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Less than 24 hours earlier, the Trump administration had said it would block current and future international students from attending the university.
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The Trump administration is relying on an obscure bureaucratic lever to stop the school, the latest in a series of aggressive moves.
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The university has previously been the target of more $400 million in federal funding cuts.
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Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California provided temporary relief to some international students while a legal battle continues.
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U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White said the Trump administration "acted arbitrarily and capriciously" in efforts to terminate foreign students' visas and that nationwide relief was appropriate.
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President Donald Trump staged an extraordinary confrontation in the Oval Office on Wednesday, repeating his false claims about a "white genocide" taking place in South Africa during a meeting with the country's president, Cyril Ramaphosa. At one point, Trump had the lights dimmed and ordered video clips played showing people calling for violence against white farmers in South Africa. The ambush was the latest in the administration's campaign to paint the South African government as racist against Afrikaners, the white minority that ruled the country during apartheid.
South African political economist Lebohang Pheko describes the Oval Office meeting as an "act of aggression" intended to shore up Trump's racist base. Trump "seems to have a great appetite for these spurious white supremacist ideologies [because] they mirror his own extremely skewed worldview," says Pheko.
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Over two dozen disability rights activists were arrested on Capitol Hill last week when they protested the Trump-backed Republican budget bill and its cuts to Medicaid, affordable housing and more. "We're putting our bodies on the line [because] our bodies are on the line," says Julie Farrar, an activist with ADAPT, which organized the protest. "It is blood on the hands of the GOP and the president and the administration, that they want this big, beautiful bill for billionaires that will kill poor people [and] disabled people."
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