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Al Jazeera Staff

Trump administration cuts another $450m in Harvard grants in escalating row

Harvard University has been at the centre of the Trump administration's pressure campaign to impose reforms [Steven Senne/AP Photo]

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has slashed another $450m in grants from Harvard University, amid an ongoing feud over anti-Semitism, presidential control and the limits of academic freedom.

On Tuesday, a joint task force assembled under Trump accused Harvard, the country’s oldest university, of perpetrating a “long-standing policy and practice of discriminating on the basis of race”.

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