Harvard and the federal government are locked in a battle that boils down to turning over records on international students. But Harvard says it is also about the First Amendment.

The administration has frozen funding and targeted international students as it presses the university for a stronger response to alleged antisemitism.

Massachusetts Congressman Stephen Lynch is outraged by the Trump administration's effort to ban foreign students. "It will take years, maybe decades to repair the damage that Donald Trump and that group of morons and buffoons is doing to this country each and every day,

The court battle over Harvard's foreign students tests both the legality of the White House's tactics and the judicial system’s ability to rein in alleged government overreach.

The battle between Harvard and the Trump administration is a long and windy one. Here's what background you need to know.

Some of Harvard’s sports teams would be virtually wiped out by a Trump administration decision that would make the Ivy League school ineligible for international student visas.

An attempt to bar the school from hosting international students is just the latest escalation of an ongoing back-and-forth over Harvard's ideological future.

President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi gesture as Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) looks on during a ceremony honoring the 2025 NCAA men’s basketball champion Florida Gators at the White House, May 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C.