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New college grads face a tougher job market

By J.J. McCorvey and Maya Huter This year’s new college graduates are heading into a tougher job market than last year’s — who had it worse off than the class before that — just as the Trump administration cracks down on student loan repayments. Recent grads’ unemployment rate was 5.8% as of March, up from 4.6% a year earlier, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported last week. The share of new graduates working jobs that don’t require their degrees — a situation known as “underemployment” — hit 41.2% in March, rising from 40.6% that same month in 2024. “Right now things are pretty frozen,” Allison

Corporation for Public Broadcasting sues Trump over attempted firings

By Brian Stelter The Trump administration has sparked another fight against public media. In emails from the White House, three board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) were told on Monday that they were “terminated,” effective immediately, “on behalf of President Donald J. Trump.” In response, the corporation filed a lawsuit on Tuesday. Under the law that created the corporation in 1967, Trump does not have the authority to fire them, CBP argues. The corporation seeks a ruling that confirms the termination emails have “no legal effect,” according to its lawsuit filed in DC. The three board members who received

Trump administration reveals how it targeted thousands of international students on visas

By Kimmy Yam and Chloe Atkins After thousands of international students abruptly lost their legal statuses in the past few months, the Department of Homeland Security offered some insight Tuesday into how some of the terminations were decided. At a court hearing in Washington about the recent targeting of many international students across the country, the department said it used 10 to 20 employees to run the names of 1.3 million foreign-born students through the National Crime Information Center, an FBI-run computerized index that includes criminal history information. The process populated the 6,400 “hits.” And from there, many students experienced terminations of their

Student loan collections restart Today

By Melissa Chan The federal government on Monday will resume collecting defaulted student loan payments from millions of people for the first time since the start of the pandemic, officials said. The Trump administration said it would collect the debt through a Treasury Department program that withholds payments through tax refunds, wages and government benefits. The U.S. Education Department has not collected on defaulted loans since March 2020. Of the nearly 43 million people who owe money, only a little more than a third have made regular payments, the agency said. In the last five years, student debt has grown to

Alabama HBCUs navigate political challenges, fight for funding

Alabama is home to more historically Black colleges and universities than any other state in the nation. Now, as President Donald Trump threatens university funding and diversity initiatives, the state’s 14 HBCUs are in a state of uncertainty as they scramble to secure their futures. “Ensuring that qualified individuals are provided the same opportunities as others is wrong how?” said Tommy Graham, an alum of Miles College near Birmingham. Trump has sent mixed messages to HBCUs, who focus on educating Black Americans but who also support a wide array of research, scholarship and jobs. Recent executive orders banning diversity, equity, and

An exhibit honoring victims of gun violence is taken down at ATF headquarters

By Kristin Wright An exhibit showing victims of gun violence has been taken down at the headquarters of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Department of Justice has confirmed. The exhibit showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence. A digital kiosk with biographies of each person was also part of the exhibit. An online version has also been taken down. The ATF enforces federal gun laws and is tasked with regulating the firearms industry. It is within the Department of Justice. One of those portraits taken down was of Robert Godwin Sr., who

Protesters unite against Trump in hundreds of rallies across the U.S.

By Emma Bowman Protesters turned out to demonstrate against the Trump administration in cities across the U.S. on Saturday, with organizers hoping to seize on what they say is growing resistance to anti-democratic policies. Hundreds of protests, rallies and other actions against the Trump administration are taking place in cities across the U.S. this weekend. In Washington, D.C., hundreds of protesters gathered in Lafayette Square outside the White House on Saturday morning to voice their opposition to the Trump administration. Demonstrators cited a range of concerns, including the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the administration’s moves to cut funding for research and higher education.

President Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS

By Clay Voytek President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for America’s two biggest public broadcasters, which have faced a series of attacks from the White House and Republican lawmakers accusing them of biased reporting. The order instructs the CPB’s board to terminate direct funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service to the “maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding.” It also orders the board to take steps to “minimize or eliminate” indirect funding to NPR and PBS. The executive order also directs Health

Howard University Graduate Schools Earn National Recognition in U.S. News & World Report Rankings

By Christen Hill Howard University is proud to celebrate a major milestone: The graduate school has earned coveted places among the top graduate schools in the nation.  The U.S. News & World Report rankings are a national recognition that places Howard’s Graduate Schools firmly in the top tier of institutions preparing the next generation of educators, researchers, and policymakers. “This ranking reflects Howard’s growing influence in the field of education through its rigorous programs, faculty scholarship, and robust partnerships with schools and educational agencies,” said Dr. Dana Williams graduate school Dean and professor of African American Literature.  “Rankings aren’t the ultimate measure of success, but they do

Trump offers advice to University of Alabama graduates in speech interspersed with politics

By Kim Chandler President Donald Trump offered some encouraging words and advice for graduating students at the University of Alabama on Thursday in a speech interspersed with impressions of transgender weightlifters, accusations that judges were interfering with his agenda and attacks on his predecessor, Joe Biden. The Republican’s jolting speech was standard fare for Trump and well received by the crowd in deep-red Alabama, which backed him in all three of his presidential runs. “You’re the first graduating class of the golden age of America,” the president told the graduates. But he quickly launched into a campaign-style diatribe, saying that the U.S. was

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