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Harvard graduation overshadowed by Trump threats

Graduates gather before the start of the commencement ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 29, 2025. (Photo by Rick Friedman / AFP)

Thousands of Harvard students in crimson-fringed gowns celebrated their graduation Thursday, as a federal judge said she would temporarily block Donald Trump's bid to bar the prestigious university from enrolling international scholars.

Trump has made Harvard the central target of his campaign against elite US universities, which he has threatened with funding freezes and action against their foreign students over what he says is liberal bias and anti-Semitism.

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