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BREAKING: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from revoking Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Margaret Faust<\/span>Margaret Faust is a Desk Assistant at NBC News in Washington.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology today announced an open invitation to international undergraduate and postgraduate students currently enrolled at Harvard University to continue their education at its university.\u00a0 \u00a0
In a press release, the university said it will provide \u201cunconditional offers, streamlined admission procedures, and academic support\u00a0to facilitate a seamless transition for interested students.\u201d\u00a0
The news comes after Harvard University sued the Trump administration today after the federal government said yesterday that it would\u00a0block the nation\u2019s oldest university\u2019s ability to enroll foreign students<\/a>.\u00a0
Rebecca Shabad<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Vice President JD Vance touted the change in the U.S. approach to foreign policy in remarks to Naval Academy graduates this morning, arguing the Trump administration has moved away from never-ending wars and over-involvement in other countries’ affairs.
\u201cWe had a long experiment in our foreign policy that traded national defense and the maintenance of our alliances for nation-building and meddling in foreign countries\u2019 affairs, even when those foreign countries had very little to do with core American interests,” Vance said in a commencement address in Annapolis, Maryland.
“What we\u2019re seeing from President Trump is a generational shift in policy, with profound implications for the job that each and every one of you will be asked to do,” he said.
Vance, who served in the Marine Corps, criticized previous U.S. leadership for devoting energy to trying to “build a few democracies in the Middle East” instead of responding to the rise of competitors like China.
\u201cOur government took its eye off the ball of great power competition and preparing to take on a peer adversary, and instead, we devoted ourselves to sprawling amorphous tasks like searching for new terrorists to take out while building up far-away regimes,” he said. “Now I want to be clear, the Trump administration has reversed course \u2014 no more undefined missions, no more open-ended conflicts. We\u2019re returning to a strategy grounded in realism and protecting our core national interests.\u201d
Arata Yamamoto<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Julia Zhong<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Reporting from Tokyo
The prime minister of Japan said he had spoken by phone with Trump, and that the two leaders expressed hope for \u201cproductive\u201d talks on the tariffs Trump has imposed on the key U.S. ally.
The 45-minute call, which Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said was requested by Trump, came ahead of a third round of tariff negotiations between Washington and Tokyo that could take place as soon as today.
There has been \u201cno change\u201d in Tokyo\u2019s stance urging the U.S. to remove a new 10% baseline tariff and 24% extra levies on Japanese goods, Ishiba told reporters in Tokyo.
Ishiba said he and Trump exchanged views on a wide range of issues, including Trump\u2019s recent trip to the Middle East, but that he didn\u2019t ask Trump why he initiated the call. The two leaders also said they were \u201clooking forward\u201d to a face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of next month\u2019s summit in Canada of the Group of 7 nations, Ishiba said.
Julia Zhong<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Reporting from Hong Kong
China pledged to \u201cfirmly defend the legitimate and lawful rights and interests\u201d of Chinese students overseas after Trump effectively barred Harvard from enrolling international students<\/a>.
\u201cWhat the U.S. seeks to do will undoubtedly hurt its own image and reputation in the world,\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular briefing in Beijing.
U.S.-China educational cooperation is \u201cmutually beneficial,\u201d Mao said, and China has \u201cconsistently opposed the politicization of educational exchanges.\u201d
Almost 7,000 of Harvard\u2019s roughly 25,000 students are from outside the United States, and of those about 1,200 are from China. In announcing the ban on international students, the Department of Homeland Security said it was holding Harvard accountable for \u201ccoordinating with the\u00a0Chinese Communist Party,\u201d among other reasons.
Reuters<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Russia and\u00a0Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0began a major prisoner swap today that was agreed at their first direct talks in more than three years, a Ukrainian military source said.
Trump<\/a>\u00a0said the prisoner exchange had already been completed but Kyiv and Moscow did not confirm this and the military source said the swap was still underway.
Russia and Ukraine each agreed\u00a0at two hours of talks in Istanbul<\/a>\u00a0last week to swap 1,000 prisoners, but\u00a0failed to agree to a ceasefire proposed by Trump<\/a>. Previous prisoner swaps have been mediated by the United Arab Emirates.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Ben Kamisar<\/span><\/span><\/span>
The Democratic National Committee took the next step toward deciding whether to call a new election for two of its vice chair positions, slots currently held by activist David Hogg and Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, amid a complaint their election wasn’t conducted properly.
The 400-plus member DNC will vote electronically June 9 to June 11 on whether to accept a recommendation from its Credentials Committee<\/a>, which requested a new election for the two positions because it found the vote unfairly disadvantaged female candidates.
If the full committee decides to accept the recommendation (plus another measure laying out the schedule for a new vote), it will hold an electronic vote June 12 to June 14 for one vice chair position that must be held by a male. Then it will hold another vote for the last vice chair slot, which could be won by a candidate of any gender, from June 15 to June 17.
