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Visa delays. Budget cuts. Fewer students. DePaul is the latest U.S. university hit hard by Trump administration policies reshaping higher ed. www.reuters.com/world/us/few...
Fewer foreign students, fewer dollars: U.S. colleges feel the pinch
DePaul University has told faculty it will immediately reduce spending following a 30% decline in international enrollment this fall. The move is the latest by U.S. colleges to cope with the disruptive education and immigration policies of President Donald Trump.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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There's no bigger priority for JFK Jr than autism, and yet NIH funding for autism research is down 26% since the beginning of the year.

Why? Research on diverse populations has been defunded in the anti-DEI and 'gender ideology' purge.

Reuters exclusive
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Exclusive: Trump administration cut autism-related research by 26% so far in 2025
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has vowed to address rising U.S. autism rates as a top health priority for the Trump administration .
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May 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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🚨 NEWS: Large amounts of food in limbo. US factories making therapeutic nutrition for starving children shuttered. US policymakers blind on developing food crises. Food in hot Sudan warehouses as famine sweeps the country. The global famine response system upended.

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Halt in U.S. aid cripples global efforts to relieve hunger
The Trump administration’s effort to slash and reshape American foreign aid is crippling the intricate global system that aims to prevent and respond to famine.
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February 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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You can read much of this year’s comprehensive coverage on the growing hunger crisis by @reuters here: www.reuters.com/investigates...
The Starving World
The world’s system for detecting and alleviating famine is struggling to cope as conflicts wrack developing nations, from Sudan and Ethiopia to Gaza and Myanmar. Reuters reveals the causes of the global hunger-relief crisis and explores solutions in a series of reports.
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December 24, 2024 at 4:06 PM
The latest from the data team at Reuters...
People are starving to death in Sudan but no one knows how many. Enter @mcneill.bsky.social and @raytroncoso.bsky.social of Reuters. They used radar and optical sensor data from satellites to count new graves at Sudan's Zamzam camp for people displaced by war.

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How Reuters counted the dead in famine-stricken Sudan
No one knows how many people have died from the catastrophic hunger sweeping Sudan. But graves, counted from the sky, offer a clue to the devastation.
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December 5, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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A Reuters deep dive on how the world failed to prevent an ongoing famine in Sudan.
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The world’s hunger watchdog warned of catastrophe in Sudan. Famine struck anyway.
Here’s how the world’s hunger monitoring-and-response system is supposed to work – and why it’s not achieving its mission.
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December 5, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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In three countries now suffering severe food crises, Reuters found that governments or rebels have blocked or falsified the flow of data to the world’s primary hunger monitor or have tried to suppress its findings reut.rs/3ODhXTJ 1/5
December 4, 2024 at 12:13 PM