The Latest: Education Department responds to ACLU letter

The Latest on a request to the Education Department to revoke a threat to cut grant funding to a Middle East studies program (all times local):
5:10 p.m.
The U.S. Education Department says its review of a Middle East studies program is not “anti-Muslim or pro-any other group.”
A letter sent Friday by the American Civil Liberties Union urged Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to revoke a threat to cut grant funding to the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies unless it revises its