A federal judge ruled Monday it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants, adding that the cuts raise serious questions about racial discrimination. U.S. District Judge William Young in Massachusetts said the administration's process was “arbitrary and capricious” and that it did not

A federal judge ruled directives from the Trump administration that led to the cancellations of research grants from the NIH were "void" and "illegal."

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore hundreds of scientific research grants terminated by the National Institutes of Health, saying the funding cancellations were illegal and discriminatory, a lawyer in the case said.