Harvard funding freeze, IRS job cuts, business with Russia & more

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The Trump administration has announced it’s freezing billions of dollars in funding for Harvard University. IRS workers will soon find out if they’ll be laid off, during their busiest time of year. US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff says doing business with Russia could be part of an “emerging” deal to end the war in Ukraine. A former sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced for killing a man who called 911 for help. Plus, a new antibiotic to treat a common STI has been approved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:05.0	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:11.0	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:13.0	Daddy!
0:14.0	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.2	Now that's term time working.
0:24.6	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.9	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.1	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:29.9	Conditions apply.
0:32.5	From CNN.
0:38.3	I'm Charlie Drever with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, April 15th. The White House has announced a $2 billion funding freeze for Harvard University,
0:45.3	after it rejected demands to change school policy.
0:48.3	The Trump administration has threatened multiple colleges with funding cuts if changes weren't made.
0:55.0	But this appears to mark the first time an elite university has refused.
0:59.0	Here's Harvard Law Professor Andrew Manuel Crespo speaking to CNN.
1:04.0	It's a transparent effort to change what is taught, what we say in our classrooms,
1:09.0	what we teach our students, to make sure that
1:11.2	the only things that are actually set on university campuses are things that the Trump administration
1:14.6	wants to hear and wants to be said.
1:17.5	A federal task force says it's working to combat anti-Semitism on college campuses in response
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