Trump again threatens to end Harvard tax exemption

US President Donald Trump on Friday re-upped his threat to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status, escalating a showdown with the first major college that has defied his efforts to crack down on campus activism.

“We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status,” Trump wrote on his social media site. “It’s what they deserve!”

The Treasury Department directed a senior official at the Internal Revenue Service to begin the process of revoking Harvard’s tax-exempt status shortly after a social media post from Trump in mid-April questioning it. The White House has also said any IRS actions will be conducted independently of the president.

In addition to threatening Harvard’s tax-exempt status and halting federal grants, Trump wants to block Harvard from being able to enrol international students.

Indian’s deportation case may be shifted

The US administration told a federal judge that Badar Khan Suri’s deportation case should be moved from Virginia, where it was filed, to Texas, where he’s jailed over allegations of supporting Hamas.