There's a battle playing out over who should control American universities.

We're going to bankrupt these universities.

In season one, we were guessing what was to come.

Now we know.

We want $500 million from Harvard.

It's season two of The Harvard Plan.

This time, it really is personal.

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The longest government shutdown in history could come to an end in a matter of days. That's after eight Democratic senators

voted with Republicans Monday night to approve a funding measure. The measure now heads to the

House and later to the president's desk to be signed. But late Sunday, while most eyes were on the

Senate's shutdown negotiations,

the Trump administration was busy trying to rewrite the history of the 2020 election. Just before

midnight, a Justice Department lawyer posted a list on X of dozens of people receiving presidential

pardons, all of whom were accused of trying to overturn the results of the 2020

election. Most are top allies and former aides of President Trump, including the president's

former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell,

a former federal prosecutor who tried to overturn election results in key swing states and spread

false claims of widespread voting machine fraud. What do these partons actually do? And how is the

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