News Wrap: Cornell reaches $60M deal with Trump administration to restore funding
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | In the day's other headlines, Cornell University announced a $60 million deal with the Trump administration to restore federal funding and stop investigations into the school. |
| 0:11.0 | The Ivy League University will pay $30 million directly to the government and another $30 million toward research to support American farmers. |
| 0:19.6 | Earlier this year, the administration withheld |
| 0:21.7 | $250 million in federal research funding amid claims of civil rights violations. Cornell joins |
| 0:28.6 | a handful of other schools to make deals with the Trump administration, including Colombia, |
| 0:33.3 | Brown, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Virginia. |
| 0:47.3 | Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says his country has received an exemption from U.S. sanctions on Russian energy, though the White House has not commented. |
| 0:54.6 | Orban is a reliable advocate for Russia in the European Union, and his landlocked country relies heavily on Russian oil. |
| 0:59.1 | Orban announced the exemption after meeting with President Trump at the White House today. |
| 1:04.9 | The two men are longtime allies, and earlier today, Trump acknowledged the realities of Hungary's reliance on Russia. |
| 1:06.9 | It's very difficult for him to get the oil and gas from other areas. |
| 1:12.0 | As you know, they don't have the advantage of having sea. |
| 1:15.4 | It's a great country. |
| 1:16.2 | It's a big country, but they don't have sea. |
| 1:18.3 | They don't have the ports. |
| 1:19.9 | And so they have a difficult problem. |
| 1:23.2 | The White House meeting comes a day after a bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a resolution |
| 1:29.3 | to urge Hungary to stop using Russian oil and gas. |
| 1:33.3 | Sudan's ambassador to the U.S. says his government is studying a humanitarian truce |
| 1:38.3 | put forward by the U.S. and other countries aimed at ending the country's civil war. |
| 1:43.3 | The paramilitary group, known as the |
| 1:45.2 | RSF, agreed to the truce yesterday. But Ambassador Mohamed Abdelah Idris says the group is not |
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