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The White House confirmed that more than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and  $790 million for Northwestern University have been frozen while the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at both schools. A Trump administration official said “the money was frozen in connection with several ongoing, credible, and concerning Title VI investigations,” […]

Authorities confirmed on Wednesday that four teenagers are in custody following a shooting during an illegal gun sale and robbery in northeastern Virginia on Tuesday evening that left three people dead and three others injured. The Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office received calls about a shooting just outside of Fredericksburg, in the area of Olde Greenwich Drive […]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration’s firing of 16,000 probationary federal employees across six agencies and departments to go forward. The high court’s 7-2 decision blocks a ruling from a lower court judge that required the government to temporarily reinstate more than 16,000 probationary employees (per CNN). In the unsigned, two paragraph opinion, […]

The stock market slid on Tuesday at closing, after a rally that had sent the S&P 500 and Nasdaq up more than 4% earlier in the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 320 points – or 0.8%; while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index dropped 2.2%, and the S&P 500 fell 1.5%, putting the […]