Harvard University settled a lawsuit by a former divinity student who claims that Jewish students face widespread antisemitism on campus and who supports President Donald Trump’s efforts to force change at US schools.

Harvard University and Shabbos Kestenbaum have reached an agreement to resolve their ongoing litigation,” Harvard said in a statement.

"Harvard and Mr. Kestenbaum acknowledge each other's steadfast and important efforts to combat antisemitism at Harvard and elsewhere," the university said in a statement on Thursd

Residents are on high alert in Cambridge after someone was sexually assaulted by two people in Harvard Square.

Two people wearing ski masks and gloves were reported to have sexually assaulted a person in Harvard Square in Cambridge on Thursday night.

Cambridge police are investigating a reported sexual assault that occurred in Harvard Square Thursday night, police said. The reported sexual assault occurred during the late evening hours and extra patrols have been assigned to the area as an “additional precaution,” the Cambridge Police Department said in a statement.

A federal judge has ordered the transfer of a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher facing deportation from Louisiana, where she was detained by immigration authorities, to Massachusetts,

Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody since February, when she flew into Boston Logan International Airport with unclaimed frog embryo samples and slides.

A Russian researcher at Harvard Medical School who has been detained by US immigration authorities since February was charged with illegally smuggling frog embryos in her luggage on a plane flight.

In a letter sent by Trump’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism to the university on Tuesday, the administration informed Harvard that another $450 million in grants were on the chopping block because the school has allegedly become a “breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination.”

As the Trump administration halts about $2.7 billion in Harvard University funding, the school’s president is absorbing some of the financial impacts by taking a 25 % pay cut, according to a university spokesperson.

Harvard University said on Wednesday that its president had chosen to cut his own pay by 25 percent starting later this year as a response to its clashing with the Trump administration over its academic independence and the withdrawal of billions of dollars in research funding,