Trump Administration Threatens Harvard, Other US News
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The Trump administration threatened to seize Harvard University's patents due to alleged breaches of federally funded research agreements. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick demanded a patent inventory and details on licensing, potentially initiating a process to claim ownership. Simultaneously, other news includes Trump's nomination of Tammy Bruce as US deputy UN representative, the removal of the IRS commissioner over an immigration policy dispute, Democrats' aggressive stance against Trump's political maneuvers, a look at the history of gerrymandering, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's controversial repost of a video opposing women's suffrage, and the return of an FDA official after a controversy.
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