Federal judge blocks attempt to ban foreign students from Harvard

The World

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4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from revoking Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students. Also, five years after the killing of George Floyd in the US, a look at the global reckoning that ensued over racism, policing and historical injustice. And, Bangladesh’s interim leader, Muhammad Yunus, threatens to resign over political turmoil in the country. Plus, a look at the one village in Spain that didn’t lose power during last month’s blackout.

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0:00.0	Has this ever happened to you?
0:02.5	You wake up, look at your phone, scroll through the news for a minute or two, and then think, wow, how did we get here?
0:10.4	Well, that's the question we tackle every week on NPR's ThruLine podcast.
0:15.4	We tell you the surprising stories of the people who made our history.
0:19.7	Carl Sagan was in people's living rooms talking about the wonders of the universe, making
0:24.3	science feel personal and important to an everyday person.
0:29.9	Listen to Thuringland from NPR, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:33.6	Music It's not just the Trump administration versus Harvard, more than a million international students study in the U.S.
0:51.9	Now they all are under this cloud of uncertainty. I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Carol Hills. All the U.S. Now they all are under this cloud of uncertainty.
0:55.6	I'm Carolyn Beeler.
0:56.8	And I'm Carol Hills.
0:58.2	Also today, Russia and Ukraine are carrying out their largest prisoner swap yet, but there's
1:03.4	very little progress on peace talks.
1:05.5	We're not going to see the Ukrainians agree to any deal that doesn't leave them sovereign, insecure in what's left of
1:12.8	Ukraine. And setting up an elaborate simulation of a horrific car crash to figure out what can be
1:19.6	learned. I didn't think I'd feel like this and it's not real. What, it could have been.
1:23.7	We'll also hear about the legacy of a towering figure in Russian ballet and the village in Spain that didn't go dark when the rest of the country did.
1:32.2	That's all ahead today.
1:33.2	On the world.
1:36.5	This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler.
1:39.2	And I'm Carol Hills. Thanks for joining us today.
1:42.1	Less than a week before graduation, thousands of international students at Harvard University got some good news. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's attempt to revoke Harvard's ability to enroll students from abroad.
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