At least 31 universities are severing their partnerships with an organization that the Trump administration has accused of illegal racial discrimination in Ph.D. programs.

The Department of Education (ED) opened investigations into 45 universities in March 2025 over their partnership with ‘The Ph.D. Project,’ which ED said limits eligibility based on race. Now, Yale, New York University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Michigan and more than 25 other schools have signed the Department’s resolution agreeing to cut ties with the program. The investigation into the 14 remaining universities will continue, a Thursday press release states.

A man running to replace outgoing District of Columbia Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton faces a child pornography charge in the district.

Federal grand jurors indicted Angel Rios on Feb. 5 for allegedly distributing child pornography to a user on X, court documents show. Rios began messaging a male witness on the platform in December for a conversation about politics before turning it toward sexual topics, including how the two could be an “LGBT+ community leader power couple” while secretly raping children, the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges.

The opinion released by the Supreme Court that President Donald Trump cannot use the provisions of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs on trade that other countries have with the United States appears to have had only a “ho-hum” impact on that agenda.