BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from carrying out steep cuts to federal research funding provided to universities by the U.S. Department of Defense.
U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston issued a temporary restraining order at the behest of 12 schools including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University, as well as the Association of American Universities and two other academic trade groups.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Chris Reese)
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