Ebola prevention. So we restored the ebola prevention immediately, and there was no interruption.”

Public health experts said such comments are often misleading, given that DOGE cuts often result in hundreds or thousands of employees on the chopping block, hamstringing the normal function of government efforts.

“This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner [organizations], have withdrawn from WHO [the World Health Organization], and muzzled CDC [Centers for Disease Contro],” Jeremy Konyndyk, who led the federal government's response to the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola outbreak as director of USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, wrote on X after Musk’s ebola comments. “What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.”

Accidental firings and quick rehirings have been a feature of the DOGE program, which aims to trillions of dollars amounting to most of the U.S. government’s annual discretionary spending.

The cuts were so swift at USAID the administration reportedly fired then rehired a staffer to process time sheets.

Meanwhile, in February, the administration reportedly fired then rescinded the terminations of hundreds of employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration, and did the same at the Food and Drug Administration.

In March, in the midst of a legal challenge, the administration was ordered to immediately rehire tens of thousands of probationary federal employees who were terminated from the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Energy, Agriculture, Interior, and Treasury, among others.

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Business owners reacted with shock and concern on Wednesday to the sweeping series of tariffs Donald Trump announced on all U.S. trading partners.

Despite the Trump administration framing the measures as a way to bolster U.S. manufacturing, those within American industry warned the tariffs might do the opposite.

“Manufacturers are scrambling to determine the exact implications for their operations,” National Association of Manufacturers president and CEO Jay Timmons said in a statement on Wednesday. “The stakes for manufacturers could not be higher.”

The tariffs, which Trump continues to erroneously claim will mean other countries paying the U.S., will in fact “threaten investment, jobs, supply chains, and, in turn, America’s ability to outcompete other nations and lead as the preeminent manufacturing superpower,” according to Timmons.

Other industry leaders had a similar outlook.

The National Restaurant Association warned the tariffs “will create change and disruption,” as small business owners struggled with increased prices.

“Many restaurant operators source as many domestic ingredients as they can, but it’s simply not possible for U.S. farmers and ranchers to produce the volumes needed to support consumer demand,” the group’s CEO Michelle Korsmo said in a statement.

“What we have heard from business of all sizes, across all industries, from around the country is that these broad tariffs are a tax increase that will raise prices for American consumers and hurt the economy,” the U.S. Chamber of Commerce added in a statement of its own.

“This is catastrophic for American families,” Matt Priest, president and chief executive of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America, told The New York Times. “We had hoped the president would take a more targeted approach, but these broad tariffs will only drive-up costs, reduce product quality and weaken consumer confidence.”

Political reaction to the tariff plan — which includes 25 percent tariffs on imported autos, 10 percent “baseline” tariffs on all imports, and double-digit reciprocal tariffs on numerous individual nations — was split on predictable partisan lines, though a handful of Senate Republicans joined all Democrats in the upper house for a largely symbolic vote Wednesday evening to reject the national emergency determination the Trump administration has used to justify tariffs on Canada.

Democratic critics of Trump hammered the president, arguing the tariffs would do the opposite of the Republican’s campaign promises to lower prices and aid American families.

Rep. Nydia Velazquez of New York warned in a post on X directed at Trump of the “working families, small businesses, and everyday Americans getting crushed by your half-baked trade war.”

Others emphasized that the tariffs, which, despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, are paid by U.S. companies importing goods, functionally act as tax hikes on U.S. consumers.

“Donald Trump just imposed the largest tax hike in our lifetime,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday on X.

Liberal political commentator Jonathan Chait argued in The Atlantic that Trump, whose tariff plans sent stocks declining after hours and raised fears of a recession, “might become the first one to kill off a healthy economy through an almost universally foreseeable unforced error.”

Some cheered the economic overhaul.

“He’s resetting the negotiating table. He’s resetting the deck here,” Rep. Andy Ogles, Republican of Tennessee, said in a video statement on Wednesday, adding, “At the end of the day, I know Trump is going to be proactive. He’s going to put America First and put American workers first, which is what we should do.”

