US Freezes Funding for Cornell and Northwestern Universities in Latest Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Activism

Washington (Quds News Network)- The Trump administration has reportedly frozen more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell University and $790 million for Northwestern University while investigating both schools over pro-Palestinian campus protests.

A U.S. official told Reuters on Tuesday that the funding being paused includes mostly grants and contracts with the federal departments of health, education, agriculture and defense.

The administration of the U.S. President Donald Trump…