In a ruling issued Monday, the judge called the government’s directives “arbitrary and capricious” and ordered funding for some of the NIH grants, including many profiled by ProPublica in recent months,

The National Institutes of Health must restore hundreds of recently canceled research grants focused on race, gender and sexual orientation, a federal judge ordered June 16. The federal government announced in February it would terminate NIH grants related to diversity,

A federal judge on Monday ruled that the Trump administration’s cancelling of federal health grants over their connections to “gender ideology” and “diversity, equity, and

"This represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America's LGBTQ community," said the judge, an appointee of Republican former President Ronald Reagan.

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is implementing a hiring freeze and pausing annual pay increases due to the uncertainty of funding sources, the school confirmed.