The Trump administration sent a letter to Harvard University that outlined a slew of demands – like reforming its programs, discontinuing DEI practices and additional policy demands tied to federal funding – in error,

The Ivy League university declined to 'surrender' to the letter's demands, prompting an escalating series of attacks by the US president Harvard University was told by an unidentified official on US President Donald Trump's antisemitism task force that a letter of demands had been sent to the university without authorisation,

A top official from the Donald Trump administration told Harvard University that a controversial letter sent to the institution last week was issued without proper authorisation.