By Betsy Klein, CNN

(CNN) — The Trump administration slapped a new multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Harvard University on Friday, alleging that the school is in violation of a civil rights law and has failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students from discrimination.

It is asking a federal judge to require the school to pay back millions in grant payments and halt more than $2.6 billion in existing grants.

The complaint marks the latest effort by President Donald Trump and his team to ratchet up pressure on the Ivy League school as high-level talks toward a settlement have failed to produce a resolution.

After months of fits and starts, negotiations had been heating up in early February – until The New York Times reported that the White House had dropped demands for a financial payment from the university, citing multiple unnamed sources. Trump subsequently doubled down on his demands, saying that his administration was “now seeking One Billion Dollars in damages.”

Negotiators “were close – and they ghosted,” an administration official told CNN on Friday, saying that there has been “no communication” and that Harvard has been “dragging their feet.”

CNN has reached out to Harvard for comment.

Allegations of a ‘hostile’ environment for Jewish students

Friday’s lawsuit alleges that Harvard is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin in programs or activities receiving federal funding, due to what the Trump administration describes as “a hostile educational environment” for Israeli and Jewish students.

The school has been “deliberately indifferent,” the lawsuit alleges, pointing to examples including protests in classrooms and libraries and students who were “spit on in the face for wearing a yarmulke, stalked on campus, and jeered by peers with calls of ‘Heil Hitler,” among others, that took place between the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel until present day.

“Harvard University has failed to protect its Jewish students from harassment and has allowed discrimination to wreak havoc on its campus,” White House spokesperson Liz Huston told CNN in a statement.

Harvard has previously said that the school is “far from indifferent” when it comes to addressing antisemitism on campus.

“Antisemitism is a serious problem and no matter the context, it is unacceptable. Harvard has taken substantive, proactive steps to address the root causes of antisemitism in its community,” the university’s communications director Jason Newton said in a statement after a Trump investigation concluded last year that the school was in “violent violation” of the Civil Rights Act.

The administration is asking the judge to declare Harvard in breach of its contract with the federal government because it is in violation of the law, which would mean the school would not receive additional grant payments. It has also requested that the court “rescind and award the United States restitution of all grant payments made to Harvard during the time of H

Por Erick E. Beltran, CNN en Español

Shakira anunció una residencia de conciertos en Madrid para septiembre próximo.

La cantante colombiana compartió que tiene programado presentarse los días 25, 26 y 27 de ese mes en la capital española, pero se espera que el número de fechas pueda incrementarse.

Los recitales forman parte de su actual gira “Las mujeres ya no lloran” que ha llevado a la superestrella de la música a visitar, durante el último año, diversas ciudades de Latinoamérica, Estados Unidos y Canadá.

El recinto en donde se llevarán a cabo estas presentaciones lleva por nombre Estadio Shakira. Se trata de un espacio para conciertos temporal que tendrá capacidad para más de 50.000 personas y que estará ubicado en el Iberdrola Music de Madrid. Hace unos días la cantante contó en un adelanto de una entrevista con Henár Álvarez para la cadena RTVE que la empresa de entretenimiento Live Nation está a cargo de la construcción del centro de espectáculos con una producción que “no se ha visto antes” en España.

Para conseguir entradas a los conciertos que realizará Shakira en España es necesario registrarse en la página de Ticketmaster del país europeo, lo que permitirá tener acceso a la preventa que se realizará el próximo martes 24 de marzo. El miércoles 25 y el jueves 26 se realizarán dos preventas por parte de Live Nation y será recién el viernes 27 cuando se habilite la venta general para estos conciertos.

La colombiana también tiene programadas otras presentaciones como parte de su gira “Las mujeres ya no lloran” que se llevarán a cabo en Medio Oriente, India y Egipto entre marzo y abril, según su calendario oficial. El pasado 1 de marzo, Shakira ofreció un concierto gratuito en el Zócalo de la Ciudad de México que, de acuerdo con cifras oficiales, reunió a más de 400.000 personas. Además, el próximo 2 de mayo hará otra presentación gratuita en la playa de Copacabana, en Río de Janeiro, Brasil.

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By Rebekah Riess, CNN

(CNN) — Chuck Norris, veteran, martial arts world champion, action hero and early 2000s Internet meme inspiration, whose rugged demeanor was immortalized on hit show “Walker, Texas Ranger,” has died. He was 86.

“It is with heavy hearts that our family shares the sudden passing of our beloved Chuck Norris yesterday morning,” read a message credited to the Norris family posted to Instagram and Facebook Friday morning. “While we would like to keep the circumstances private, please know that he was surrounded by his family and was at peace.”

Norris had an unidentified medical emergency in Hawaii on Thursday, according to news reports. The family thanked fans for their prayers during his hospitalization.

“He lived his life with faith, purpose, and an unwavering commitment to the people he loved,” the post read. “Through his work, discipline, and kindness, he inspired millions around the world and left a lasting impact on so many lives.”

CNN has reached out to representatives for the actor for comment.

Beginnings

The ultimate tough guy, Norris’ first memorable acting role was as Bruce Lee’s formidable opponent in the 1972 film “The Way of the Dragon,” before he landed his first leading role five years later as a truck driver searching for his missing brother in “Breaker! Breaker!”

Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, Norris made a name for himself as a rugged action hero in movies like “Missing in Action” and “Delta Force,” marking his place in pop culture with an always-stoic countenance and lines like, “My kind of trouble doesn’t take vacations” (from 1983’s “Lone Wolf McQuade”).

With his film career cooling off in the ’90s, Norris made the switch to television. He won new fans with his long-running series “Walker, Texas Ranger,” which ran from 1993 to 2001.

In the show, Norris played Cordell Walker, a veteran Texas Ranger who fights crime in Dallas and throughout the Lone Star State. Norris was nominated for a TV Guide Award as favorite actor in a drama in 1999.

Mastering the martial arts

Carlos Ray “Chuck” Norris was born in Ryan, Oklahoma, to Irish American and Cherokee Native American parents. Following his parents’ divorce, Norris, his mother and two younger brothers relocated to Prairie Village, Kansas, and then to Torrance, California, according to his Walk of Fame profile.

Norris became acquainted with the world of martial arts while stationed in Korea with the US Airforce in the late 1950s, according to the military. “I started training over there, and then I came back and got out of the service and started teaching. And to get students in my school, I became a karate fighter,” Norris once told Mike Douglas on CNN’s “People Now.”

He even founded his own style of karate, the Chuck Norris SystemRead more

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