Trump news at a glance: Lutnick threatens Harvard patents; former Fox commentator bound for UN | Trump administration

The Trump administration threatens Harvard’s federal funding and patents

In his letter to Harvard, Lutnick also declared that the trade department had started a process of “march” under the federal bay bay law which could allow the government to appropriate patents or grant licenses.

On July 1, 2024, Harvard held more than 5,800 patents and had more than 900 technological licenses with more than 650 industry partners, according to the Harvard Office of Technology Development.

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Tammy Bruce has appointed assistant ambassador to the UN for us

Donald Trump said on Saturday that he had appointed the former Fox News commentator Tammy Bruce, as the next US deputy representative of the United Nations.

Bruce has been chief spokesperson for the State Department since Trump took office this year. Trump said Bruce, who had no preliminary experience in foreign policy before becoming a spokesperson in January, “will represent our country brilliantly at the United Nations.”

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The IRS commissioner would have withdrawn the dispute from immigration policy

The referral of the Internal Internal Service Commissioner (IRS), Billy, long after only two months, came after the federal tax collection agency said that it could not disclose information on taxpayers suspected of being illegally in the United States, he was reported on Saturday.

The Washington Post reported that the Ministry of Internal Security had sent a list of 40,000 names to the IRS that it suspected of being illegally in the country. DHS asked the tax service to cross -check confidential data from taxpayers to check their addresses.

The IRS would have replied that it had been able to verify less than 3% of the names on the DHS list, but refused additional requests for information, citing the rights to the confidentiality of taxpayers.

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How did we get all this Gerrymandering? A brief history

The extreme gop Gerrymanders have redone American policy in the past 15 years. They locked the Republicans in power in the legislatures of states nationwide, even in purple states when the Democratic candidates won more votes. They delivered a reliable and lasting advantage to the GOP in the race for Congress.

How did we get here? How did the Gerrymandered lines, rather than the voters, won the power to determine the winners and the losers?

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Pete Hegseth rests a video that says that women should not be allowed to vote

The American Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, recently shared a video in which several pastors say that women should no longer be authorized to vote, which has prompted a progressive evangelical organization to express his concern.

Hegseth republished a CNN report of almost seven minutes on X Thursday which focuses on Pastor Doug Wilson, a Christian nationalist. In the segment, he raises the idea that women did not vote.

Doug Pagitt, pastor and executive director of the progressive evangelical organization votes Common Good, said that video ideas were views that “the little fringes of Christians keep” and said that he was “very disturbing” that Hegseth would amplify them.

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The figure of the FDA under fire returns only a few days after its departure

Vinay Prasad returns to its role supervising the vaccine, gene therapy and the regulation of blood products at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just over a week after leaving the agency.

Two days before Prasad moved last month, Laura Loomer, an far -right influencer and the theorist of the conspiracy, had published an audio published in an erroneous way to suggest that Prasad had admitted to having stuck pins in a Voodoo doll of Trump, when the complete audio indicated that he was talking about the kind of thing that a Voodoo doll would do.

Prasad is an oncologist who was a fierce critic of COVID-19 American mask vaccines and mandates.

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What happened to others today:

• A man of Georgia who opened fire on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, killing a police officer, had blamed a covid-19 vaccine for having depressed it And suicidal, said a law enforcement manager.

• Documents posted recently in the case of bankruptcy of New Orleans of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese Give more clarity on how complaints will be distributed to survivors of the mistreatment of the clergy if a proposed settlement is approved.