BOSTON, May 6 (Reuters) - Major U.S. universities have filed a lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump's administration from carrying out steep cuts to federal research funding provided to academic institutions by the National Science Foundation.

 

The lawsuit  ...took aim at a decision NSF announced on Friday to cap reimbursement for indirect research costs at 15%, an action that mirrored funding cuts the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Department of Energy attempted that judges have so far blocked.

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