Education Harvard and White House move toward potential landmark settlement The talks could still collapse, as President Donald Trump and senior Harvard officials need to sign off on the terms of the deal. A tour group at the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass., May 30, 2025. Sophie Park/The New York Times Harvard University and the Trump administration are nearing a potentially landmark legal settlement that would see Harvard agree to spend $500 million in exchange for the restoration of billions of dollars in federal research funding, according to four people familiar with the deliberations. Negotiators for the White House...