By Susan Svrluga, Carolyn Y. Johnson · The Washington Post (c) 2025 In a scene that is becoming familiar, two powerful universities were rocked this week by rumors that the Trump administration would pull hundreds of millions in funding, with little to do but wait to learn the details. On Tuesday afternoon, an internal National Institutes of Healthemail reviewed […]
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