The administration of US President Donald Trump has canceled grants and contracts worth $400 million for Columbia University in New York due to "inaction regarding persistent harassment of Jewish students", Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
Columbia University is considered the center of protests in higher education institutions, where demonstrators are demanding an end to US support for Israel due to civilian casualties and the humanitarian crisis caused by the Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip.
There are accusations of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in the protests and counter-protests. Columbia University has previously said it is making efforts to address anti-Semitism.
"Canceling taxpayer funding is our strongest signal yet that the federal government will not support an educational institution that does not protect its Jewish students," said Leo Tarell, who heads the Justice Department's task force on combating anti-Semitism.
Details have not yet been provided on which grants and contracts will be canceled.
The US Department of Justice has filed a new lawsuit demanding that technology giant Google give up ownership of the Chrome browser, the Washington Post reported.
According to it, the Justice Department has requested that the browser be sold and that contracts with other companies regarding the use of the technology giant's search engine in their products be prohibited. The US government is seeking to strip Google of its monopoly status, which it says prevents potential competitors from "controlling a significant share of Internet search".
Google is no longer required to sell stakes in startups. As the newspaper specifies, the Justice Department considers Anthropic AI's argument that small businesses need finance from the tech giant to increase competitiveness in the AI technology market to be weighty.
In November 2024, the US Justice Department already turned to the courts with similar requests.