Trump Administration Asks Harvard for Data on Foreign Giving

A store near the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Photographer: Sophie Park/Bloomberg
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The Trump Administration demanded Harvard University share information going years back on donations and contracts from foreign countries, opening a new front in its battle against the institution.

The Education Department said it sent a records request to Harvard after a review of the university’s foreign reports revealed “incomplete and inaccurate disclosures,” according to statement from the Education Department Friday.