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PBS News Hour - Segments

News Wrap: Harvard announces review after antisemitism and Islamophobia reports

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

41K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In our news wrap Tuesday, Harvard announced it will review academic offerings and policies in response to internal reports about antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus, the Senate confirmed David Perdue as the U.S. ambassador to China and the Trump administration dismissed many of former president Biden's nominees to the board that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Today's other headlines start at Harvard University.

0:03.0

The school announced this afternoon that it will review academic offerings and admissions policies

0:08.0

in response to a pair of internal reports about anti-Semitism and Islamophobia on campus.

0:15.0

Harvard's president, Alan Garber, commissioned the reports following last spring's pro-Palestinian protests.

0:21.0

Garber wrote today that he wants to, quote,

0:23.0

ensure that Harvard University is a place where ideas are welcomed, entertained,

0:28.0

and contested in the spirit of seeking truth.

0:30.5

It comes as the university fights a legal battle with the Trump administration,

0:35.2

which froze billions of dollars of federal funding amid

0:38.0

accusations of anti-Semitism at campus protests.

0:41.2

Well, the lights are almost fully back on in Spain and Portugal after yesterday's massive

0:47.4

blackout, but it's still not clear what caused the outage. The Portuguese grid operator said

0:52.4

earlier today that all 6.4 million of its customers

0:55.8

had power back. In Spain, more than 99% of energy demand has been restored. Today, train

1:02.3

stations in Madrid were packed as stranded passengers tried to get home. Emergency workers in Spain

1:08.2

say nearly 35,000 people had to be rescued along railways and underground.

1:13.8

Speaking today, Spain's Prime Minister dismissed claims that the blackout was caused by a cyber attack

1:19.2

and said officials are investigating the cause.

1:24.7

The government of Spain is going to get to the bottom of this matter.

1:28.5

Reforms will be made and necessary measures will be taken to ensure this does not happen again.

1:34.0

And obviously, we will demand the relevant responsibilities from all private operators.

1:39.3

The blackout was one of Europe's most severe outages in recent memory.

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