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News Wrap: Judge rules White House unlawfully blocked Harvard’s research grants

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In our news wrap Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated Harvard's research grants, Florida is moving to become the first state to eliminate all vaccine mandates for children to attend school and President Trump is defending a military strike on a boat in the Caribbean, saying it will prevent further attempts to bring drugs into the country. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

We start the day's other headlines with the Trump administration's ongoing battle with Harvard University.

0:05.6

A federal judge has ruled that officials unlawfully terminated about $2.2 billion in research grants

0:11.7

amid claims of anti-Semitism on campus. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs found that the cuts

0:17.6

amounted to illegal retaliation for Harvard's refusal to give in to White House

0:22.4

demands over how it operates. It's a major victory for Harvard, which has been working to cut a deal

0:28.0

with the Trump administration after months of legal wrangling. President Trump has said previously

0:33.0

that his administration would appeal any such rulings from Judge Burroughs. Florida is moving to become the

0:39.2

first state to eliminate all vaccine mandates, including those for children to attend school. During a

0:45.1

press conference today, state surgeon general Joseph Latipo called such requirements immoral and even

0:51.0

compared them to a form of slavery. It's unclear how exactly Florida would eliminate

0:56.1

the requirements. Some would require action by state lawmakers. Meantime, the governors of California,

1:01.7

Oregon, and Washington are forming an alliance to coordinate their immunization policies.

1:07.0

They want to provide guidance based on hard data and guard against what they view as political

1:11.7

interference in science. It comes as health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moves to undercut

1:18.0

longstanding federal guidance on vaccines. Republicans in Congress are welcoming Washington, D.C.

1:24.2

Mayor Muriel Bowser's decision to continue collaborating with President Trump's

1:28.9

federal forces. Bowser issued an order yesterday to keep an emergency operation center open indefinitely.

1:35.9

The move, which the president says is aimed at combating crime, allows local officials to coordinate

1:41.2

directly with the federal agencies he has ordered into the city.

1:45.0

House Republicans told reporters today that other cities should follow suit.

1:50.0

Mayor Bowser, who is a Democrat, as you know, sign an executive order just yesterday,

1:55.0

welcoming federal law enforcement in D.C. indefinitely. Okay. I hope my Democrat colleagues here will wake up and realize that crime is not a partisan

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