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Harvard to ask court to declare Trump’s $2bn funding freeze unlawful – US politics live

Top US university returns to court to fight against funding freeze that halted major research efforts

Donald Trump’s libel lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch has been assigned to Darrin P Gayles, a US district judge for the southern district of Florida.

Trump’s lawsuit on Friday, which also targets Dow Jones and News Corp, was filed in the southern district of Florida federal court in Miami.

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© Photograph: Faith Ninivaggi/Reuters

© Photograph: Faith Ninivaggi/Reuters

© Photograph: Faith Ninivaggi/Reuters

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How Canadian fentanyl smuggling to the U.S. really works and who’s behind it: Full Comment podcast

Between President Donald Trump claiming there’s a flood of fentanyl from Canada to the U.S., and people here insisting there’s almost none, the truth is elusive. A new American report gets to the bottom of what’s really going on, and its author, Jonathan Caulkins, talks to Brian about what he found. Specializing in crime systems, the professor from Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College breaks down how global supply chains run by criminal organizations moving from Mexico to China to Australia feed Canadian labs with precursor chemicals. And how much of the final made-in-Canada product actually ends up on America’s streets — including, unexpectedly, in Alaska. Read More
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