By ERIC TUCKER and COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the University of Virginia is resigning his position under pressure from the Justice Department, which had pushed for his departure amid scrutiny of the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion practices, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.

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The departure of James Ryan, who had led the school since 2018, represents a dramatic escalation in the Trump administration’s effort to reshape higher education. Doing it at a public university marks a new frontier in a campaign that has almost exclusively targeted Ivy League schools. It also widens the rationale behind the government’s aggressive tactics, focusing on DEI rather than alleged tolerance of antisemitism.

Ryan had faced conservative criticism that he had failed to heed federal orders to eliminate DEI policies, and his removal was pushed by the Justice Department as a way to help resolve a department inquiry targeting the school, according to the person, who was not authorized to discuss the move by name and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.

The New York Times first reported on the resignation and the Justice Department’s insistence on it. The Justice Department declined to comment Friday.

Dawson Garcia, who led the Gophers’ men’s basketball team in scoring and rebounding for the past three seasons, has signed a free-agent deal with the Detroit Pistons and will play in the NBA 2K26 Summer League.

A 6-foot-11 forward from Savage who played high school basketball at Prior Lake, Garcia was a second-team all-Big Ten selection last season after averaging 19.2 points and 7.5 rebounds a game.

The 30-team NBA 2K26 Summer League is scheduled for July 10-20 in Las Vegas at UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center and Pavilion.

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A federal judge has upheld a ruling directing OpenAI to preserve logs and data slated for deletion after news outlets including the New York Daily News suing the technology giant accused the company of hiding evidence of copyright infringement.

The new ruling, issued Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court, denied the company’s objection to an earlier court order directing OpenAI to keep any data used to train its artificial intelligence bots — logs which plaintiffs say may contain details of widespread content piracy.

OpenAI executives have maintained that they are merely safeguarding users’ privacy by objecting to any data retention request or order.

But lawyers for the plaintiffs said the privacy argument is nothing more than a distraction.

“This is like a magician trying to misdirect the public’s attention,” said Steven Lieberman, a lawyer representing the News and several other media outlets.

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“That is absolutely false. The judge has made clear and plaintiffs have made clear that they don’t want to receive information that personally identifies the users of these conversations. If data is turned over, it will only be turned over anonymously. And OpenAI knows that. No one’s privacy it’s at risk.”

The publishers’ key argument at the core of their lawsuit is that the data that powers the company’s popular ChatGPT has included millions of copyrighted works from the news organizations.

The publications have argued that such content has been used without consent or payment — which translates to copyright infringement on a massive scale.

Various reports have placed the company’s value at $300 billion, making it one of the most valuable private companies in the world, thanks in part to its online chatbox, ChatGPT, which was released in 2022.

But when it comes to raw material — redistributed creative content — OpenAI took the cheap and easy way out, Lieberman said.

“They just stole it from the newspapers, from magazines and from book authors,” he said.

A representative from OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

OpenAI has argued that the vast amount of data used to train its artificial intelligence bots is protected by “fair use” rules. The doctrine applies to rules that allow some to use copyrighted work for purposes like criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching and research.

However, lawyers for the newspapers have argued that the fair use test involves transforming a copyrighted work into something new, and the new work cannot compete with the original in the same marketplace.

The court has rejected OpenAI’s position that the newspapers haven’t produced “a shred of evidence” that people are using ChatGPT or OpenAI’s API products to get news instead of paying for it.

The New York Times originally brought the suit in December 2023. The News, along with other newspapers in affiliated companies MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing, filed in April 2024.

The other outlets included The Mercury News, The Denver Post, The Orange County Register and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and Tribune Publishing’s Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel.

Minnesota United at New York Red Bulls

When: 6:30 p.m. Saturday
Where: Sports Illustrated Stadium, Harrison, N.J.
Stream: MLS Season Pass on Apple TV
Radio: KSTP-AM, 1500
Weather: 83 degrees, 40 percent chance of rain
Betting line: RBNY plus-115; draw plus-240; MNUFC plus-230

Form: With a 3-1 win over Houston on Wednesday, MNUFC (9-4-6, 33 points) kept pace with San Diego, the new top team in the Western Conference. New York (8-7-4, 28 points) played to a 1-1 draw with struggling Toronto midweek.

Recent matchups: Given the unbalanced schedules, Minnesota is 2-2-1 all-time against Red Bulls and hasn’t traveled to New Jersey since 2022. The two teams played to a 1-1 draw in St. Paul in March 2023.

Quote: Loons head coach Eric Ramsay has had last summer’s nine-game winless drought on his mind this June. Again, MNUFC is playing without a handful of key players away on international duty and was coming off a 4-2 defeat to San Diego on June 14.

“I would say (the Houston win is) one of the biggest results that we’ve had this year, because the stage of the season that we’re in, the absences that we’ve got, the, I suppose, scars of last summer and everything that goes with a really messy period in the MLS,” he said postgame. “I think for us to have won (Wednesday), to follow up the San Diego performance with that, was really big and I think it keeps us right in the race at the top.”

Update: The Loons have cleared two international roster spots for the summer transfer window, with Sang Bin Jeong and Joaquin Pereyra receiving U.S. Green Cards. Dutch rookie goalkeeper Wessel Speel’s impending first-team contract would bring the total to one for the club to use on new foreign players. They might be able to free up space with corresponding roster moves, such as outgoing loans of current players.

Absences: Four MNUFC starters are away for the Concacaf Gold Cup: Dayne St. Clair and Tani Oluwaseyi (Canada), Carlos Harvey (Panama) and Joseph Rosales (Honduras). Two backups are out injured: Morris Duggan (back) and Sam Shashoua (oblique).

Players to watch: Pereyra, the team leader with five primary assists, will play a bigger role Saturday after coming off the bench Wednesday. “We will obviously be very reliant on him in the sense that he will bring a real freshness and an energy that maybe some of the others will find hard to come by,” Ramsay said Friday.

On Red Bulls, it’s forward Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, who is tied for fifth in MLS with 10 goals this season, including four on penalty kicks. The 35-year-old German previously reached double-digit goals with Bayern Munich in 2022-23.

Scouting report: Red Bulls’ identity remains a team that will aggressively high press opponents. With a taxing game expected, the Loons held their training session to 40 minutes on Friday.

“We’ve got to make sure first and foremost we are prepared for that,” Ramsay said. “That we play the game in as shrewd a tactical way as possible, and as tight a way as possible, and trust that if we can keep the game tight we will create chances, we will score. But they are ultimately a team that wants to test your back line, playing in behind fairly often.”

Prediction: With absences, MNUFC doesn’t have quality depth to turn to for its second match in four days. That will show on the pitch, but not all is lost in a 1-1 draw.

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