“Today's tariff action will cement President Trump's legacy as one that ushered in a new Golden Age of American industrialization and prosperity,” Nick Iacovella of the Coalition for a Prosperous America said on X. “Absolutely massive day for those of us that care about strengthening our nation's industrial capacity and creating working-class jobs.”

On the international front, leaders also showed concern.

"It is the American people who will pay the biggest price for these unjustified tariffs,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said after Trump’s announcement.

"We will do everything we can to work towards an agreement with the United States, with the goal of avoiding a trade war that would inevitably weaken the West in favor of other global players,” added Italty’s Giorgia Meloni.

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It was fitting that Cory Booker was recounting a story about the late civil rights leader John Lewis as he entered the 19th minute and 24th hour of a historic speech to the Senate on Tuesday evening.

In that moment, the first Black Senator for New Jersey broke a record for the longest speech ever made in Congress, one that was set 67 years ago by the segregationist Democrat Strom Thurmond, who spoke for a day and a night in opposition to the Civil Rights Act.

Overcome with emotion, Booker looked up to the ceiling and touched his heart as his fellow Democrats in the chamber applauded his effort.

“All right, I want to go a little bit past this and then I'm going to deal with some of the biological emergencies I'm feeling,” he said.

Booker, an avuncular 55-year-old who ran for president in 2020, invoked civil rights leaders throughout his marathon speech that he called in protest against the policies of Donald Trump, calling for greater resistance to his unprecedented second term.

“I don't know what John Lewis would say right now... but John Lewis would say something, he would do something. He wouldn't treat this moral moment like it was normal,” Booker said.

Booker began his speech in the Senate chamber at 7 pm the night before, promising to talk “for as long as I am physically able.”

In what he described as “America’s moral moment,” Booker criticized the Trump administration for its “complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, and the needs of the American people.”

"I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis,” he said. “I believe that not in a partisan sense, because so many of the people that have been reaching out to my office in pain, in fear, having their lives upended — so many of them identify themselves as Republicans.”

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Booker was still there Tuesday morning, looking tired and wired but still engaged in his suit and black tie, pacing around the podium with his glasses in his hand.

"I've got fuel in the tank, man,” he insisted at 10 a.m., some 15 hours in.

In his wide-ranging but targeted speech, the senator painted a picture of an administration that was corrupt, venal and chaotic. Pulling facts and figures from binders prepared by his staff, separated by issue, he laid into Trump’s close advisor and tech billionaire Elon Musk, and the “oligarchy” that surrounded Trump, warning of looming cuts to Social Security and Medicaid that would hit the country’s poorest.

“This is the people's house. It's Article One of the Constitution, and it's under assault!” he said in the 14th hour, with a raised voice, explaining what had motivated him to take his extraordinary action.

“Our spending powers, our budgetary powers, the power to establish agencies like the Department of Education and USAID, it's under assault by a president that doesn't respect this document,” he continued.

More than 60,000 people were tuned into his livestream of the speech on TikTok at one point. The video was liked more than 200 million times.

He quoted poetry, Bible verses, song lyrics and senators and generals to keep control of the floor. He drew from speeches by iconic American figures such as Harriet Tubman, John McCain and John Lewis. The longer he continued, the more alliterative he became.

Booker read personal stories of people impacted by Trump’s policies — among them a long account by a Canadian woman who was detained by immigration authorities for 12 days. His voice broke occasionally as he read those stories of hardship.

“These are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such,” he said.

Booker did not leave the chamber the entire time, even for a bathroom break. His only respite from speaking was to hear questions from fellow Democrats, who lined up to show support for Booker’s protest and join the condemnation of Trump.

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Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, was among them.

“Your strength, your fortitude, your clarity, has just been nothing short of amazing, and all of America is paying attention to what you're saying,” he told Booker.

