After strike on Iran, Trump focuses on his megabill

A federal judge is prohibiting the Trump administration from revoking Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students.

In the latest victory for Harvard in its legal battle with the Trump administration, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs entered a preliminary injunction on Friday afternoon that blocks the revocation of Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, which allows the school to enroll international students.

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security abruptly tried to revoke the school’s certification before walking back the policy. Judge Burroughs ordered the Department of Homeland Security to “restore every visa holder and applicant” who would have been granted their visas absent the sudden policy change.

Judge Burroughs had issued a series of temporary orders blocking the Trump administration from limiting Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, though her decision still allows the Department of Homeland Security to try the lengthy administrative avenue to limiting international students at Harvard.

-ABC News Peter Charalambous

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Friday morning to again make unverified claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent. He called for a special prosecutor.

"The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING," Trump claimed without giving more details. "A Special Prosecutor must be appointed. This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America!"

There has been no evidence that the 2020 election was filled with fraud following numerous investigations, audits and other reviews over the last four and a half years.

An Associated Press investigation found fewer than 475 cases of voter fraud in six battleground states during the 2020 presidential election -- a number far too little to have make any different in the outcome of that election.

Vice President JD Vance will head to Los Angeles Friday, nearly two weeks after the president ordered the National Guard and the Marines to address the protests against ICE.

Vance, a former Marine, will tour a federal command facility, meet with leadership and Marines before giving remarks, according to his office.

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie

A federal appeals court has ruled President Donald Trump "likely acted within his authority" in federalizing the California National Guard amid protests over immigration raids earlier this month -- indefinitely blocking a lower court order that would have returned control of the guard to the governor.

The three-judge panel disagreed with the Trump administration that president's decision was completely unreviewable by the courts, but concluded the president likely acted lawfully by invoking a section of the U.S. Code on Armed Services that authorizes federalization of the National Guard when “the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.”

The judges said Trump had a basis for federalizing the guard, citing acts of violence during the protests.

"The undisputed facts demonstrate that before the deployment of the National Guard, protesters 'pinned down' several federal officers and threw 'concrete chunks, bottles of liquid, and other objects' at the officers," the judges wrote in the order. "Protesters also damaged federal buildings and caused the closure of at least one federal building … The federal government’s interest in preventing incidents like these is significant."

The judges said the law invoked by Trump does not require the president to obtain a governor's consent and concluded "Governor (Gavin) Newsom had no power to veto or countermand the President’s order."

The appeals court order puts on hold an order by a lower court judge, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, who called Trump's action calling up the guard "illegal" and ordered control of the guard turned over to Newsom. The Trump administration immediately appealed that ruling and will continue to retain control of the guard as the case makes it way through the courts.