What We Know About the Detentions of Student Protesters
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What We Know About the Detentions of Student Protesters

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration is trying to deport pro-Palestinian students and academics who are legally in the United States, a new front in its clash with elite schools over what it says is their failure to combat antisemitism. The White House asserts that these…

As Musk Makes Some Headway in India, He Is Also Suing Its Government
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As Musk Makes Some Headway in India, He Is Also Suing Its Government

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In recent weeks, Elon Musk has finally seemed to make some inroads in India, a potentially huge market whose government has frustrated him with its trade barriers. Tesla appears to be preparing another attempt to sell cars in the country, and Starlink, his…

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE
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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines An international student in a graduate program at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, according to the university’s president and an attorney representing the student. The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen, had a valid…

Columbia University’s Concessions to Trump Seen as a Watershed
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Columbia University’s Concessions to Trump Seen as a Watershed

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Many professors saw it as surrender, a reward to the Trump administration’s heavy hand. Conservative critics of academia celebrated it as an overdue, righteous reset by an Ivy League university. Columbia University’s concession on Friday to a roster of government demands as it…

Trump’s Deportation Agenda Expands to Legal Immigrants and Tourists
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Trump’s Deportation Agenda Expands to Legal Immigrants and Tourists

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines U.S. immigration agents wearing masks arrested a Georgetown University academic outside his home in Virginia. They detained two German tourists for weeks when they tried to enter the country legally through the southern border. They knocked on doors at Columbia University apartments, searching…

How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It
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How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power…

How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It
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Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power…

Jury Finds Greenpeace Liable for More Than 0 Million in Damages
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Jury Finds Greenpeace Liable for More Than $660 Million in Damages

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A North Dakota jury on Wednesday awarded damages totaling more than $660 million to the Texas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer, which had sued Greenpeace over its role in protests nearly a decade ago against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The verdict was a major…

Opinion | Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Mahmoud Khalil
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Opinion | Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Mahmoud Khalil

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Columbia University is now the epicenter of the American culture war. The Trump administration is targeting a former Columbia student — and the university itself — as a test case for its new authoritarian regime. The story of Columbia isn’t simply about Mahmoud…

Opinion | Three Opinion Writers Assess the Damage of Trump’s First 50 Days
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Opinion | Three Opinion Writers Assess the Damage of Trump’s First 50 Days

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg and contributing Opinion writer Frank Bruni join Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, at the halfway mark of President Trump’s first 100 days in office, to reflect on how he is changing the country. Below is an edited, condensed…