The Harvard Crimson

A confidential memo shows that the Trump administration had already shared an aggressive ‘menu’ of reforms with Harvard, a week before government officials sent a second list of demands that the University rejected. @dhruvtkpatel & @graceunkyoon report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

Closing arguments for a faculty group’s lawsuit against the Trump administration’s immigration policies concluded Monday, leaving the judge to sort through evidence and dozens of sealed records before ruling. @akshayaravi22 and @laurelmshugart report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

A federal judge is considering Harvard’s for dismissal from a lawsuit filed by three former UPenn swimmers alleging it violated Title IX by letting a transgender swimmer compete in the Ivy League Championships. @akshayaravi22 & @laurelmshugart report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

A federal judge appeared skeptical of the federal government’s justification for freezing nearly $3 billion in research funding to Harvard, as lawyers for both parties asked for a speedy decision in the case. @matanjosephy and @williamcmao report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

Lawyers for Harvard are presenting oral arguments against the Trump administration’s multibillion-dollar research funding cuts at a federal courthouse this morning. Here's what you need to know. @williamcmao and @laurelmshugart report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

A crucial chunk of funding for the realignment of the Massachusetts Turnpike in Allston is under threat following the passage of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which eliminates the source of $335 million to the project. @angelinajparker reports. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

Several high-profile Harvard affiliates were among those who sent birthday letters, some with sexually suggestive messages, to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, according to the Wall Street Journal. @williamcmao and @VeronicaHPaulus report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

Harvard paid lobbying firm Ballard Partners $90,000 in the second quarter of 2025 as the University broadened its federal advocacy to include direct engagement with the White House. @dhruvtkpatel and @graceunkyoon report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

Harvard Medical School has pulled in a raft of small-dollar donations and a major gift from billionaire Leonard Blavatnik, who froze contributions amid outcry over campus antisemitism, its dean announced Thursday. @avaniiiirai and @saketh_sundar report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

A recent HBS graduate filed a federal lawsuit against Harvard and HUPD, accusing them of failing to protect him from an antisemitic assault on campus and obstructing the following investigation. @SebastianC4784, @dhruvtkpatel, and @graceunkyoon report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

A Harvard custodian withdrew a petition to decertify the union representing University custodians last week, saying he hopes to gauge the union’s response before moving further in a campaign to replace it. @amannmahajan reports. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

Senator Ed J. Markey (D-Mass.) has officially announced his support for Boston Mayor Michelle Wu ’07 in her mayoral run, adding to a growing list of endorsements for her reelection campaign. @MeganBlonigen reports. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

Harvard’s five largest campus unions urged the University to pledge to a suite of worker protections amid federal attacks in a Monday letter emailed to Harvard’s top officials. @amannmahajan reports. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

A State Department official testified Friday that claims and phrases common to pro-Palestine campus advocacy — such as criticism of Israel and calls to divest — “could be” grounds for revoking a noncitizen’s visa. @williamcmao and @laurelmshugart report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

Students were left without power for several hours on Thursday morning after an outage — caused by an “underground electrical incident” that injured a contractor — hit several University buildings near the river. @MeganBlonigen and @ShawnBoehmer report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

More than 2,000 pages of court documents present a new window into the government’s process for terminating research grants to Harvard — and show that DOGE helped facilitate the operation. @williamcmao, @VeronicaHPaulus, and @laurelmshugart report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

Harvard College’s John Winthrop House will keep its last name but lose its first after yearslong calls to distance the undergraduate residence from its namesake, whom historians believe was a slaveowner. @samuelachurch and @camsrivastava report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

The Harvard Kennedy School is offering 50 full-ride scholarships to public servants and veterans for a one-year degree through the Mid-Career Masters in Public Administration program, the school announced on Thursday morning. @EliseSpenner reports. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

From @THCSports: Truman Pauley and Callan Fang were selected on Monday in the 2025 MLB Draft after anchoring one of the most improbable turnarounds in Ivy League history. @dhruvtkpatel and @saketh_sundar report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

Students living on campus this summer are weathering this summer’s heat wave from their Harvard dorm rooms, many of which are not equipped with air conditioning. @MeganBlonigen reports. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…