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Judge reverses Trump administration’s cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University
By COLLIN BINKLEY and MICHAEL CASEY Updated 4:39 PM CDT, September 3, 2025 BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday ordered the reversal of cuts of more than $2.6 billion in federal funding for Harvard University, delivering a significant victory to the Ivy League school in its battle with the Trump administration.
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- Middle class families in California pay LESS in taxes than in states like Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
- 50 million of the 52 million jobs created since the Cold War have been created in Democratic administrations. Republican presidents have one thing in common: recession.
- Life expectancy, infant mortality, deaths of despair, wages and uninsured rates are all worse off in red states.
- For Greg Abbott: California is the fourth largest economy in the WORLD. We contribute $83 billion to the federal government while Texas takes $71 billion.
- California is #1 in manufacturing, #1 in farming, #1 in new business starts, #1 in tech and VC investments, #1 in Fortune 500 companies, and the #1 public higher education system in the country.
- California has some of the strongest gun laws in the country and as a result has a 43% lower gun death rate than the rest of the U.S. according to data from the CDC while President Trump oversaw the largest spike in homicides recorded in U.S. history.
- Republicans across the country are fanning the flames of culture wars to distract from the fact that on health, wealth, and economic outcomes they are failing.
- Mississippi is the state with the highest murder rate, noting that the state’s murder rate is 180% higher than the city of Los Angeles, which has more people.
- The murder rate in Louisiana, the home state of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), is four times higher than California’s.
- The states with the highest homicide rates per 100,000 people are Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, according to 2023 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Mississippi’s homicide rate is 380% California’s, yet FOX NEWS refuses to cover it!
- Alabama has a homicide rate 290% higher than California’s, but Fox News is choosing to ignore that.
- Tennessee’s homicide rate is 220% higher than California’s, why is Fox News not covering it?