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Trump administration freezes over $500 million in UCLA research funding, demanding a $1.2-billion settlement, restrictions on foreign students, and the release of private data.

Letter writers call the demands “extortion” and violations of academic freedom that could harm medical research and patient care.

Community members urge UCLA to resist, noting a federal court ruling that rejected similar demands at Harvard.

To the editor : California knows fault lines. They run beneath us, unseen until pressure builds and rupture comes. Today, UCLA finds itself on one — facing a political earthquake that could shake the state.

The federal government has frozen more than half a billion dol

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