U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing to investigate whether Harvard University violated federal sanctions, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by the newspaper.

Earlier this week, Melissa Cornejo, a member of the state council of the ruling Morena party in Jalisco, shared a photo to the X social media site of a man holding up a Mexican flag in front of a burnt-out vehicle in Los Angeles, where protests against immigration raids have been held in recent days.

The US government had launched a multi-pronged attack against the oldest and wealthiest university in the country earlier this year --- freezing billions of dollars in grants and other funding and proposing to end its tax-exempt status.

Rubio is pushing to investigate if Harvard violated sanctions by collaborating on a health insurance conference in China that may have included officials blacklisted by the US, the report said.

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is seeking an investigation into whether Harvard University violated federal sanctions by participating in a health insurance

The State Department has instructed U.S. embassies and consulates not to revoke visas previously issued to people from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries now under President Donald Trump’s new travel ban,

The State Department was pressing ahead with a reorganization that will see the elimination of the positions of more than 3,400 U.S.-based staff in bureaus covering Asia and the Middle East and across seven divisions.