Harvard University will urge a federal judge on Monday to order U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to restore about $2.5 billion in canceled federal grants and cease efforts to cut off research funding to the prestigious Ivy League school.

A federal judge will hear arguments today in Harvard's lawsuit over the Trump administration's cuts to the university's research funding. The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge New York to release grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Harvard University will be back in court Monday for a major hearing in its funding fight case against the Trump administration, the next step in a battle over restoring more than $2 billion in federal funding for research frozen by the White House this spring.