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Harvard University sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday in an effort to halt the government’s pause of more than $2 billion in funding for the U.S. educational institution. “Over the course of the past week, the federal government has taken several actions following Harvard’s refusal to comply with its illegal demands,” Harvard President Alan Garber said in a statement. “Moments ago, we filed a lawsuit to halt the funding freeze because it is unlawful and beyond the government’s authority,” Garber said. Among the U.S. government agencies mentioned in Harvard’s lawsuit were the Education Department, the Health Department, the Justice…

The Trump administration has received trade deal proposals from 18 nations while officials, including U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, are meeting this week with 34 countries to discuss trade, the White House said on Tuesday.

Harvard University sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday in an effort to halt the government’s pause of more than $2 billion in funding for the U.S. educational institution. “Over the course of the past week, the federal government has taken several actions following Harvard’s refusal to comply with its illegal demands,” Harvard President Alan Garber said in a statement. “Moments ago, we filed a lawsuit to halt the funding freeze because it is unlawful and beyond the government’s authority,” Garber said. Among the U.S. government agencies mentioned in Harvard’s lawsuit were the Education Department, the Health Department, the Justice…

U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday about trade issues and Iran. “The call went very well—We are on the same side of every issue,” Trump wrote in a social media post.

Expert-level Iran-U.S. talks that were supposed to take place on Wednesday will be moved to Saturday, Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Tuesday.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Chinese citizens were working at a drone production site in Russia and suggested that Moscow may have “stolen” drone technology from China. The Ukrainian leader made the comment at a news conference in Kyiv days after he said China was supplying weapons and gunpowder to Russia, the first time he has accused Beijing of direct military aid to Moscow, something China staunchly denies. By suggesting Russia may have obtained drone technology from China without Beijing actually knowing, Zelensky appeared to be softening his tone towards China, which casts itself as neutral on the…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, the New York Times reported on Sunday, raising more questions about his use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly-sensitive security details. Hegseth allegedly shared the same details of the attack that were revealed last month by The Atlantic magazine after its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included in a separate chat on the Signal app by mistake, in an embarrassing incident involving all of President Donald Trump’s most senior national security officials. The…

Ukainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that Kyiv was sending a delegation to talks in London on Wednesday with Western countries on finding a resolution to the more than three-year-old war with Russia. “We are ready to move forward as constructively as possible, just as we have done before, to achieve an unconditional ceasefire, followed by the establishment of a real and lasting peace,” Zelensky wrote on the X social media platform. Zelenskiy said a 30-hour Easter truce proclaimed by Russia, which each side accused the other of violating, showed that it was Russia’s actions “that are prolonging the…

Members of the 1.4 billion-member global Catholic community expressed grief on Monday at the death of Pope Francis, many praising him as a humble man who stood up for the marginalised. At the Vatican, tourists and pilgrims there for Holy Week were dazed at the pontiff’s demise the morning after he had driven in his open-topped pope mobile through crowds cheering “Viva il Papa!” on Christianity’s holiest day. “He appeared in public yesterday, looked healthy. I was so shocked, and sad of course,” said Father Bachai, a retired priest from the United States. “May he rest in peace. He has…

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued Uber Technologies, accusing it of signing up some Uber One subscribers without their knowledge and making deceptive claims about the service. The service costs $9.99 a month and offers discounts on fees associated with Uber’s ride hailing and food delivery apps. Uber falsely claimed that users would save about $25 a month through the service and deceived users about how easy it was to cancel, the FTC said in the lawsuit filed in San Francisco. “Americans are tired of getting signed up for unwanted subscriptions that seem impossible to cancel,” FTC Chairman…