The Supreme Court on Friday turned down President Trump's appeal seeking to fire an agency official. Instead, the justices said they would weigh in on the matter only after a judge rules next week on whether the firing was legal.

Harvard University has hired another law firm to help it navigate a U.S. House investigation into its response to claims of pervasive antisemitism on campus, weeks after mounting criticism helped spur the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay.

A divided Supreme Court on Friday put off ruling on the Trump administration’s request to allow the president to remove the leader of an independent government watchdog agency until at least after a lower-court hearing next week.