NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday granted Harvard University's emergency request to block, for now, the Trump administration's effort to ban international students from its campus,

A federal judge has blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's proclamation restricting new internation students to Harvard University. The ruling prevents enforcement while the case proceeds, and also extends protection for Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification.

A group of 18 leading US research universities, including Princeton, MIT, Caltech and Johns Hopkins, asked a federal judge for permission to file legal arguments in support of Harvard University in its high-stakes showdown with the Trump administration over more than $2 billion in frozen grant money.