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News Wrap: White House terminates another $450 million in grants to Harvard

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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41K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In our news wrap Tuesday, the Trump administration is terminating another $450 million in grants to Harvard, inflation slowed for the third straight month even as some of Trump's tariffs took effect, the FAA is defending its decision to move control of Newark's airspace to Philadelphia and Zelenskyy is putting pressure on Putin to join him for ceasefire talks in Turkey. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

We start today's other headlines with news that the Trump administration is terminating another $450 million in grants to Harvard University.

0:08.4

That's on top of $2.2 billion in federal funding it froze last month over accusations of anti-Semitism on campus.

0:16.6

A White House task force wrote today that Harvard, quote, has become a breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination.

0:23.2

Harvard disputes those claims.

0:25.2

On Monday, the school's president wrote that Harvard is nonpartisan and that federal sanctions are an unlawful attempt to control fundamental aspects of our university's operations.

0:36.0

Inflation slowed for the third straight month in April,

0:38.9

even as some of President Trump's tariffs took effect. Consumer prices rose by 2.3% when compared to a

0:45.4

year ago, but that is the smallest increase in more than four years, thanks in part to lower

0:50.4

grocery prices. Egg prices, for instance, fell by nearly 13 percent, the biggest drop in decades.

0:56.9

The White House says that today's numbers are proof that Americans are experiencing real economic

1:02.3

relief.

1:03.1

But many economists warn that the impact of President Trump's tariffs will become more clear

1:08.3

in the next few months.

1:10.0

The FAA is defending its decision to move

1:12.5

control of Newark's airspace to Philadelphia. In a statement today, the FAA said that persistent

1:18.2

low staffing levels and low training success rates were contributing factors to moving control

1:24.3

of Newark airspace last year. A series of technical problems related to the Philadelphia facility

1:30.5

have led to dozens of flight delays and cancellations at Newark in recent days,

1:35.2

and the air traffic controller shortages are also a problem in Philadelphia,

1:39.6

but the New York Times reporting that only three people were on duty yesterday evening

1:43.9

when there should

1:44.8

have been 14.

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