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CNN
an hour ago
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- CNN
Unpacking Trump's Targeting of Universities & Foreign Students - Amanpour - Podcast on CNN Audio
Unpacking Trump's Targeting of Universities & Foreign Students Amanpour 42 mins As President Trump and his allies escalate the administration's battle on colleges, and on Harvard specifically, Steven Levitsky, Harvard professor and author of 'How Democracies Die,' joins Christiane to discuss the reshaping of knowledge in America. Then, best-selling German author Daniel Kehlmann speaks with Christiane about his new book 'The Director," exploring what it was like for artists like G.W. Pabst who made films for Joseph Goebbels and the Nazis. Marking 600 days of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, Christiane highlights both Jeremy Diamond's report on Israel's fight to get back the 58 remaining hostages in Hamas captivity and Oren Lieberman's story on the chaotic aid delivery to starving Palestinians this week. Christiane also talks to Wilfred Frost, son of the legendary TV host David Frost, about his father's iconic interviews with the likes of Richard Nixon, Yasser Arafat and Elton John, and a new documentary series following his storied career. From her archive, Christiane pays tribute to award-winning Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. Finally, marking 45 years since CNN's founding, Christiane revisits her conversation with company founder Ted Turner about how he changed the news business forever.
Bloomberg
a day ago
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- Bloomberg
Rubio Says Lack of Social-Media Profile Could Prompt Visa Denial
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday ordered more scrutiny of the social-media profiles of any foreigners seeking to visit Harvard University, telling US consular officers that applicants' lack of an online presence might be enough evidence to deny a visa. Rubio's cable, sent to embassies worldwide, marked the latest salvo by the Trump administration against Harvard, the foreign students who go there and elite universities more broadly. Rubio said the procedure spelled out in the document would serve as a pilot for the future days after he halted interviews for student visas to consider ways to weed out applicants deemed to pose possible risks to US national security.
Bloomberg
a day ago
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- Bloomberg
Rubio Ramps Up Pressure on Harvard With Expanded Visa Scrutiny
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ramped up pressure on Harvard University on Friday with an order to focus even more scrutiny on the social-media profiles of any foreigner who seeks a visa to visit the school. In a cable sent to embassies worldwide on Friday, Rubio called for consular officers to conduct 'a complete screening of the online presence' for any applicant who wants to visit Harvard, including but not limited to 'prospective students, students, faculty, employees, contractors, guest speakers, and tourists.'
The Guardian
a day ago
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- The Guardian
Trump's vitriolic social media posts become key factor in legal cases
Donald Trump's social media posts have emerged as a factor in legal cases brought against his administration by institutions and law firms resisting his attempts to force them to submit to his presidential power. The president's vituperative rhetorical assaults on Harvard – whose professors he has denounced as 'bird brains' – on his Truth Social platform are being highlighted by the university's lawyers, who believe they show his attempts to slash its funding and cancel its right to enroll foreign students is fuelled by personal animus. Trump called Harvard, the world's richest university, 'an antisemitic, far left institution' in a social media diatribe after it sued to block a $2.2bn funding freeze his administration tried to impose. The same post accused the university of admitting students from 'all over the world who want to rip our country apart', an assertion that has acquired fresh resonance since the attempt to bar it from admitting students from abroad. Around 5,000 foreign students – 27% of the current student body – are currently studying there. He also called some Harvard students 'crazed lunatics' who 'spew fake anger and hate'. Last Sunday, after a judge blocked his administration's attempt to stop Harvard's right to enroll overseas students, he demanded 'names and countries' of every foreign student at the university. 'We want to know who those foreign students are, a reasonable request since we give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but Harvard isn't exactly forthcoming,' Trump posted. Lawyers representing Harvard referenced the posts in their presentation to a court in Boston on Thursday. The judge, Allison Burroughs extended a temporary restraining order issued last week blocking the ban. 'The Truth Social posts prove a deep hostility to Harvard, and Harvard believes they also suggest that hostility is based on Harvard's exercise of its first amendment activity,' David Super, a law professor at Georgetown University told the New York Times. 'So these quotes help Harvard prove its particular claims.' In one especially vitriolic post last month, Trump wrote: 'Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and 'birdbrains' who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called 'future leaders'.' Harvard, in common with many other universities, has been accused of failing to combat antisemitism following outbreaks of campus protests over Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza. The tug-of-war intensified after its president, Alan Garber, rejected administration demands for reforms that the university bosses say would mean surrendering vital academic freedoms. Trump has since threatened on Truth Social to strip Harvard of its tax-exempt status, writing: 'We are going to be taking away Harvard's Tax Exempt Status. It's what they deserve!' The attempt to block foreign student enrollment – an important source of university revenue – was first announced last Friday by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who accused Harvard's leaders of failing to 'confront pervasive race discrimination and antisemitic harassment'. She also said the university's leadership had 'engaged in coordinated activity with the [Chinese communist party]'. Trump's social media posts have been cited in other recent cases challenging his administration's actions. Sign up to This Week in Trumpland A deep dive into the policies, controversies and oddities surrounding the Trump administration after newsletter promotion In a ruling this month, Judge Beryl Howell cited numerous posts written by Trump about the law firm Perkins Coie in striking down an executive order he issued stripping it of security clearance and the right to access federal buildings. The executive order was unlike any other issued by previous US presidents, wrote Howell, adding that it 'came from a playbook as old as Shakespeare, who penned the phrase: 'The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.'' She added: 'Perkins Coie's representation of President Trump's political opponent in the 2016 presidential campaign and representation of other clients in connection with election litigation has drawn President Trump's attention and ire, as reflected in his public statements.' The vehemence of Trump's Truth Social musings became an issue in last year's election campaign. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, analysed 13,000 of his messages and found multiple threats of revenge, retaliation and retribution against his political opponents, including Joe Biden, if he returned to power. One reading ''IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I'M COMING AFTER YOU!' was invoked by prosecutors as evidence in court filings. Trump, in turn, claimed his posts were being used against him as he fought justice department investigations into his role in the January 6 insurrection and retention of classified documents. His recent prolific posting also reprises his actions during a trial last year over a defamation action brought by the writer, E Jean Carroll, after she had successfully sued for damages for sexual abuse. At one point, Trump posted more than 35 times – sharing articles from conservative social media about Carroll, who was suing him for defaming her while he was president – over an eight hour period before he was due to testify, while also attacking the trial judge. Earlier in the proceeedings, he posted more than 40 times in under an hour, challenging the veracity of her story. Carroll was subsequently awarded $83m in damages.
The Independent
a day ago
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- The Independent
Harvard president takes swipe at Trump after president's repeated threats
Harvard University 's president took a swipe at Donald Trump 's attempts to kick foreign students out of the Ivy League institution. Speaking at the university's commencement ceremony for the class of 2025 on Thursday (29 May), Alan Garber addressed people 'from down the street, across the country and around the world'. His comments received a thunderous applause, after which he reiterated: 'Around the world, just as it should be.' The crowd of graduates and Harvard community members then gave Mr Gerber a standing ovation. His comments appeared to be a swipe at the Trump administration's push to block the university from enrolling foreign students, a plan that was blocked by a federal judge.
