The Trump administration is asking federal agencies to cancel contracts with Harvard University worth about $100 million. The move intensifies the president's clash with the nation's oldest and wealthiest university. The government already has canceled more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants for the Ivy League school, which has pushed back on the administration's demands for changes to several of its policies. A letter sent Tuesday from the General Services Administration directed agencies to review contracts with the university and seek alternate vendors. President Donald Trump has railed against Harvard, calling it a hotbed of liberalism and antisemitism. The school filed a lawsuit over the administration's calls for changes to the university.

Scores of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers who showed up for work Monday at its Washington headquarters have been turned away after the Trump administration stripped the aid agency of its lease. It comes even as a court temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that would have pulled all but a fraction of workers off the job worldwide. The Trump administration confirmed to The Associated Press that it had taken USAID off the lease of the building it had occupied for decades. USAID's eviction from its headquarters marks the latest in the swift dismantling of the aid agency and its programs by President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally, Elon Musk.

The Biden administration is offering federal resources to former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris for presidential transition planning for the first time. But experts suggest that both are already behind in preparing for their potential administrations. Both Harris and Trump started the process just this month, which is months later than prior transitions. Tuesday is the latest congressionally mandated date for the General Services Administration to make space available for Trump and Harris, coming three business days after the second nominating convention.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says it is unable to compile a complete and accurate accounting of gifts presented to former President …