High court levels the legal playing field, saying that everyone deserves the same protection from discrimination, including straight white women and men.

Harvard University lawyers urged a federal judge to rule immediately that the Trump administration’s freeze on $2.2 billion in funding is illegal and that it violated the school’s free speech and regulatory rights.

Two dozen universities, including five Ivy League schools, filed an amicus brief, including six that joined the coalition in a filing Monday, court records show.

The Trump administration’s fights with Harvard and Columbia are eye-openers for other universities who are trying to decipher how to handle the president and his desire to exert control over their policies.

As Harvard University, elite law firms and perceived political enemies of President Donald Trump fight back against his efforts to use government power to punish them, they’re winning thanks in part to the National Rifle Association.

Harvard University lawyers have requested a federal judge to deem the Trump administration's $2.6 billion funding freeze illegal, arguing it violates free speech and regulatory rights.

Harvard's filing in the U.S. District Court in Boston said that it had received 957 orders since April 14 to freeze funding for research pertaining to national security threats, cancer and infectious diseases and more since the country's oldest and wealthiest school rejected a White House list of demands.

The US State Department has ordered its embassies to resume processing student and exchange visitor visas for Harvard University applicants, following

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