Harvard Hit With $2 Billion Government Funding Freeze

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  The Trump administration freezes billions in funding for Harvard,

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  widening its fight with the nation's wealthiest university,

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  plus confusion in Detroit as automakers struggle to claim tariff relief on U.S. source products.

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  And Xi Jinping embarks on a global charm offensive hoping to draw contrasts with American protectionism.

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  He's offering a pitch of stability, of support for free trade,

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  so he's coming to these countries at a time when they're looking for support.

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  It's Tuesday, April 15th.

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  I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News,

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  the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

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  The Trump administration is freezing more than $2 billion in federal grant and contract funding for Harvard University after the school resisted demands to change its governance structure over campus anti-Semitism concerns.

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  An administration task force had demanded Harvard enact a mask ban and DEI programs and change classroom instruction to,

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  among other things, improve viewpoint diversity.

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  Harvard's president issued a letter yesterday rejecting those demands,

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  leading the Trump administration to announce the funding freeze hours later.

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  The government has couched the withholding of funding as an effort to uphold civil rights laws

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  while lawyers for Harvard say its demands violate the First Amendment and ignore due process.

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  This month,

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  Harvard issued $750 million in the bond market

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  that it could use to free up cash flow should it be unable to reconcile with the task force.

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  New filings by the Commerce Department show the Trump administration opened tariff investigations into pharmaceutical products and semiconductors on April 1,

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