It was Schumer, who returned again when the record had been broken, to break the news to Booker.

“Do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud this caucus is of you? Do you know how proud America is of you?” he said.

While not technically a filibuster — a form of protest in which a lawmaker holds the floor of the legislative chamber to delay a vote — Booker’s speech did disrupt the work of the Senate, which was due to convene at midday.

His speech was both a sign of desperation and a call to arms.

Seventy-one days into Trump’s second term, the Democratic Party has struggled to find a common or coherent response to his agenda. The party has been overwhelmed by the sweeping Executive Orders to dismantle government agencies and deport immigrants. It is still fighting over how they lost the last election, and how to win the next.

The Democratic base has been screaming for its leaders to do something, anything, to put the brakes on the Trump administration’s policies, while growing increasingly frustrated with the disconnectedness of its aging leadership.

Some of that energy has been directed towards Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who have made their party’s leaders look impotent as they have held huge rallies across the country in protest against Trump.

At the same time, Trump has faced little to no opposition from his own party as he has tested the limits of presidential power, which has made Congress seem more irrelevant and powerless than it has in decades.

It was perhaps with all of that in mind that Booker, a known admirer of the Senate process, chose the chamber to make his stand. But he did so with an acknowledgment of its limits.

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“How do we stop them? I'm sorry to say we hold powerful positions. We are elected by great states, but we're in the minority right now,” he said. “It will take three people of conscience on that side,” he added, pointing to the Republican side of the chamber to highlight the GOP’s control.

And he referenced Thurmond’s speech in the final hours of his own.

"I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech,” he said of Thurdmond. “I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."

Booker also repeatedly referred to the Constitution as he railed against Trump, occasionally appealing to the president’s own supporters.

“He promised to lower your grocery prices — they're higher. He promised to be a better steward of the economy — it's worse than what he inherited. Over and over, he's breaking promises and doing outrageous things like disappearing people off of American streets, violating fundamental principles of this document,” he said.

As he approached 20 hours, Booker became emotional but spirited as he invoked protest movements of America’s past and called for action.

“What do I want from my fellow Americans? Do better than me, do better than we, in this body. We are flawed and failed people,” he said.

“My voice is inadequate. My efforts today are inadequate to stop what they're trying to do. But we, the people, are powerful. We are strong. We have changed history. We have bent the arc of the moral universe. And now is that moral moment again.”

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Republicans held onto a House seat in a special election in Florida Tuesday evening after a closer-than-expected contest, adding to the Republicans ‘ narrow majority.

Randy Fine, a right-wing senator in the state legislature, won the election to replace National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, who resigned the seat to take his post in the Trump administration.

Fine defeated Josh Weil, a Democrat who received a tidal wave of outside support from Democrats who hoped to turn the race into a referendum on President Donald Trump.

The race turned out to be much closer than expected in a district that voted for Trump by 30 points and that had previously elected Ron DeSantis when he served in Congress. DeSantis and Fine had consistently clashed, with DeSantis warning that Fine would underperform.

As of Tuesday evening, Fine won the district by 14 points, easily beating Weil, but underperforming Trump’s performance in November by half.

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Fine, who is Jewish and an ardent supporter of Israel, has garnered controversy, such as when he said that Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, both of whom are Muslim, “might consider leaving” before he arrived in Congress.

Trump had vocally backed Fine, as did Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk, who poured money into Fine’s campaign via his political action committee, America PAC.

“GET OUT AND VOTE FOR RANDY — HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN,” Trump posted on X Monday.

Democrats poured resources into the races after the race became unexpectedly close, with Senator Bernie Sanders endorsing Weil, and Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin campaigning in the state.

In recent years Florida shifted from being a perennial swing state to solidly Republican, buoyed by Trump adopting the state as his home, and migration from people fleeing Democratic states like New York, along with the rightward shift of Cuban, Puerto Rican and Venezuelan migrants in Florida.

