Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the administration of the US President Donald Trump on Monday, marking a significant escalation in ongoing tensions between the Ivy League institution and the Republican leader, who has repeatedly threatened its federal funding and pushed for political oversight of its internal affairs. The lawsuit, submitted in federal court in Massachusetts, argues that the federal government is unlawfully attempting to use funding as a tool to interfere in Harvard’s academic decisions. “This case involves the Government’s efforts to use the withholding of federal funding as leverage to gain control of academic decision making at Harvard,”...