Boston is pressuring Harvard University and other local colleges to funnel millions more into the city’s tax coffers, a push that’s becoming increasingly complicated as the Trump administration intensifies its attacks on higher education.

Harvard University held its commencement ceremony today as a federal district judge said she will issue a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from making changes to Harvard’s student visa program indefinitely.

A letter from the Trump administration says government agencies should look at canceling their remaining federal contracts with Harvard University.

As the White House moves to revoke Harvard University’s certification to enroll foreign students — escalating a battle between the administration and the oldest and wealthiest college in the U.S. — President Donald Trump is falsely claiming that Harvard offers “remedial mathematics” on topics such as simple addition.

The judge in Boston said an order was necessary because “it gives some protection to international students who might be anxious about coming here or anxious about remaining here once they are here.”

The Harvard University commencement is underway. Harvard is providing a livestream of today's graduation ceremony.

Boston is pushing local tax-exempt colleges including Harvard University to contribute more to city coffers by paying cash in lieu of property taxes. The city is seeking to lock in higher payments and longer commitments as it faces budget pressures due to plummeting office values downtown.

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people.

Harvard University has agreed to transfer ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people to Tamara Lanier, a descendant of one of the subjects, as part of a landmark legal settlement addressing the university’s historical exploitation of enslaved individuals for racist scientific purposes.