But Fine’s underperformance shows that dissatisfaction with Trump might be growing. The president is set to launch his controversial “Liberation Day” tariffs, and many voters have voiced their disapproval of the way Musk’s DOGE has targeted numerous federal agencies for funding and staff cuts.

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Democrats in Wisconsin on Wednesday, meanwhile, sought to hold onto a seat on the state’s supreme court as Susan Crawford ran against former Republican attorney general Brad Schimel. Musk had visited Wisconsin and held a rally over the weekend, where he handed out two $1 million checks to voters.

Fine’s victory will certainly give House Republicans a sigh of relief. The same evening, Republican Jimmy Patronis easily won the seat in Florida’s first district vacated by former congressman Matt Gaetz. Gaetz resigned his seat when Trump nominated him to be attorney general, though Gaetz ultimately withdrew his nomination.

The wins in Florida increase the GOP’s margin in the House to 220 compared to the Democrats’ 213 after two Democratic members of Congress died.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has had to keep a close eye on the margins as Republicans can only afford to lose a handful of members on any given vote. Last week, Trump rescinded the nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York to be US ambassador to the United Nations to prevent Democrats from flipping her seat in a special election.

Republicans saw the effects of the tight margins on Tuesday when a handful of Republicans joined every Democrat to defeat a rule to begin debate on crucial parts of Trump’s policy agenda. Johnson and House GOP leadership Republicans had inserted language to kill a discharge petition by Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Flordia to allow new mothers to vote in the House by proxy.

Republicans and Trump hope to pass Trump’s proposed “one big, beautiful bill” that would include extending the 2017 tax cuts he signed, as well as ramping up spending for defense, security at the U.S.-Mexico border and energy exploration.

The race is the first major test for Democrats and Republicans for the second Trump presidency. Later this year, Virginia will hold its governor’s race. Democrats hope to make Musk’s slashing of federal jobs of constituents in Virginia a major sticking point.

Fine will likely have to wait a week until being sworn in. After the failed vote in the House, the chamber adjourned its business for the week.

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US has 'far-reaching' plans if Russia does not accept ceasefire, says Finnish president

Donald Trump has been told by Finland’s president Alexander Stubb that the US has “far-reaching” plans in case Russia does not accept a ceasefire in Ukraine.

Speaking to Finnish reporters in London, Mr Stubb said the US president was running out of patience with Russia, having met him in a surprise visit to Florida.

Mr Stubb added that a deadline for a ceasefire in Ukraine must be set in order to make it happen.

"April 20 would be a good time for a full ceasefire without any conditions,” Mr Stubb said, “because a deadline is needed, because it is Easter and because President Donald Trump will have been in office for three months”.

In Mr Stubb’s visit to Florida, the presidents discussed strengthening their countries' bilateral partnership and also played a round of golf, the Finnish president’s office said.

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Arizona authorities have arrested two people in connection with a series of train heists that resulted in the theft of Nike shoes worth millions.

On Thursday, officials with the Hualapai Nation Police Department initiated a traffic stop on a maroon Chevy Tahoe around 2:40 a.m. believed to be involved in multiple area hijacks.

After pulling the car over, eight people fled the vehicle. The male driver was detained. Police located some of the stolen shoes near the car, the police department said in a news release.

In another traffic stop Thursday, a white Toyota 4Runner was pulled over on Highway 66 as part of the investigation into the robberies. The female driver was stopped after failing to yield to an emergency vehicle. Police approached the vehicle and noticed evidence of criminal activity.

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The patrol sergeant issued a verbal command for the driver to exit the vehicle. The woman initially exited the car, but returned to the driver’s seat, shifted the vehicle into gear and sped away from the scene at a high speed. As she attempted to flee, police say the car struck a patrol officer.

The officer did not sustain any injuries. Officers initiated a pursuit of the fleeing suspect that spanned 80 miles and concluded near the Arizona-California border on Mile Marker 1 on Interstate 40. The driver lost control of the vehicle near a construction zone, collided with a guardrail and was thrown out of the car.

