Reproductive health provider Planned Parenthood said on Monday the Trump administration would cut federal family planning funding as of Tuesday, affecting birth control, cancer screenings and other services for low-income people.
Planned Parenthood said that nine of its affiliates received notice that funding would be withheld under a program known as Title X, which has supported healthcare services for the poor since 1970. The Wall Street Journal reported last week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services planned an immediate freeze of $27.5 million in family planning grants for groups including Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood says more than 300 health centers are in the Title X network and Title X-funded centers received more than 1.5 million visits in 2023. It not say how much funding would be halted by the Trump administration.
The White House and HHS did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. An HHS spokesperson said last week the department was reviewing grant recipients to ensure compliance with President Donald Trump's executive orders.
Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, predicted that cancers would go undetected, access to birth control would be severely reduced, and sexually-transmitted infections would increase as a result.
"President Trump and Elon Musk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping health care access from people nationwide, and not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause," McGill Johnson said in a statement.
SpaceX launched the first human spaceflight directly over Earth's polar regions on Monday -- a days-long, privately funded orbital mission involving four astronauts.
Named "Fram2" after the famed Norwegian ship built in the 19th century for Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, the mission will feature a range of experiments including taking the first X-ray in space and growing mushrooms in microgravity.
It's hoped that the research will support future long-duration space travel to Mars.
The crew launched aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket at 9:46 pm Monday (0146 GMT Tuesday) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Cheers rang out in the control room as the powerful rocket roared upward, lighting up the night sky with a long, orange plume of flame as the craft began its journey toward Earth's North and South Poles.
"With the same pioneering spirit as early polar explorers, we aim to bring back new data and knowledge to advance the long-term goals of space exploration," mission commander Chun Wang said before the launch.
Wang, a Chinese-born Maltese adventurer and co-founder of crypto companies f2pool and skatefish, selected the rest of the crew: vehicle commander Jannicke Mikkelsen, a Norwegian film director; mission pilot Rabea Rogge, a robotics researcher from Germany; and mission specialist and medical officer Eric Philips, an Australian polar explorer.
The team trained for eight months in preparation for the approximately four-day trip, including a wilderness expedition in Alaska to simulate living in close quarters under harsh conditions.
Upon returning to Earth, the crew will attempt to exit the spacecraft without additional medical support -- part of a study to help researchers understand how well astronauts can perform basic tasks after spaceflight.
Except for the Apollo lunar missions, Earth's polar regions have remained out of view for astronauts, including those aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Even on Apollo, they did not fly directly over the Earth's poles.
SpaceX has carried out five private astronaut missions to date -- three in collaboration with Axiom Space to the ISS, and two free-flying in Earth orbit.
The first of these was Inspiration4 in 2021, followed by Polaris Dawn, which featured the first spacewalk conducted by private astronauts.
Both free-flying missions were chartered by e-payments billionaire Jared Isaacman, who has also been nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as the next NASA administrator.
Isaacman is also a close associate of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.\
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen is set to meet U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week in the first high-level talks since President Donald Trump's re-election and his vow to "take control" of Greenland, the Financial Times said.
The prospect of such talks comes amid simmering tension between the two nations over U.S. interest in taking control of Greenland, the Arctic island controlled by Denmark since 1721.
The meeting is planned for the sidelines of a gathering of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels set to begin on Thursday, the paper said on Tuesday, citing two officials briefed on the preparations.
However, the officials warned the event could be cancelled because of tense relations between Copenhagen and Washington, it added.
The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is visiting Greenland from April 2 to 4 for talks with the new government of the semi-autonomous territory just days after a visit by U.S. Vice President JD Vance.
On his trip, Vance accused Denmark of not doing a good job of keeping the island safe and suggested the United States would better protect the strategically located island.
The Trump administration is reportedly pausing some $210 million in federal funding toPrinceton Universitywhile it investigates potential antisemitism on the campus of the Ivy League School.
“Princeton has perpetuated racist and antisemitic policies,” a Trump administration official told the Daily Caller on Monday.
The official noted that the decision to suspend the funds bound for the elite New Jersey school does not mean that the administration’s antisemitism probe has concluded, according to the outlet.
