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Report: HBCUs Receive Less Than 1% of Federal R&D Funds

A new report from the Center for American Progress and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund shows that historically Black colleges and universities receive a disproportionately low percentage of federal research and development funding. While HBCUs make up roughly 3 percent of all four-year higher ed institutions, they’ve received less than 3 percent of R&D funding since at least 2010, according to the report. In recent years, between 2018 and 2023, they were awarded less than 1 percent of R&D expenditures. Some agencies have given HBCUs a relatively high proportion of R&D funding, including the Department of Education, the Small Business Administration and the Department of

Congress Proposes Silver Dollar to Honor Charlie Kirk

Written by Lexx Thornton Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) and Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) are set to introduce legislation this week that would instruct the Department of the Treasury to mint 400,000 silver dollar coins in commemoration of Charlie Kirk.   Since Kirk’s assassination two weeks ago, Republican lawmakers have sought to ensure that Kirk’s memory is not forgotten, from passing a resolution honoring Kirk’s life to declaring October 14 — Kirk’s birthday — The National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk.  And now, Pfluger and Hamadeh are calling on President Donald Trump and the Treasury to collaborate on a silver dollar

Black Pastors Reject Martyr Narrative of Charlie Kirk

How Charlie Kirk is being memorialized — with many conservatives and white Christians, particularly evangelicals, emphasizing his faith and labeling him a martyr — has sparked debate among Black clergy, who are trying to square a heroic view of the 31-year-old with insulting statements about people of color that were key to his political activism. “How you die does not redeem how you lived,” the Rev. Howard-John Wesley, of Alexandria, Virginia, said in a sermon in the aftermath of Kirk’s killing that has amassed tens of thousands of views online. The reactions to Kirk’s death marked a notable split-screen moment

Fired GSA Staff Recalled After Musk’s Job Cuts Backfire

Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work. The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers — to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for

Fired Educators Sue Schools Over Posts on Charlie Kirk Death

By Tyler Kingkade After dozens of school districts and colleges fired employees or placed them on leave over social media posts about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, some of those employees are turning to federal courts to get their jobs back. A former Ball State University staff member is suing the Indiana school’s president after she was fired for posting on Facebook: “Charlie Kirk’s death is a reflection of the violence, fear and hatred he sowed. It does not excuse his death, AND it’s a sad truth.” An art teacher in central Iowa filed a suit last week after the Oskaloosa school board voted to fire him for posting

Rep. Nikema Williams Demands Federal Action on HBCU Threats

Atlanta Congresswoman Nikema Williams has issued a call for federal prosecutions over recent threats made to Clark Atlanta and other HBCUs. Rep. Williams said in a release Monday she had sent a joint letter with two other Democratic representatives, from Louisiana and Virginia, to FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi on the matter. The congresswoman said the letter urges the FBI and DOJ to “prosecute any persons found to have made these threats to the fullest extent of the law, including consideration of whether any actions violated federal, state, or local hate crimes, or anti-terrorism statutes.” Threats were made

Trump Links Tylenol to Autism, Sparks Medical Backlash

By Berkeley Lovelace Jr., Aria Bendix and Erika Edwards President Donald Trump endorsed unsubstantiated claims about a link between Tylenol and autism Monday and made a variety of outlandish claims about childhood vaccinations, offering perhaps his most emphatic support to date of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda. At a White House briefing, Trump announced that his administration is issuing a warning to doctors not to recommend acetaminophen — the active ingredient in Tylenol and other widely used medications — for pregnant women, claiming it may be linked to autism in children. “I want to say it like it is: Don’t take Tylenol.

Pentagon Imposes New Media Rules, Reporters Fear Limits

By Anne Flaherty Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday unveiled unprecedented new restrictions on building access for Pentagon reporters that prompted worries among media outlets that the policy would be used to crack down on independent reporting and limit the flow of information on military operations. The sweeping new rules to access the building prohibit “unprofessional conduct that might serve to disrupt Pentagon operations,” as well as “attempts to improperly obtain” classified or unclassified information deemed “controlled,” according to a memo released to reporters. Reporters who decline to agree to the terms or are found violating the rules would lose

Trump’s Supreme Court Winning Streak: Key Cases & Strategy

By Lawrence Hurley and Katherine Doyle While President Donald Trump’s aggressive use of executive power has resulted in a flurry of lawsuits, administration officials have won a series of high-profile victories at the Supreme Court in part due to careful case selection aimed at securing the backing of the conservative majority. The White House has won 18 times at the Supreme Court since Trump took office and is on a 15-case winning run. The last loss was in May. “They’re ecstatic,” a person close to the White House said of the series of recent legal wins, adding that officials do not want to

Trump Admin Faces Backlash Over Free Speech, Kimmel Ban

By Henry J. Gomez At their convention five years ago, President Donald Trump and his Republican Party rallied their supporters fervently against an idea they characterized as a rot on society: cancel culture. Too many people, they argued one by one in prime-time speeches, were being publicly ostracized — in some cases losing their jobs — for exercising their constitutional right to free speech. “To the voiceless, shamed, censored and canceled, my father will fight for you,” Eric Trump pledged then. But the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was among the speakers at that 2020 convention, seems to have rapidly shifted how Trump and other

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