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Windsor Johnston
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. A federal court in Maryland will hold a hearing today in the case of a man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador last month. NPR's Franco Ardonez reports. The Trump administration was ordered to help facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but the White House says it can't comply.
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Franco Ardonez
The Trump team is downplaying this as a paperwork issue. They insist Abrego Garcia has ties to the Ms. 13 gang. Again, his lawyer says he's not a member.
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Windsor Johnston
NPR's Franco Ardonez. Despite a Supreme Court ruling directing the White House to facilitate his return, El Salvador maintains custody of Abrego Garcia. The man's family continues to push for his release, stressing his lack of criminal history and the dangers he faces in El Salvador. The Trump administration is freezing $2 billion in federal grants to Harvard University. NPR's Alyssa Nadworny reports. The withholding of funds follows the university's refusal to comply with the list of demands from the administration.
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Alyssa Nadworny
On Monday, the nation's wealthiest university became the first college to say it would not comply with a list of demands from the federal government, saying they were unlawful in exchange for federal funds. The Trump administration's demands included reporting foreign students who commit conduct violations to federal authorities, giving students and faculty less power in university affairs, and having an outside party oversee academic departments for what the administration calls viewpoint diversity. The changes stem from a federal investigation of Harvard and dozens of other schools over diversity efforts and alleged anti Semitism on campus. Alyssa Nadworny, NPR News.
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Windsor Johnston
In a post on social media today, President Trump suggested that Harvard University should lose its tax exempt status. It's the first public comment from the president since the administration froze federal funding. A vaccine advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is holding its first public meeting of the Trump administration today. NPR's Ping Huang reports. This meeting was postponed from February.
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Ping Huang
In the two day public meeting, CDC staff will present data and updates on a range of vaccines to a panel of independent advisors who will then discuss and vote on recommendations for some of them, including RSV and Chikungunya. Claire Hannon, head of the association of Immunization Managers, says she's reassured by the meeting's agend.
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Jessie Rossman
Really glad to see that it's scheduled and that, you know, they're holding public comment.
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Ping Huang
The committee's advice shapes access and insurance coverage for vaccines. Vaccine advocates have been concerned that Trump administration officials would interfere with this committee by removing members. That has not happened yet. Ping Huang, NPR News.
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Windsor Johnston
On Wall street, the dow was up 138 points. This is nice. A graduate student from Tufts University is waiting to hear if she'll be released from immigration detention or have her case transferred following a hearing in federal court in Vermont on Monday. Turkish student Ruz Meza Ozturk is being held at a detention center in Louisiana. Jessie Rossman is with the ACLU of Massachusetts. She says the detainment sends a chilling message.
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Jessie Rossman
And, of course, this also is sending a very clear message from the government that if you speak in a way that the administrative disagrees with, you face.
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Windsor Johnston
The potential of punishment without evidence. The Trump administration accuses Oz Turk of supporting Hamas. The recipients of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship have been announced this morning in New York City, NPR's Neta Uluby reports. Fellowships are going to nearly 200 scholars, scientists and artists across four dozen fields.
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Neta Ulaby
This is the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows. They range from a paleontologist studying evolutionary responses to climate change to the best selling novelist Miranda July. She talked to WHYY's Fresh Air last year about writing All Fours, a book hailed as perhaps the first great perimenopause novel.
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Miranda July
Like if you're hiding the place where you're actually at, then it's hard to get to the next place.
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Neta Ulaby
Other Guggenheim Fellows include the novelist Jonathan Lethem and artist Theaster Gates, known for making abandoned old houses and buildings his medium. On average, grants range from 40 to $55,000. Neta Ulaby, NPR News.
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Windsor Johnston
I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News in Washington.
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