Friday, March 20
US President Donald Trump said late on Monday that his administration is seeking $1 billion in damages from Harvard University, escalating a long-running dispute between the White House and the Ivy League school. The president made the statement in a post on Truth Social, without detailing what specific harm the university had caused.“We are now seeking One Billion Dollars in damages, and want nothing further to do, into the future, with Harvard University,” Trump said in the post on Truth Social. The remarks come as the administration continues its legal battle with the university. In December, Trump’s administration appealed a judge’s ruling that said it had unlawfully terminated more than $2 billion in federal grants awarded to Harvard and could no longer cut off research fundin
A group of civil rights organisations has sued the US State Department over its decision to pause the processing of immigrant visas for citizens from 75 countries. The lawsuit, filed on Monday in a federal court in Manhattan, seeks to block the policy that took effect on January 21. The groups argue that the move violates long-standing immigration law and has separated families and blocked approved workers from entering the United States. The case challenges the State Department’s claim that applicants from the affected countries are more likely to become “public charges” by relying on government welfare. The complaint said the policy is “based on an unsupported and demonstrably false claim that nationals of the covered countries migrate to the United States to improperly rely on c
