US President Donald Trump has said his administration wants to accept a plane worth an estimated $400m (£303m) as a gift from Qatar, calling it "a great gesture" that he would be "stupid" to turn down.
The letter stated Harvard had 72 hours to comply with a list of demands to have an "opportunity" to regain its ability to enrol these students.That included providing the government with all disciplinary records for non-immigrant students enrolled at Harvard over the past five years. Noem also demanded Harvard turn over electronic records, videos, or audio of "illegal" and "dangerous or violent" activity by non-immigrant students on campus.
In her post on X, Noem warned that the move should "serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country."The Trump administration has attempted to curtail individual visas for international students, causing confusion on university campuses across the US and leading to a wave of lawsuits.In some cases, those revocations appeared to affect foreign students who participated in political protests or have had previous criminal charges, such as driving infractions.
In a separate court case on Thursday, a federal judge in California blocked the Trump administration from cancelling the legal status of international students across the US while challenges to the policy play out in court."We came here because of what America stands for: freedom of speech, academic freedom, a vibrant intellectual community," Mr Gerdén said of his international classmates. "And now Trump is threatening all those values."
"Without the international students, Harvard is simply not Harvard anymore," he said.
Follow the twists and turns of Trump's second term with North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher's weekly"He said, 'You've got a reputation at the college that you're really good at photography'... and by chance he showed Robert my work and then suddenly at the age of 18 I was being asked to design a record sleeve [for The Cure]," he says.
That record was the band's doom-laden third album Faith. Vella would later return to create the covers for some of The Cure's most iconic records, including the 1989's Disintegration, The Head on the Door from 1985 and last year's chart-topping Songs of a Lost World.Whenever he's working on a new design, Vella says he looks for "something that just makes you tap into what they're doing and you just riff on that".
"With Robert, his lyrics are so inspiring... All you have to do is read one line quite often and suddenly you've got the start of something really great."It was this and the expansive brooding sound of Songs of a Lost World which saw Vella and Smith hit upon the design for the record, which features a stone statue head lying on its side.