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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Nicola Slawson

First Thing: Obama condemns Trump’s $2.3bn Harvard funding freeze as ‘unlawful’

Protesters with a placards reading Hands Off Harvard
The education department says $2.3bn in funds to Harvard are to be frozen after the university rejected a slew of demands. Photograph: Nicholas Pfosi/Reuters

Good morning.

The US education department is freezing about $2.3bn in federal funds to Harvard University, the agency said yesterday, a move that the former US president Barack Obama called “unlawful and ham-handed”.

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