The woman sustained minor injuries and was transported to Valley View Medical Center in Mohave Valley for treatment. Both drivers were booked into the Mohave County Adult Detention Center for their alleged involvement in the case.

Police did not disclose additional details about the alleged crimes or the suspects’ identities except to say they were both from Mexico and in the U.S. illegally.

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Police have been investigating a series of freight train robberies near the Mojave Desert. Thieves have allegedly stolen at least $2m worth of Nike sneakers, according to the Los Angeles Times. Officials are currently investigating 10 similar robberies.

In one January robbery near Perrin, Arizona, thieves cut an air brake hose on a BNSF freight train and ran off with more than 1,900 pairs of unreleased Nike shoes worth more than $440,000. The shoes went on sale earlier this month for $225 a pair.

Eleven people charged in the January burglary have pleaded not guilty and were all ordered detained until trial, with Arizona magistrate judges concluding the defendants posed a risk of fleeing from authorities.

All 11 defendants are charged with possessing or receiving goods stolen from interstate shipment. Ten of the 11 are Mexicans who were in the United States illegally. Another defendant is a Mexican citizen who was in asylum proceedings in the United States, authorities said in court records.

Thieves typically scout merchandise on rail lines that parallel Interstate 40 by boarding slow-moving trains, such as when they are changing tracks and opening containers, said Keith Lewis, vice president of operations at Verisk’s CargoNet and a deputy sheriff in Arizona.

Lewis told the Times that the thieves are sometimes tipped off to valuable shipments by associates working at warehouses or trucking companies.

The suspects are aided by accomplices in “follow vehicles,” which track the rail cars. The loot is tossed off the train after it comes to a halt — either for a scheduled stop or because an air hose has been cut, according to Brynna Cooke, a Homeland Security Investigations special agent cited in affidavits filed in federal court.

Thefts from cargo trains cost the nation’s six largest freight railroads more than $100 million last year because of a combination of the value of the stolen goods and the cost of repairs to railcars the thieves damaged, and the problem is getting worse in recent years as the thefts have become more organized and sophisticated. The Association of American Railroads trade group estimates that the number of thefts jumped roughly 40% last year to 65,000 nationwide.

The railroads have invested millions in measures to help prevent such thefts, but it’s not like they can easily restrict access to the more than 140,000 miles of track they operate across the country. It crosses remote, rural areas and cuts through the heart of many cities carrying millions of shipments of everything from bulk commodities like coal and grain to raw materials like rock. Automobiles and metal shipping containers filled with nearly every kind of product imaginable that’s imported or exported also are transported.

The rail trade group said additional federal enforcement and tougher penalties are needed to deter the thefts, which are a chronic problem. The railroads estimate that only about 1 out of every 10 theft attempts result in an arrest, and many of the people who are arrested are repeat offenders. One railroad even reported arresting the same individual five times in a single day.

With reporting from the Associated Press

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A town hall meeting hosted by controversial Indiana Republican Victoria Spartz descended into chaos after the congresswoman gave apparently unsatisfactory answers to several questions from constituents.

The room erupted with boos and chants on Friday after Spartz said she would not be calling for the resignation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other members of the so-called Signalgate group chat.

“Would you demand the immediate resignation of Pete Hegseth, Michael Waltz and the rest of the group chat?” one woman asked, prompting cheers and chants of “lock him up” from others in the room.

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“No I will not demand their resignations,” Spartz replied, sparking an angry response. “And actually all of the resignations go through the Senate anyway so you should talk to the Senators, maybe they’ll have town halls.”

Spartz, who was born in Ukraine but emigrated to the United States in 2000 at the age of 22, later referred to the incident, in which classified information about U.S. military operations in Yemen was discussed on Signal, a commercial messaging service, and also inadvertently shared with a journalist from The Atlantic, as an “innocent mistake” – prompting more vocal responses.

