LOS ANGELES: President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to withdraw federal funds from UC Berkeley after violent campus protests forced the cancellation of a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, a firebrand editor of right-wing news site Breitbart.

The disturbances were a fiery reminder of the university's history as a cradle of the 1960s anti-war movement—and a sign of the sharp tensions pitting the country's mostly left-wing student body against a far-right minority.

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