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In related US News: Trump intervention at Columbia alarms defenders of academic freedom.

Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under "academic receivership for a minimum of five years." The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of antisemitism

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