The American Diabetes Association said that eliminating funding for the program “means the loss of a decade’s worth of important findings and progress toward diabetes prevention and understanding Alzheimer’s disease and associated dementia in diabetes.”
The Trump administration’s move to terminate the legal immigration status of hundreds of international students is leaving Illinois educators scrambling to find ways to help.
The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR.
Illinois hosts one of the largest international student populations in the nation, ranking fifth.
In a statement, Northwestern spokesperson Jon Yates said the school was “informed by members of the media that the federal government plans to freeze a significant portion of our federal funding. The university has not received any official notification from the federal government.”
A U of I spokesperson said that multiple foreign students on campus have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration but declined to share the number of students who were impacted.
National Weather Service offices across the country are suspending or reducing weather balloon flights due to low staffing. Meteorologists say the loss of data could lead to forecasting challenges and less accurate long-term outlooks.
Chicago gynecologist Nicole Williams was just starting her work in Uganda investigating maternal health outcomes when the Trump Administration pulled the plug.
Since President Trump announced the sweeping baseline and “reciprocal” tariffs, Google searches for the term “recession” have surged and economists at prominent investment banks have pointed to increased odds of a recession occurring.
Attempts to eliminate junk food from SNAP coverage could gain traction under Trump’s presidency.
The judge ordered the government to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S. by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, April 7. She said keeping him in El Salvador constitutes irreparable harm.
Chancellor Robert Jones and Provost John Coleman announced by email on Thursday that the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign will not strike sensitive words or phrases from websites under pressure from the federal government.
Sen. Cory Booker spent a full day standing on the Senate floor, delivering an impassioned speech in protest of the Trump administration’s policies.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development has provided billions of dollars each year to small towns, farmers and businesses.
The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public institutions like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural region it serves.