Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer maintained on Sunday that he will not step down, despite Democrats’ growing anger at party leadership’s lack of urgency in the face of blatant authoritarianism. The longtime New York senator recently received swift backlash from […]
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Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil has shared a letter on Tuesday from the immigration detention center where federal agents are currently holding him for protesting in favor of Palestinian rights ― calling himself “a political prisoner” of the United States
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Attorneys for detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil have asked a judge to immediately release the green-card holder while his case makes its way through court — and to block the Trump administration from weaponizing immigration law in order to similarly
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One week after federal agents abducted Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil for leading last year’s student protests at Columbia University ― and sparking nationwide anger over free speech rights ― Secretary of State Marco Rubio still refuses to say whether the
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NEW YORK CITY ― Attorneys representing Mahmoud Khalil are fighting to release the prominent Palestinian activist from detention, after federal agents arrested the green card holder for peacefully leading anti-war student protests last year on Columbia University’s campus. Lawyers for
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More than a dozen progressive lawmakers have signed on to a letter demanding the Trump administration release Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil from detention, after he was unlawfully taken by agents for helping lead anti-war student protests on Columbia University’s campus
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President Donald Trump confirmed Monday that federal immigration agents arrested and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent Columbia University graduate who was taken this weekend — despite being a permanent legal resident of the United States — for
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Students and activists from multiple faiths are sounding the alarm over the Trump administration and lawmakers’ efforts to silence dissent on college campuses over issues like Palestinian rights — accusing officials of using allegations of antisemitism as a pretext to
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Republican lawmakers and officials, some of whom are otherwise vocal in their opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin, continue to avoid condemning President Donald Trump’s recent hostile rhetoric toward Ukraine and the besieged country’s leader. Over the past week, the
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The family of a Turkish American activist who was killed by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank is amplifying their months-long demand for an independent, U.S.-led investigation into her death — this time, in the U.S. capital. Ayşenur
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