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U.S. universities are under fire after federal investigators uncovered that dozens of top schools—including Harvard, Stanford, and UC Berkeley—received hundreds of millions in foreign funding from entities later slapped with U.S. sanctions, with Chinese sources alone contributing over $300 million. The Education Department’s recent audit revealed $27 million in suspicious foreign grants in just the second half of 2025 alone. In response, the State Department is now demanding universities tighten their foreign funding oversight, citing national security risks and calling for stricter compliance with disclosure rules to prevent sensitive research from falling into the wrong hands.

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