The Trump administration is cutting another $450 million in federal grants to Harvard University – on top of $2.2 billion already slashed – tightening even further its ideological pressure on America’s oldest and wealthiest university amid a broader battle over control of US college campuses.

Harvard University is dedicating $250 million of its own funds to support researchers after U.S. President Donald Trump's administration froze nearly $3 billion in federal grants and contracts in recent weeks,

Harvard researcher in ICE custody charged with smuggling frog embryos into Boston; Massachusetts U.S. Attorney criticizes The New York Times for allowing her opinion piece

Harvard University announced Wednesday that it will dedicate an initial $250 million toward backfilling some of the Trump administration’s research funding cuts to the university, which to date amount to nearly $3 billion.

A Russian-born scientist and research associate at Harvard University who has been held for weeks in an immigration detention center in Louisiana has been criminally charged with attempting to smuggle frog embryo samples into the United States.

Harvard University has responded to threats from the Education Department to halt grant funding to the Ivy League school

Harvard University President Alan Garber has twice publicly rebuked the Trump administration for threatening the school’s independence. Both times the US government has punched back.