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The federal government and a Columbia University student threatened with deportation for his role in campus protests against Israel have been sparring in court over the Trump administration’s move to ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the arrest and deportation of a legal U.S. resident, Columbia University Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil, because Rubio believes that Khalil’s presence may ...

The arrest of student activist Mahmoud Khalil has crystallized concerns over freedom of speech under the Republican leader's administration -- and fueled warnings that Trump is out to quell dissent.

When he went back to visit his alma mater, Yale Law, it struck him as “genuinely totalitarian,” he said. He called progressive politics “a language used by our new oligarchy to do two things: to rob ...

Today, GBH News reporter Sarah Betancourt gives us an inside look at the process behind her reporting of the story she broke last week about a New Hampshire green card holder who was detained at Logan ...

The Trump administration’s efforts to deport Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil is triggering concern among green-card holders in the U.S., who are suddenly ...

Make good trouble, as Congressman John Lewis used to say. Stand up and speak out! Americans want to know there’s a loud and vital Democratic opposition to Trump ...

"Secret police abducting people in the middle of the night is never a good sign for any minority," one student said ...

Hundreds of people gathered Monday evening at Philadelphia City Hall to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University who was arrested by ...

The night federal agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil on Columbia University's campus, the Palestinian activist feared he would be ...