President Trump has ordered his antisemitism task force to investigate dozens of elite universities that receive federal funding.ALEXANDER DRAGO/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Princeton was one of 60 colleges and universities that the Department of Education’s civil rights arm warned earlier this month could have federal funding taken away over alleged antisemitic discrimination and harassment on campus.
The university, which has an endowment of more than $34 billion, received $456 million in funding from government grants and contracts last year, according to the school’s annual report.
The Anti-Defamation League gavePrinceton an “F” gradelast year for the way it handles antisemitism on campus.
The investigation into antisemitism at Garden State school dates back to the Biden administration, the Daily Caller reported.
The probe was launched in April of 2024 after Zachary Marschall, the editor-in-chief of the conservative website Campus Reform, filed a complaint with the DOE over Princeton’s alleged failure to respond to antisemitism on campus.
Marschall cited an Oct. 25, 2023, anti-Israel protest at the university – just weeks after the Hamas terrorist attack on the Jewish State – where he claimed chants of “Intifada” and “Brick by brick, wall by wall, apartheid has got to fall” were heard.
”The violent words of these protesters completely disregard the atrocities Hamas has already committed and promises to commit in the future against the people of Israel, including raping, murdering, and kidnapping civilians,” Marschall wrote in the complaint, according to Campus Reform.
The Department of Education and Princeton University did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The ADL gave Princeton University and “F” grade on how it responds to antisemitism last year.Aristide Economopoulos
President Trump’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, which includes the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services and the General Services Administration, previously froze about $400 million in federal funds from Columbia University over antisemitism concerns.
Earlier this month, Columbia University agreed to adhere to nine preconditions to gain back its federal funding.
The Trump administration is currently reviewing the changes as it weighs whether or not to give the New York Ivy League School back its money.
On Monday, the Trump administration announced that the antisemitism task force is also probing more than $8.7 billion worth of multi-year federal grant commitments with Harvard University.
That review will also extend to $255 million in contracts that Harvard has with the federal government, according to the DOE.
The Trump administration is using Title VI of the Civil Rights Act — which prohibits institutions of higher education from receiving federal money if they participate in or enable discrimination based on race, national origin, religion or other characteristics — to hold back the taxpayer-funded grants.
Deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement surged above 100,000 since President Trump returned to the White House in January — as he maintains his promise to boot illegal migrants, alleged gangbangers and suspected terrorists from the United States, The Post has learned.
ICE officials have made 113,000 arrests and carried out “north of” 100,000 deportations since Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, a Department of Homeland Security source told The Post Monday.
“He’s doing what he was voted in to do. Point blank!” an ICE source said.
ICE officials have made 113,000 arrests and carried out “north of” 100,000 deportations since Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.CBP
It wasn’t immediately clear how many detainees are convicted criminals, the status of their cases and their national origins — though sources believe the majority are being removed to Mexico.
Trump campaigned heavily on cracking down on illegal immigration, and on Day One, declared an emergency at the border, sent thousands of additional troops to the region, shut down the asylum system to illegal crossers and launched a mass deportation effort across the country.
ICE has since “maxed out”its detention space and is asking Congress to fund additional beds to support the Trump administration’s deportation campaign that yielded 32,000 arrests in its first 50 days.
Trump has also taken aggressive measures to quell transnational criminal organizations, such as invoking the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan gang members to a notorious El Salvadorian “hellhole” mega prison without a trial.
A graph illustrating the number of illegal border crossings from September 2024 to March 2025.Peter Lavigna/NY Post Design
Seventeen alleged Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangbangers were handed over to El Salvador in shackles Sunday night — despite the usage of that rarely used wartime act being blocked by a federal judge earlier this month.
A chart depicting US Border patrol nationwide encounters from 2022 to 2025.Jack Forbes / NY Post Design
“Illegal entries into the United States are no longer a backdoor way to getting status,” a source said.
Border agents barely saw 7,000 migrants enter illegally in March.
That’s down 94% from the 137,000 people who poured across the border in March last year under former President Joe Biden. It follows February crossings of roughly 8,300 illegal migrants, the lowest in at least 25 years.
