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Shea Stevens
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. The Trump administration has revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students. And as NPR's Alyssa Nadwerny reports, details were spelled out in a letter to the school.
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Alyssa Nadwerny
The letter, signed by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, says the administration is terminating Harvard's student exchange certification. That prevents Harvard from enrolling new students and pulls the rug out from under currently enrolled international students. In a statement, Noem says the administration is holding Harvard accountable for, quote, fostering violence, anti Semitism and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party. Harvard says the government's actions are unlawful. The University has nearly 7,000 international students, roughly one fourth of the student body. More than a million international students study at U.S. colleges and universities, contributing more than $43 billion to the U.S. economy. Alyssa Nadworny, NPR News.
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Shea Stevens
The U.S. supreme Court says presidents have the authority to fire the heads of independent federal agencies. As NPR's Nina Totenberg reports, the 63 decision is temporary but significant, and it angered the court's liberal they were pretty mad.
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Nina Totenberg
Justice Kagan, speaking for them, quoted Alexander Hamilton as saying, to avoid an arbitrary discretion in the courts, it is indispensable that they should be bound down by strict rules and precedents. Today's order, she said, favors the president over our precedent. And she added, it does this unrestrained by the rules of briefing and argument and the passage of time needed to discipline our decision making.
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Shea Stevens
NPR's Zena Totenberg, some black attorneys general are resisting the Justice Department's decision to abandon consent decrees with police departments in multiple cities. NPR's Sandhya Dirks has the story.
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Sandhya Dirks
Consent decrees allow for the federal government to oversee police departments that have been found to be in violation of the law. Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford told press and his peers effectively ending their use is a loss for civil rights.
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Aaron Ford
Too many families are still living in fear, and too many neighborhoods are bearing the scars of injustice. That's why I'm calling on every state attorney general, on every advocate in this virtual room to seize this moment.
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Sandhya Dirks
Civil rights leaders say in places where state AGs don't take the lead, they'll use the courts. Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Department of Justice's civil Rights division, claimed the agreements were, quote, reliant on faulty legal theories. Sandhya Dirks, NPR News.
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Shea Stevens
A vigil was held outside of the Capitol Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. tonight to honor two Israeli embassy staffers gunned down there Wednesday. A suspect identified as Elias Rodriguez of Chicago is facing two counts of first degree murder. Authorities say Rodriguez shouted Free Palestine after being arrested. This is npr. A small plane carrying six people crashed into a military community in San Diego Thursday. They are believed to be no survivors. The victims were employees of an El Cajon based talent agency, including the company's co founder. Authorities say the plane went down in foggy weather, igniting a home and numerous vehicles in the community. The Trump administration plans to stop minting pennies. NPR Scott Horsley reports that the federal government has been losing money on the $0.01 coins, which each cost nearly $0.04 to make.
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Scott Horsley
A Treasury Department spokeswoman says the government has placed its last order for blank pennies and will stop production of the $0.01 coins as soon as that's exhausted. The phaseout is expected to save the government about $56 million a year in reduced material cost. Pennies will remain legal tender, which is good since there are about 114 billion of them floating around out there. Most don't really circulate, though. Instead, they gather dust in dresser top change jars and forgotten pants pockets. The phase out of the penny may force businesses to round prices up or down to the nearest nickel. That's less of a hassle, though, now that customers pay cash for fewer than one in five transactions. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
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Shea Stevens
The University of Maryland's 2025 graduating class heard from Kermit the Frog before receiving their diplomas Thursday. A bronze statue of Kermit and its Muppets creator, Jim Henson, are fixtures on the university's College park campus. It was Kermit's second commencement address since addressing students at Southampton College in 1996. This is NPR News.
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