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 Newsmax: Harvard University is willing to meet the Trump administration's demand to shell out up to $500 million to resolve its ongoing dispute, a sum more than twice as much as Columbia University paid last week, The New York Times reported Monday. Columbia agreed to pay $221 million to resolve its dispute with the Trump administration, with $200 million paid to the Treasury until the White House decides how to spend it, according to the report. Harvard, however, is balking at paying hundreds of millions directly to the federal government, according to the report. Talks are ongoing between the Trump administration and the Ivy League school. President Donald Trump has demanded that Harvard pay more than Columbia over on-campus antisemitism that he has assailed the university for allowing to persist for more than a year-and-half, its failure to protect Jewish students, and its ongoing diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. "The Trump administration's proposition is s...

 PJ Media: The Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision today that the lower court must reconsider the reverse-discrimination case of an Ohio woman who claims she was fired because she is straight.  Petitioner Marlean Ames was hired by the Ohio Department of Youth Services in 2004 and worked in various roles in the agency. In 2018, her boss, who is gay, conducted a performance evaluation and found that her work met or exceeded expectations in all categories. In 2019, she applied for a new position within the agency, but was passed over for another candidate—a lesbian. Then it got worse. The agency not only demoted Ames from her administrative position and reduced her pay, but also replaced her with a gay man.  She sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, claiming she was discriminated against due to her sexual orientation.  The 6th Circuit Court denied her relief in  Ames v. Ohio Dept. of Youth Services.   Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog explained :...

  Blaze: ... On Thursday, Noem sent a letter to Harvard informing the school that it had lost its certification for the Student and Exchange Visitor Program . This came after Harvard repeatedly ignored federal requests to disclose statistics related to anti-Semitic activity on campus . According to the letter, Harvard fosters a hostile environment for Jewish students, tolerates pro-Hamas sympathies, and sustains racially discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. Harvard is now learning the lesson that Christian colleges grasped nearly half a century ago: Government money comes with government strings. But why did it take Harvard so long to recognize this? The answer is disarmingly simple — until now, those strings were always in harmony with Harvard’s ideological tune. Federal dollars came bundled with leftist priorities, and thus the elite saw no need to question them. Christian colleges, in contrast, often declined the money to preserve their mission of faithfuln...

 Trending Politics: CBS has reached a confidential settlement in a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by Brian Beneker, a former script coordinator on the network’s drama SEAL Team, who alleged he was repeatedly passed over for promotions because he is a white, heterosexual male. The lawsuit, backed by America First Legal (AFL), was filed in early 2024 and accused CBS and its parent company, Paramount Global, of violating federal civil rights laws by implementing hiring practices that prioritized race, gender, and sexual orientation over merit. Beneker worked on SEAL Team since 2017 and had written freelance episodes across multiple seasons, but claimed he was blocked from being promoted to a staff writer role solely because he didn’t meet the network’s diversity criteria. According to the suit, Beneker was told by the show runner that he didn’t “check any diversity boxes.” The comment was tied to CBS’s publicly stated goals at the time. In 2020, then-CEO George Cheeks announced ...