Officials say eight children at a church near Harvard University where a French youth choir was holding a concert suffered seizure-like symptoms and were taken to hospitals.

Harvard has faced mounting sanctions and scrutiny from Washington since rejecting demands from a federal antisemitism task force in April.

Kseniia Petrova’s future has hung in the balance since she allegedly failed to declare frog embryos that she was bringing back from France for research.

“They’ve realized that they can take a bit of a step further, that they can advance their policy priorities through those levers they have through the state university system,” said Preston Cooper, a senior fellow who studies higher education policy at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

Judging by the allegations in a lawsuit filed against Harvard College by a former MBA student at Harvard Business School, the university deserves all the angst and harassment it is getting from the Trump Administration.

Burroughs, 64, a Boston native, was appointed to the federal bench in 2014 by President Barack Obama. Since then, she's overseen high profile cases, including Trump's 2017 Muslim travel ban and the Harvard admissions lawsuit.

Harvard University has appeared in federal court, challenging $2.6 billion in funding cuts by the Trump administration.

Legal analysts say Harvard has a strong case in arguing that the U.S. government improperly cut $2.2 billion in federal funding from the Ivy League school. The federal district judge presiding over a key hearing Monday appeared skeptical of the government’s arguments.