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Columbia University interim president steps down

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The move by President Donald Trump’s administration to strip the university and its hospital of research funding, on the grounds that it hadn’t done enough to combat antisemitism or punish students wh...
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Columbia University's interim president has resigned her role just one week after the Ivy League university agreed to change several policies to satisfy demands from the Trump administration.
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Protests against Columbia University are breaking out after the school agreed to Trump administration's demands to change its policies to restore federal funding.

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