US Supreme Court allows cuts in NIH diversity research grants
Friday, 22 August 2025 () Washington (AFP) Aug 21, 2025
A divided US Supreme Court gave the Trump administration the green light on Thursday to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants linked to diversity initiatives. A federal judge in Massachusetts had blocked the planned cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants in June, saying they amounted to racial discrimination and LGBTQ prejudice. The Trump administrati
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