{"id":19517,"date":"2025-04-16T07:49:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wednesday-briefing-a-trump-harvard-showdown\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:49:16","slug":"wednesday-briefing-a-trump-harvard-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wednesday-briefing-a-trump-harvard-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Briefing: A Trump-Harvard Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-613675ed\">Trump escalated a feud with Harvard<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After freezing $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard University, President Trump turned up the pressure yesterday and threatened <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-harvard-tax-status.html\" title=\"\">to revoke its tax-exempt status<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The fight between the Trump administration and the nation\u2019s oldest and most elite university was headed for a showdown that could affect other U.S. institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Harvard has rejected the administration\u2019s demands that it make changes to the university\u2019s policies and programs related to diversity hiring and the tolerance of anti-Israel protests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Details:<\/strong> With an endowment of $50 billion, Harvard is uniquely positioned to withstand the funding freeze. The university\u2019s strong refusal of Trump\u2019s demands <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/14\/us\/politics\/harvard-trump.html\" title=\"\">has injected energy<\/a> into other universities fearful of the president\u2019s wrath.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Ripple effects:<\/strong> Columbia University, which has faced criticism for not striking a more defiant stand, showed signs of adopting a tougher tone yesterday. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/nyregion\/columbia-trump-president-response.html\" title=\"\">The new acting president pledged<\/a> that the university would not allow the government to \u201crequire us to relinquish our independence and autonomy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">For more:<\/strong> Critics say that the Trump administration\u2019s demands are an attack on academic freedom. Here\u2019s what to know <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/trump-university-college.html\" title=\"\">about Trump\u2019s targeting<\/a> of universities.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-5fb6ce07\">More on Trump<\/h2>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3bca1b4\">Scenes from Ukraine, where a truce seems far away<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two of our reporters and a photographer traveled to Sumy, a city in northern Ukraine, a day after Russian airstrikes hit a central neighborhood on Palm Sunday, killing 34 people. They witnessed another Russian attack on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Palm Sunday attack has become an argument that peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv are failing. In Sumy, the attack has set off preparation for a possible new Russian ground assault in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The feeling in Sumy \u201cis of fear, ceaseless tension and frayed nerves,\u201d our reporters wrote. For residents, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/world\/europe\/ukraine-sumy-palm-sunday-russia-war.html\" title=\"\">there are no signs<\/a> of a cease-fire.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4dc4cdf1\">Autopsies showed some Gaza medics were shot in the head<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The paramedics and rescue workers killed in an Israeli shooting in Gaza last month died mainly from gunshots <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-medics-autopsies-israel.html\" title=\"\">to the head or chest<\/a>, according to autopsy reports obtained by The Times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The autopsy reports said that 11 of the men had gunshot wounds and that most had been shot multiple times. Three others had shrapnel wounds. Israel\u2019s military said it was investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Related: <\/strong><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-hospital-israel-military.html\" title=\"\">An Israeli strike killed a security guard<\/a> and wounded 10 patients at a field hospital in southern Gaza, the hospital\u2019s director said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-55bd377a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">MORE TOP NEWS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The small Finnish city of Rovaniemi has branded itself as \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/world\/asia\/santa-finland-rovaniemi.html\" title=\"\">the Official Hometown of Santa Claus<\/a>,\u201d with a tourist season that runs from October to March. Local residents are anything but jolly, with many complaining of out-of-control development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Our reporter traveled to the city, where tourism brings in more than 400 million euros a year. \u201cThe people who benefit are happy,\u201d a man in a red suit and a long white beard told him. \u201cThose who don\u2019t \u2014 they\u2019re jealous.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Lives lived:<\/strong> <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/arts\/elsa-honig-fine-dead.html\" title=\"\">Elsa Honig Fine<\/a>, an art historian who published textbooks on Black and female artists, died at 94.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-286d948a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">CONVERSATION STARTERS <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4d14a17d\">The fight over Van Gogh\u2019s roots<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Auvers-sur-Oise, a village near Paris, is where Vincent Van Gogh spent his final days. There, art experts in 2020 identified some gnarled tree roots on a hillside as those depicted in his final painting \u201cTree Roots.\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/world\/europe\/van-gogh-tree-roots-france-auvers-sur-oise.html\" title=\"\">There has been strife in the village ever since<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The owners of a property near the roots have been locked in a fight with the municipality, which has claimed part of their land for a historic site. 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