Kathambari Ramkumar

The university cited a July 2025 Department of Justice memo as motivation to cut funding. However, memos are not federal law. Groups for Asian American, Black, Latino and queer students were all targeted.

The Trump administration is demanding additional student enrollment data from federally funded universities to ensure they're no longer using affirmative action methods in their admissions processes. But a rushed deadline and lack of staffing has led to problems.

Missouri state law promises $100 a day for each day of life lost to prison on a wrongful conviction. For Sandra Hemme, who was first convicted in 1981, that’s roughly $1.6 million — which some critics say is too little for more than four decades behind bars.