Harvard Sues Trump in Heavyweight Funding Fight

Clash of the titans: Harvard sued Trump over frozen grants and rescinded contracts, setting up a high-stakes showdown that will test the administration’s strategy for reforming higher education.

The move came exactly one week after Harvard informed the administration that it would not accept its policy demands. Trump froze $2.2 billion in Harvard funds shortly thereafter. Harvard threw the next punch with its lawsuit. Trump froze another $1 billion in funds from there.

"Harvard's attorneys argue that administration's actions violate a federal law that governs the disbursal of grants and loans and which stipulates that the 'termination of or refusal to grant or continue' federal financial assistance is meant to be 'a remedy of last resort,’" writes the Free Beacon’s Collin Anderson. "The lawsuit also argues there is little connection between the Trump administration’s stated goal—compelling universities to crack down on campus anti-Semitism—and the means it is using to achieve that end."

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Can't stop, won't stop: What is it with Columbia activists and tents?

With the one-year anniversary of the school's "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" looming, a keffiyeh-clad Columbia alumna set up a tent just outside of the main campus gate, where masked agitators had chained themselves. The NYPD, unburdened by the historically lengthy approval process needed to enter campus, quickly arrested the tent enthusiast. Columbia public safety officials cut her friends' chains. They still refused to leave.

A Columbia spokeswoman said the "small disruption" did not impede "the ability of our students to attend classes as normal." But Columbia senior Eden Yadegar told our Jessica Costescu and Jessica Schwalb that the demonstration "disrupted most of her class on the seventh floor of Hamilton Hall," the building activists stormed and occupied last year.

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Family tradition: It’s not just Hunter Biden who plays fast and loose with the nation’s tax laws. His sister Ashley has gotten in on the act, according to a complaint from the National Legal and Policy Center watchdog group.

At the center of the complaint is the trauma recovery center Ashley launched in Philadelphia at the height of her father's presidency, the Women's Wellness Spa(ce). It got off the ground thanks to at least $500,000 in seed funding from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Archewell Foundation and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, according to the nonprofits' disclosures. "But the Women’s Wellness Spa(ce) told a much different story to the IRS, reporting in its 2023 tax filing that it received just $170,296 from all sources that year, and that it didn’t receive any contributions from a single source greater than $5,000, seemingly contradicting the financial reporting of its two largest benefactors," writes our Andrew Kerr. "Ashley Biden signed the document as the charity’s president under penalty of perjury."

Hunter's financial misdeeds were wiped clean thanks to a pardon from Old Joe. Ashley "was one of the few members of Joe Biden's immediate family who didn't receive a pardon from the former president."

READ MORE: Ashley Biden's Charity Failed To Disclose $500,000 in Donations to IRS, Complaint Alleges

Away from the Beacon:

• No more free ride: The Department of Education "will resume collections of its defaulted federal student loan portfolio" in two weeks, it announced Monday, marking the first time the department has "collected on defaulted loans since March 2020."
• The DNC's official X account took aim at the Trump White House for "using 30,000 real eggs" for this year's annual Easter Egg Roll. Last year, Biden used 64,000
• Tread carefully: Today is a worldwide "day of rage" over Israel's war on Hamas. Israel’s National Security Council is warning of potential "violent incidents against Israelis." We'll keep you posted.

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