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Brown University stops hosting controversial history program after Trump antisemitism crackdown • Apr. 23, 2025, 12:06 AM ET (Jerusalem Post)

Today in Politics: PM Modi-US V-P Vance meet; Rahul at Brown University • Apr. 20, 2025, 4:52 PM ET (The Indian Express)

Brown University to see half a billion in federal funding halted by Trump administration • Apr. 3, 2025, 9:09 PM ET (AP)

A look at the people ensnared in Trump's campaign against pro-Palestinian activism at US colleges • Apr. 1, 2025, 6:38 PM ET (AP)

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Horace Mann • Samuel Gridley Howe • Richard Fleischer • Charles Evans Hughes • Marilynne Robinson • Taryn Simon • Ken Starr • Ira Glass • Laura Linney • Edwidge Danticat • Jim Yong Kim • Todd Haynes • Janet Yellen • Cecile Richards • Rudolph Fisher • Maggie Hassan • John Davis Pierce • Fritz Pollard • John Bates Clark • Nicanor Parra • Thomas J. Watson, Jr. • John Hope • Abby Lillian Marlatt • Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth • Mary Emma Woolley • Richard Kostelanetz • John F. Kennedy, Jr. • Emma Watson • Ted Chiang • Stephen L. Buchwald • Guido Imbens • Jessica Meir • Jeffrey Eugenides • Ottessa Moshfegh • Kevin Young • André Leon Talley • Lois Lowry • John Krasinski • Douglas Diamond • Wendy Carlos

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