A pedestrian casts a shadow on a Harvard College signal. File
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The Trump administration filed a new lawsuit on Friday (February 13, 2026) in opposition to Harvard College, accusing it of failing to adjust to a federal investigation, and looking for paperwork associated to its admissions course of, based on a submitting in a federal court docket in Massachusetts.
U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned earlier this month that his administration was looking for $1 billion from Harvard to settle probes into college insurance policies, after a information report that mentioned Mr. Trump had dropped his demand for a fee from the Ivy League college.
Harvard has been a central focus of the administration’s broad marketing campaign to leverage federal funding to drive change at U.S. universities, which Mr. Trump says are gripped by antisemitic and “radical left” ideologies.
The administration cancelled lots of of grants awarded to Harvard researchers on the grounds the college did not do sufficient to deal with harassment of Jewish college students on its campus, prompting Harvard to sue.
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