The Trump administration has said it is freezing more than $2bn (£1.5bn) in federal funds for Harvard University, hours after the elite college rejected a list of demands from the White House.

"We would reject any agreement that would require us to relinquish our independence and autonomy as an educational institution," acting president Claire Shipman said on Monday.

“Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?’” Trump wrote in a post ...

President Trump suggested Tuesday that Harvard University should lose its tax-exempt status — one day after his administration froze $2.2 billion in multiyear federal grants over the ...

The comments are the latest volley in an escalating battle between the White House and one of the nation's most prestigious college.

President Donald Trump’s administration froze $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard University Monday after the school resisted its demands to address antisemitism.

Before Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk was grabbed off the street by ICE agents, the State Department determined that the Trump administration had no evidence linking her to antisemitic ...

Tensions are rising across American academia as the Trump administration froze over $2 billion in multi-year grants and contracts at Harvard University after its leaders refused to make key policy ...

The arrest of Mahdawi, a Palestinian from the West Bank who helped found the Palestinian Students Union at Columbia University, is adding to the visibility of far-right pro-Israel groups such as Betar ...

With President Donald Trump and his administration cutting federal funding from major universities for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ...

Photo: Alamy The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in federal funds to Harvard on Monday after the university stated that it would not comply with demands to combat antisemitism. The Joint Task ...

Harvard rejected numerous demands from the Trump administration that it said would cede control of the school to a ...