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Harvard contracts threatened, Philadelphia park shooting, Chinese factory explosion & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The Trump administration is expected to tell federal agencies to cancel their contracts with Harvard University. It’s a big week for the economy - we’ll tell you about some key data coming out. At least two people were killed in a shooting in Philadelphia. Rescue operations are underway after a blast at a chemical plant in China. Plus, we’ll tell you why a man swam 60 miles around Martha’s Vineyard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello from CNN, I'm Joe Beck, with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, May 27th.

0:38.8

Harvard University and the Trump administration will have a hearing over their foreign students

0:43.8

battle today. The Ivy League School is suing the administration, after it banned the college

0:49.3

from enrolling international students. In an order, a court has now halted. Meanwhile, sources say the Trump

0:56.0

administration is planning to direct federal agencies to cancel the government's contracts with

1:01.8

Harvard, which are worth roughly $100 million. Trump also threatened to cut off $3 billion in federal

1:09.6

grant funding over Harvard's handling of anti-Israel

1:12.9

protests.

1:13.9

We give them billions of dollars, which is ridiculous.

1:17.7

We do grants, which we're probably not going to be doing much grants anymore to Harvard.

1:22.3

Yesterday, Trump posted on Truth Social that he was considering giving the money to trade

1:26.6

schools instead. Harvard's president

1:29.0

told NPR that the administration's moves to cut funding are, quote, perplexing, and said that

1:35.5

cutting high-priority research hurts Harvard but doesn't help the country.

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