DOJ Sues Harvard Over Jewish Students’ Civil Rights
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:27.4 | Here's your midday brief for Friday, March 20th. I'm Pierre Biennames for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:33.0 | The Trump administration is suing Harvard University, alleging that the school violated Jewish |
| 0:38.1 | students' civil rights. The suit says Harvard failed to protect its Jewish and Israeli students |
| 0:43.3 | by ignoring hostility on campus and refusing to enforce anti-harassment rules. It seeks to recover |
| 0:49.2 | millions of taxpayer dollars that Harvard accepted while allegedly violating civil rights law. |
| 0:54.1 | Harvard says it's taken steps to address anti-Semitism on campus. |
| 0:57.8 | The school says the lawsuit is retaliation by the administration because of Harvard, |
| 1:01.7 | quote, refusing to turn over control of the school to the government. |
| 1:05.6 | The Pentagon is sending three warships and around 2,500 Marines to the Middle East. It's the second deployment |
| 1:12.9 | of Marines to the region in the past week. Meanwhile, Iran says U.S. and Israeli strikes have not |
| 1:18.5 | stopped its ability to produce missiles. And Iran's armed forces warned that they will target the |
| 1:23.7 | country's enemies, including officials, pilots, and soldiers in amusement parks, |
| 1:28.2 | resorts, and tourist centers, saying, quote, no place in the world will be safe for you. |
| 1:33.9 | And a new federal indictment alleges that several super microcomputer employees, including one of its |
| 1:39.5 | co-founders, helped smuggle billions of dollars in high-end Nvidia chips to China, using dummy devices to deceive an American inspector. |
| 1:48.0 | The alleged scheme involved a Southeast Asian company that repackaged servers before shipping them to China. |
| 1:54.0 | Three defendants couldn't be reached for comment. |
| 1:57.0 | Super Micro, which wasn't named as a defendant, said it has placed two employees on leave and fired a contractor. |
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