(CNSNews.com) – President Donald Trump today signed a memorandum reinstating President Ronald Reagan's Mexico City policy, which prohibits the U.S. Agency for International Development from giving any U.S. tax dollars to non-governmental institutions that refuse to certify in writing that they will neither perform nor promote abortions.
Trump signed the memorandum in a ceremony in the Oval Office at the same time he signed memoranda ordering a freeze on the hiring of federal government employees—except for the military—and removing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
BOSTON — Days after Republican Donald Trump was sworn-in as president, about 30 student activists at Boston University walked out of class to rally against the incoming administration's approach to climate change and to convince university trustees to divest all fossil fuel holdings from the school's $1.6 billion endowment.
"This is a national day of action, there are thousands of students walking out all over the country in an active resistance to demand divestment from their administrations," sophomore Masha Vernik, secretary of the activist group Divest BU, told students via a megaphone outside of the George Sherman Union student center. "As time goes on I know that this resistance might become a little more difficult, as a result of increased oppression from above or increased police militarization, but we can't stop — we have to keep going."
