Because the Islamic calendar follows a lunar cycle, with months lasting 29 or 30 days, the Hajj shifts 10 to 12 days earlier each year in the Gregorian calendar. Notably, this year marks the last time for the next 16 years that the Hajj will fall during Mecca’s peak summer heat.
sprang up in several US universities, including Columbia, Yale, New York University (NYU) and Harvard.On January 29, Trump signed an executive order titled “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism”, ordering executive department heads to submit a report on all criminal and civil authorities and actions available for fighting anti-Semitism.
A day after he signed this order, Trump was quoted in a White House fact sheet, saying: “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”Trump has since frozen federal funding to several universities, including Columbia and Harvard.With that funding at risk, universities are even more reliant on their endowment funds to sustain the research they conduct.
However, endowments are subject to restrictions and donors decide how most of the endowment is spent. In Harvard’s case, donors decide where 70 percent of the annual endowment distribution is spent.On May 22, the Trump administration revoked
Harvard’s certification
to enrol any new foreign students. This move has been“We’re here today to celebrate a blockbuster agreement that will ensure this storied American company stays an American company,” Trump said at the outset of his speech.
But the merger between Nippon Steel and US Steel had been controversial, and it was largely opposed by labour unions.Upon returning to the White House in January, Trump initially said he would block the acquisition, mirroring a similar position taken by his predecessor, former US President Joe Biden.
However, he has sincehis stance and backed the deal. Last week, he announced an agreement that he said would grant Nippon only “partial ownership” over US Steel.