🗞️Antisemitism on campus

...also digital assets summit and WWII bomb discovered

March 07, 2025

March 7th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

U.S. cancels $400 million in grants, contracts to Columbia University over Gaza protests

Columbia was at the center of college protests in which demonstrators demanded an end to U.S. support for Israel due to civilian deaths and humanitarian crisis.

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/03/07/us-cancels-400-million-in-grants-contracts-to-columbia-university-over-gaza-protests.html

  • The Trump administration is pulling $400 million from Columbia University, canceling grants and contracts because of what they said was a failure from the school to combat antisemitism on campus

  • The White House hosted the first digital assets summit today…for all the details click here 

  • Daylight saving time begins on Sunday, March 9th and that means for people in the U.S. except for Hawaii and most of Arizona, the clocks will spring forward one hour

  • The State Department has revoked the visa of a student who participated in protesting in favor of Hamas, the State Department is using Artificial Intelligence to find and review the social media accounts of foreign students in an effort to cancel their visas if they appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups

  • President Trump said today on social media that he is "strongly considering large scale banking sanctions, sanctions, and tariffs on Russia until a cease fire is reached.", for more on this story click here

  • A federal judge has given the Trump administration until Monday at 6pm to pay at least some of the nearly $2 billion owed to partners of the U.S. Agency for International Development and other foreign aid for previously completed projects

  • Nasdaq, the second largest stock exchange in the U.S., said it plans to introduce 24-hour trading by the second half of 2026

  • 21.3% of homeowners have a mortgage rate below 3%, down from a record 24.6% in Q1 2022 and the lowest share since Q2 2021, per Redfin

  • Hewlett Packard has announced it will fire about 2500 employees, which is 5% of its global workforce, in order to cut costs

  • The U.S economy added 151,000 jobs in February, below expectations of 160,000 and unemployment rate rose to 4.1%, above expectations of 4.0%

  • DOW up .52% / S&P up .55%

  • An unexploded bomb dating back to World War II was discovered near train tracks in Paris, this halted Eurostar trains for the day so the bomb could to be defused

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