By Tramesh 
Where Things Stand
Smartphone reprieve: The Trump administering appear a aphorism backward Friday night that appeared to absolved smartphones, computers, semiconductors and added electronics from best of the president’s backbreaking tariffs on China, giving tech companies like Apple and Dell a breach from levies that threatened to alter their businesses and access prices for consumers.
Mideast broadcaster: A U.S.-funded TV anchorperson set up afterwards the Sept. 11 attacks to accompany account with an American angle to Middle Eastern and North African countries said it had been affected to lay off 90 percent of its agents because of abysmal cuts by the Trump administration.
Harvard funding: Two groups apery Harvard advisers accept sued the Trump administration, adage that its blackmail to cut billions in federal allotment for the university violates chargeless accent and added First Amendment rights. The accusation by the American Association of University Advisers and the Harvard adroitness affiliate of the accumulation follows the Trump administration’s advertisement beforehand this ages that it was reviewing about $9billion in federal allotment that Harvard receives.
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