Funding fight: The Trump administration has frozen more than $3 billion in federal funding to the university, and Mr. Trump has said he would like to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status. This week the administration said it would also cancel the federal government’s remaining contracts with Harvard, worth an estimated $100 million.

The European Union has agreed to fast-track trade talks with the US in a bid to avoid President Trump's 50% tariffs — which, in an about-face, he announced would be delayed until July 9. "This is a positive event,

The House passed the “Big Beautiful Bill Act” in the wee hours of Thursday after more than seven hours of debate on the floor — and that doesn’t include the nearly 22-hour hearing beforehand that lasted the entirety of Wednesday.

M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The Times. They won a George Polk Award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the author of 11 books, including “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia,” which won the National Book Award in 2017.