Judge to hear arguments over former Columbia student who Trump wants deported

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Lawyers for an activist who led pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University are expected to face off Wednesday in court with federal officials who want him deported. A federal judge on Monday temporarily halted Mahmoud Khalil’s removal, barring the government from deporting him before Wednesday’s hearing in New York. Khalil was arrested by federal immigration authorities

USAID Staff Ordered to Destroy Records, Court Filing Says

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The White House said the instruction was sent only to about three dozen employees, and that the documents that were being destroyed were old. Some U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees have received instruction to empty classified safes and destroy agency records, according to a court filing on March 11 by employee unions. The

How a Brown University Professor Helped Drive Anti-Israel Materials Into K-12 Schools

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In 2011, Brown University’s Choices Program, which develops curriculum on history and current issues for K-12 schools in all 50 states, taught high school students “of the historic Jewish ties to the land that is now Israel.” In 2015, anti-Israel academic Beshara Doumani, then a founding director of Brown’s Center for Middle East Studies, began

Upset in Greenland parliamentary elections as center-right party wins

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Nuuk, Greenland — The center-right Demokraatit Party won the most votes in Greenland’s parliamentary elections, a surprise result as the territory went to the polls in the shadow of President Trump’s stated goal of taking control of the island one way or another. Both Demokraatit – the Democrats – and the second place party, Naleraq