Feds rescind visa restrictions for international students

Federal government officials agreed to rescind the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement's new rules for international students that roiled colleges and universities this week. Harvard University and MIT earlier this month filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the rules. Hundreds of higher education institutions, including Duke University, and associations across the U.S. joined them in opposing the new policies. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs said in a minutes-long…