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Keep the umbrella handy today.

Expect a wet start to the workweek with rain continuing for most of the day.

 Highs: Low 50s
Lows: Low 40
Rain throughout day

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1. Education secretary says Columbia University's changes put it on track to recover funding

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Columbia University is “on the right track” toward recovering federal funding after the elite New York City university agreed to implement a host of policy changes demanded by the Trump administration.

Appearing on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday, McMahon described “great conversations” with Columbia's interim president, Katrina Armstrong..

2. Schumer says he won't step down as Senate Democratic leader despite government funding uproar

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says he won't resign his post, despite pressure from some in his party after he voted to move forward with a Republican spending bill that avoided a government shutdown.

“Look, I’m not stepping down,” Schumer said in an interview with NBC's “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday. The New York senator said he knew voting for the bill backed by Republican President Donald Trump would spark “a lot of controversy."

3. Pitino, St. John's fall to Calipari's Arkansas 75-66

John Calipari is heading to the Sweet 16 for the 16th time, and this one could be the sweetest of all.

Calipari’s Arkansas Razorbacks beat longtime nemesis Rick Pitino and No. 2 seed St. John’s 75-66 on Saturday, sending their itinerant coach to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament with his fourth school.

Around the Nation

1. The Palestinian death toll in Gaza's war passes 50,000 as Israel expands new airstrikes

2. Second lady Usha Vance will visit Greenland as Trump talks up U.S. takeover

3. One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen remembers struggle for recognition amid Trump's DEI purge

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