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President Donald Trump says the United States military is postponing strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure for five days following, quote, productive conversations with Tehran.

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Here's your midday brief for Friday, March 20th.

I'm Pierre Bien-Aimé for The Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration is suing Harvard University, alleging that the school violated Jewish students' civil rights.

The suit says Harvard failed to protect its Jewish and Israeli students by ignoring hostility on campus and refusing to enforce anti-harassment rules.

It seeks to recover millions of taxpayer dollars that Harvard accepted while allegedly violating civil rights law.

Harvard says it's taken steps to address anti-Semitism on campus.

The school says the lawsuit is retaliation by the administration because of Harvard, quote, "...refusing to turn over control of the school to the government."

The Pentagon is sending three warships and around 2,500 Marines to the Middle East.

It's the second deployment of Marines to the region in the past week.

Meanwhile, Iran says U.S.

and Israeli strikes have not stopped its ability to produce missiles.

And Iran's armed forces warned that they will target the country's enemies, including officials, pilots, and soldiers, in amusement parks, resorts, and tourist centers, saying, quote, "...no place in the world will be safe for you."

And a new federal indictment alleges that several super microcomputer employees, including one of its co-founders, helped smuggle billions of dollars in high-end NVIDIA chips to China using dummy devices to deceive an American inspector.

The alleged scheme involved a Southeast Asian company that repackaged servers before shipping them to China.

Three defendants couldn't be reached for comment.

Supermicro, which wasn't named as a defendant, said it has placed two employees on leave and fired a contractor.

It also said the alleged conduct was against its policies.