President Donald Trump on Monday blasted the judge presiding over Harvard University’s case against the Trump administration, calling her “a TOTAL DISASTER.”

District Judge Allison Burroughs hasn't issued a ruling yet on Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration.

A federal judge on Monday challenged the Trump administration's reasons for slashing billions of dollars in federal funding to Harvard University, triggering a furious response from the president.Both Harvard and the American Association of University Professors brought cases against the Trump administration's measures which were combined and heard Monday.

The Trump administration has asked to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell to discuss the Jeffrey Epstein case. Todd Blanche, the US deputy attorney general, said the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the FBI had reached out to the British socialite and former girlfriend of the paedophile financier,

The man convicted in the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz was awarded a new trial Monday as a federal appeals court overturned the guilty verdict in one of the nation’s most notorious missing child cases.

Pedro Hernandez was sentenced to 25 years after confessing to kidnapping and killing Patz in New York City, in notorious 1979 child disappearance case.