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Judge presses Trump admin on Harvard funding cuts

US-Hungarian commentator and writer Rod Dreher, director of the Network Project at the Danube Institute and author of 'Live Not By Lies'.[AFP]

A federal judge on Monday challenged the Trump administration's reasons for slashing billions of dollars in federal funding to Harvard University, triggering a furious response from the president.

Judge Allison Burroughs pressed the administration's lawyer to explain how cutting grants to diverse research budgets would help protect students from alleged campus anti-Semitism, US media reported.

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