The U.S. Department of Education informed Harvard University on Monday that it was freezing billions of dollars in future research grants and other aid until the nation's oldest and wealthiest college concedes to a number of demands from the Trump administration,

The Trump administration won’t provide Harvard University with any new federal grants, Education Secretary Linda McMahon told the school Monday in the latest escalation of the continuing battle between the government and the country’s most prominent university.

The Trump administration unveiled new steps to target federal funding to Harvard University, announcing Monday that it is cutting off all new federal research grants. The move marked the administration’s latest effort to demand political policy changes from the elite university amid a major clash over academic freedom,