2025-04-16
14 分钟Good morning.
It's Wednesday, April 16th.
I'm Shamita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, how U.S. allies are recalibrating after the tariff ramp up and roll back,
what we know about conditions at the mega prison in El Salvador where many deportees have been sent,
and how many people in California knew an earthquake was coming seconds before it hit.
But first, to President Trump's escalating attacks on colleges and universities.
Harvard President Alan Garber announced Monday that the university will quote,
not surrender its independence to comply with Trump's demands to change its hiring, admissions, and curriculum.
Federal officials moved swiftly to punish the school.
Trump threatened Harvard's tax-exempt status,
and the government says it's freezing over $2.2 billion in contracts and grants,
a move that will most likely impact research at Harvard and the university-affiliated hospital system.
Harvard is the oldest and richest university in the country,
which gives it some unique leverage that other schools don't have,
and it's now the very first school to hold its ground against the administration's demands.
The administration is targeting schools
that it claims allowed antisemitism to go unchecked at campus protests last year against Israel's war in Gaza,
and is pressuring these schools to do things like get rid of DEI initiatives.