2025-08-06
14 分钟Good morning. It's Wednesday, August 6th.
I'm Shmeeta Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, how a booming industry is quietly driving up your electric bills,
journalists unveil a massive police misconduct database,
and can Adam Driver's booming voice keep cattle safe from predators?
But first,
to the Trump administration's moves against some of America's most elite colleges and universities.
The White House has cut and frozen billions of dollars of federal funding to push higher education institutions closer in line with its cultural worldview.
And the pressure seems to be working.
It's been kind of remarkable just how well that playbook has worked so far.
That's Bloomberg education reporter Liam Knox.
In recent weeks, three universities, Columbia, Brown,
and the University of Pennsylvania, struck deals with the administration to release frozen funds.
Taken together,
Columbia and Brown agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the federal government,
or in Brown's case, to local workforce development programs.
The government will now reportedly have access to standardized test scores and the GPAs of every student that applies to Columbia and Brown,
plus information about their race.
Officials at Penn, meanwhile,