Education Department blocked from releasing list of foreign sources of funding for Ivy League universities

A federal judge blocked the Education Department on Thursday from releasing a list of foreign donors to Harvard, Columbia and other top US universities — ruling that the disclosure of the confidential information could “constitute irreparable harm.” DC US District Judge Tanya Chutkan slapped the temporary restraining order on the Trump administration as it was seeking to publish a list of all foreign donors who have given up to $5.2 billion to the universities since 2020. So-called non-natural person entities accounted for the vast majority of the $5.2 billion, officials noted, rather than individual donors. “This would be a foreign...