News on Freedoms/Education

April 19th - April 25th, 2025

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Saturday/Sunday - April 19th - 20th

• Thousands protest, as new round of anti-Trump rallies hits US cities

• Anti-Trump protesters rally in New York, Washington and elsewhere across the country

• Thousands of protesters rally against Trump across US

• PHOTOS: Anti-Trump protesters rally in cities and towns across the country

• Protesters unite against Trump in hundreds of rallies across the U.S.

• Seattle officers who attended Jan. 6 rally ask US Supreme Court to keep their identities anonymous

• Harvard says Trump administration doubled down after sending letter reported as unauthorized

• ‘Everything is stuck’: dad of American hostage urges US to hold Hamas talks

• They sold their likenesses to AI companies. Now they regret it

• Man wrongly deported from US says he’s been moved from El Salvador mega-prison

• From gifted student to AI hero, DeepSeek founder inspires a nation

• Chinese team’s AI paper paved the way for ChatGPT. Greater glory awaits by 2030

• Running robots put through their paces alongside humans in Beijing half-marathon

• Can robots outrun humans? This Chinese half-marathon found out

• LGBTQ book controversy in Maryland schools spills over to US Supreme Court

• A prince and knight fall in love and the Supreme Court is asked to intervene

Monday - April 21st

• National Gallery of Art Director Meets with Elon Musk’s DOGE

• Trump’s foolhardy spat with Harvard is just tip of the iceberg

• Harvard University sues to block Trump from slashing billions in research funding

• More than 5 million student loan borrowers are in default. Education Department says they will be referred to debt collection

• ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Revocation of Visas for Students at US Universities, Including RISD

• El Salvadore’s Bukele suggests prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuela deportees

• Canadian hockey fans conflicted over traveling to U.S. to see their teams in NHL playoffs

• 5 jobs for a jobseeker: in China, PhD may have far more opportunities than in US

• Keeping Kids Interested in Science Is a Matter of Language

• Instagram tries using AI to determine if teens are pretending to be adults

• Abortions are resuming at a Wyoming clinic after judge suspends laws

• Brother of Venezuelan migrant on the brink of US deportation pleas for help

• Texas Walmart shooter who killed 23 avoids death penalty by pleading guilty

Tuesday - April 22nd

• The top producer at ’60 Minutes’ has quit. He says he can no longer run the show as he always has

• US college presidents unite against Trump's higher education policies

• Read the full letter from universities opposing ‘government intrusion’

• Yale University explores sale of private equity fund interests

• Harvard University sues Trump over threats to cut US$2.2 billion in funding

• Inside Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration

• Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism

• Anti-Defamation League says anger at Israel is now the driving force behind antisemitism in the US

• Veterans Affairs asks employees in email to report ‘anti-Christian bias’

• Chinese universities are dominating global research on chips, US report says

• What Hong Kong must do to benefit from talent dislocation in the US

• What Trump should be making great again are the lives of Americans

• China cracks quantum code barrier. For how long will our data be safe?

• US opposition to Trump has mobilised, but is it enough to slow his agenda down?

• Fireworks as thousands greet Serbian students who cycled to France seeking EU support for protests

• Immigrants in the US unlawfully can drive legally in 19 states. Now some states want to stop them

• Detained Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil was denied release for his son’s birth, his wife says

• Anti-Defamation League says anger at Israel is now the driving force behind antisemitism in the US

• What is the highly coveted H-1B visa? Trump administration moves put attention on the program

• Dave Eggers writes sequel to his prize-winning children’s book ‘The Eyes & The Impossible’

• The Great AI Lock-In Has Begun

Wednesday - April 23rd

• NIH autism study will pull from private medical records

• Firing Science Advisors Will Leave the U.S. Senseless

• Cops Are Using AI Bots to Surveil People

• Trump signs executive orders targeting colleges, plus schools’ equity efforts

• The Crises of Due Process

• Environmental groups say Trump administration violated their free-speech rights

• What to know as the government begins collections on defaulted student debt

• Orders to leave the country — some for US citizens — sow confusion among immigrants

• Southeast Asians in Los Angeles detained, deported at routine ICE check-ins

• Presence of Indonesian students in Israel stirs debate over Palestinian issue

• Malaysian journalist in bribe scandal returns, vows to report ‘without fear’

• International students stripped of legal status in the US are piling up wins in court

• Black churches back embattled Smithsonian African American history museum after Trump’s order

• Book publishers see surging interest in the US Constitution and print new editions

• A little-known federal agency is at the center of Trump’s executive order to overhaul US elections

• Veterans Affairs asks employees to report ‘anti-Christian bias’ for investigation by new task force

• Complaints about ransomware attacks on US infrastructure rise 9%, FBI says

Thursday - April 24th

• US election officials question agency about Trump’s order overhauling election operations

• Harvard University exploring $1 billion of private equity stakes sale, source says

• Who accredits US universities and what does Trump want to change?

• Americans are protesting the Trump administration. Do they work?Surprise fortune left behind by Pope revealed

• Venezuelans subject to removal under wartime act have 12 hours to decide on contesting, docs show

• Largest federal employee union, a leading Trump opponent, to lay off more than half of staff

• Shooter in 2022 Chicago-area parade massacre sentenced to life in prison

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Friday - April 25th

• Stop doing this with your phone immediately

• Trump administration to restore foreign students' legal status, for now

• US universities help foreign students weather Trump purge

• Trump cuts to humanities grants undermine a stated priority: Restoring religion

• Fears of racial profiling swirl over registration policy for immigrants in the US illegally

• As immigrant arrests surge, complaints of abuse mount at America’s oldest detention center in Miami

• Harvard researcher held in Louisiana awaits judge’s decision on deportation to Russia

• Kennedy Center’s events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration canceled, organizers say

• Pope Francis sought to make LGBTQ+ people more welcome, but church doctrine didn’t change much

• Migrant, homeless and trans crowd to pay respects to Pope Francis at funeral

• Fears of racial profiling swirl over registration policy for immigrants in the US illegally

• Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to federal death penalty charge in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing

• College journalists wrestle with transparency as students fear deportation for speaking out

• The end of the Vietnam War was also a turning point for protest songs

• Migrants deterred by Trump's border crackdown wait for UN help to return home

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• China’s data protection rules prompt pause from major European research funders

• US prosecutors to seek death penalty against Luigi Mangione in UnitedHealth executive's murder

• Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty as prosecutors seek death penalty

• Luigi Mangione's case marks a shift in politics of the death penalty in the U.S.

• Sean 'Diddy' Combs' lawyer defends 'swinger' lifestyle after rapper rejected plea

• They say they want Americans to have more babies. What's beneath the surface?