Trump Targets Colleges Again With Sweeping Funding Agreement

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  President Trump targets higher ed again,

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  asking colleges to sign a sweeping agreement to get funding advantages.

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  Plus,

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  the US will for the first time provide Ukraine with intelligence for missile strikes deep inside Russia.

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  President Trump seems to have shifted from the strategy of carrot to the strategy of stick.

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  And that's obviously going to be very important for Europe

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  because they need American cover for whatever they decide to do with regards to Russia.

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  And why tech bosses say they can't find the right workers despite a sea of tech talent.

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  It's Thursday, October 2nd.

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  I'm Caitlin McCabe for The Wall Street Journal, and here's the AM edition of What's News,

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  the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

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  We start today with exclusive news out of the White House,

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  where the Trump administration is zeroing in on colleges once again.

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  Yesterday, the administration sent letters to nine universities, including Vanderbilt, Dartmouth,

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  and the University of Pennsylvania, asking them to sign a compact that,

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  among other things, would ban the use of race or sex in admissions,

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  freeze tuition costs for five years, and cap the number of international students.

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  In exchange for signing,

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  universities will be granted preferential federal funding and quote, multiple positive benefits.

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  It's the latest move by Trump to crack down on what he considers anti-Semitism and progressive ideas within American colleges.

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