Hogg has public<\/a>ly<\/a> clash<\/a>ed<\/a> with party leaders<\/a> for months over his decision to back primary challenges to Democratic incumbents. While the procedural complaint over the committee election was filed well before tensions between Hogg and the party bubbled over, Hogg has claimed the push for a new election is related to that intraparty disagreement
Kenyatta, whose seat is also in jeopardy depending on what the DNC decides, has criticized Hogg’s portrayal <\/a>of that vote even as he said he disagreed with the recommendation to call for a new election. And DNC Chairman Ken Martin has also framed the vote as exclusively about a “procedural error” that occurred during the February vote, before Martin formally took over party operations.
Matt Lavietes<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Harvard University sued the Trump administration today after the federal government said it would block the nation\u2019s oldest university\u2019s ability to enroll foreign students.
\u201cWe condemn this unlawful and unwarranted action,\u201d the university said in a statement. \u201cIt imperils the futures of thousands of students and scholars across Harvard and serves as a warning to countless others at colleges and universities throughout the country who have come to America to pursue their education and fulfill their dreams.\u201d
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Kimmy Yam<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Chloe Atkins<\/span><\/span><\/span>
A federal judge in California blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal statuses of international students at universities across the U.S.
In the injunction yesterday, District Judge Jeffrey S. White in Oakland also prohibited the administration from arresting or detaining any foreign-born students on the basis of their immigration status while a case challenging previous terminations moves through the courts.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Reuters<\/span><\/span><\/span>
JOHANNESBURG \u2014 Trump<\/a>\u00a0showed a screenshot of Reuters video taken in the\u00a0Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a>\u00a0as part of what he falsely presented Wednesday as evidence of mass killings of white\u00a0South Africans<\/a>.
\u201cThese are all white farmers that are being buried,\u201d said Trump, holding up a printout of an article accompanied by the picture during a contentious Oval Office meeting with South African President\u00a0Cyril Ramaphosa<\/a>.
In fact, the video, published by Reuters on Feb. 3 and subsequently verified by the news agency\u2019s fact-check team, showed humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from Reuters footage shot following deadly battles with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Steve Kopack<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Trump today threatened the European Union with a sweeping 50% tariff, posting that trade talks with the region are \u201cgoing nowhere.\u201d
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that he was \u201crecommending a straight 50% Tariff on the European Union, starting on June 1, 2025.\u201d\u00a0
Trump\u2019s post immediately sent European stock markets lower with stock indexes in Germany and France sharply dropping 2%. Shares in the United Kingdom dropped more than 1%. Dow futures slid more than 500 points and S&P futures dropped 1%.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Rob Wile<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Trump has threatened Apple with a 25% tariff if it does not start producing iPhones in the U.S., his latest salvo directly targeting a U.S. company over how it conducts its business.
In a\u00a0post<\/a>\u00a0on his Truth Social platform this morning, Trump wrote he had \u201clong ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone\u2019s that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else.\u201d
\u201cIf that is not the case, a Tariff of at least 25% must be paid by Apple to the U.S.\u201d Trump said.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Lawrence Hurley<\/span><\/span><\/span>
The\u00a0Supreme Court<\/a>\u00a0yesterday granted a Trump administration request that allows the president to fire members of independent federal agencies while suggesting that its legal reasoning would not apply to the Federal Reserve.
The move to pause a lower court ruling\u00a0<\/strong>formalizes a\u00a0temporary decision<\/a>\u00a0along similar lines April 9 that allowed Trump to fire Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board, and Cathy Harris, a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke to NBC News\u2019 Tom Llamas about the new Health and Human Services report saying, \u201cour kids are the sickest kids in the world.\u201d\u00a0
Tyler Kingkade<\/span><\/span><\/span>
The Trump administration has halted Harvard\u2019s ability to enroll international students amid an ongoing standoff between the government and the Ivy League school.
Harvard has\u00a0refused to adhere<\/a>\u00a0to a set of demands issued by the Trump administration\u2019s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism\u00a0<\/em>that included sweeping reforms to whom the university can hire and admit, and subjecting the ideology of faculty members to an audit approved by the government.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
David Ingram<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Nnamdi Egwuonwu<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Trump held a private event last night for 220 crypto investors who had bought into his meme coin, defying bipartisan concerns from lawmakers that he was selling access to accumulate personal wealth.
Crypto enthusiasts, including former NBA star Lamar Odom, attended the dinner at Trump National Golf Club in northern Virginia, just outside Washington. About 100 demonstrators lined the road to the entrance, trying to shame attendees with chants and signs such as \u201cTrump is a traitor,\u201d \u201cCrypto corruption\u201d and \u201cAmerica is not for sale.\u201d
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
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