Elsewhere at the town hall, attendees confronted Spartz about the Trump administration’s actions and her past vote against aid for Ukraine. “I just wonder why that you don’t want to support your own people?” one attendee said, per CNN.

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“My number one job as an American congresswoman is to protect interests, American interests, and make sure that your money, when we give it to any foreign power is —” Spartz began to reply before being cut off by the crowd.

The congresswoman has been an advocate for U.S. support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia, but has been critical of the Kyiv government – as well as prime minister Volodymyr Zelensky. Last year she also voted against $61 billion in aid for Ukraine.

Throughout the rest of the event Spartz was interrupted by loud shouting, as well as some constituents who walked out of the event – encouraging others to follow suit.

Saturday’s town hall followed an equally raucous event on Friday. That crowd became enraged after Spartz told them: "If you violated the law, you are not entitled to due process."

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Writing on X following the event, the congresswoman wrote: “I don’t think radical left has learned yet that shouting and screaming is not going to work - no one is going to be intimidated.

“I still appreciate everyone who came to my town halls this week & hope at least some on the left were able to hear common sense policies we are trying to implement benefiting all Americans.”

Spartz has been a controversial figure for some time. Last year she faced an investigation by the House ethics committee over alleged “abuse” of staffers.

The allegations were first reported by Politico, which cited multiple complaints over the congresswoman’s “general toxicity” and “rage.” Staffers claimed Spartz asked one to die for her and said she would constantly berate her staff calling them “r******” and “children” resulting in multiple resignations from her office.

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Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong will step down from her current role and return to lead the university’s medical center, the school’s board of trustees announced Friday.

“Dr. Armstrong accepted the role of interim president at a time of great uncertainty for the University and worked tirelessly to promote the interests of our community,” David J. Greenwald, chair of the Columbia Board of Trustees, wrote in a statement. “Katrina has always given her heart and soul to Columbia. We appreciate her service and look forward to her continued contributions to the University.”

Armstrong’s exit comes at a tumultuous time for the university.

Last week, Columbia agreed to implement a series of sweeping changes to win back potential access to $400 million in federal funding the Trump administration is threatening to withhold over allegations the school hasn’t done enough to combat antisemitism amid pro-Gaza protests.

The changes include building up a new campus police force, partially banning face masks, and removing faculty control over the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies.

Academics within and outside the university widely condemned the move as an unprecedented capitulation to outside influence.

In addition to the funding threat, Columbia has also been at the center of the administration’s crackdown on non-citizen student activists who took part in the 2023 and 2024 campus pro-Palestine protests amid the Israel-Hamas war.

The first widely reported immigration arrest of the campaign was that of green card-holder Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia grad and student activist who was initially detained at a university-owned apartment building earlier this month. He is challenging his detention in court, alleging he is being punished for exercising his constitutionally protected free speech rights.

Board of Trustees co-chair Claire Shipman, a journalist and Columbia alum, has been appointed acting president as the school continues a leadership search.

Armstrong is the second person to leave the top job at Columbia in the span of 12 months.

Minouche Shafik, an economist and former World Bank official, resigned in 2024, following a tenure that included large-scale campus protests featuring an encampment and students occupying a university building, as well as accusations of tolerating antisemitism.

Shafik came in for criticism from some students for allowing multiple large-scale police operations against protesters on campus, the first since Vietnam War protests.

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Germany's Scholz says Trump's tariffs are wrong, everyone will lose

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday that Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on cars is wrong and the U.S. president had chosen a path that would produce only losers.

“U.S. President Trump's decision is wrong,” Scholz said in a statement. “The U.S. has chosen a path at whose end lie only losers, since tariffs and isolation hurt prosperity, for everyone.”

Government officials added that Germany and the European Union would defend free trade as the foundation of their prosperity, with the European Commission, the bloc's executive, in charge of that process.

Reuters27 March 2025 17:15

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