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April 8, 2025, 7:21 p.m. ET The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell and $790 million for Northwestern amid civil rights investigations into both schools, two administration officials said. The funding pause involves mostly grants and contracts with the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Education and Health and Human Services, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the unannounced decision. The moves are the latest in a rapidly escalating campaign against the nation's elite universities that has resulted in...