Trump Administration Lodges New Accusations Against Mahmoud Khalil
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Trump Administration Lodges New Accusations Against Mahmoud Khalil

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When Mahmoud Khalil, who helped lead pro-Palestinian protests while a Columbia University student, was detained this month, the Trump administration argued he should be deported to help prevent the spread of antisemitism, invoking a rarely used law. Lawyers for Mr. Khalil, a legal…

Columbia Makes Concessions to Trump Amid Bid to Reclaim Federal Funds
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Columbia Makes Concessions to Trump Amid Bid to Reclaim Federal Funds

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Columbia University agreed on Friday to make changes to its protest rules, campus security policies and Middle Eastern studies department in a remarkable concession to the Trump administration, which had refused to consider restoring $400 million in federal funding without an overhaul. The…

Why Trump’s Ultimatum to Columbia Could Upend Higher Education
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Why Trump’s Ultimatum to Columbia Could Upend Higher Education

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Follow live updates on the Trump administration here. It was an obscure, 44-word demand toward the end of the Trump administration’s ultimatum to Columbia University this month ordering a dramatic overhaul of admissions and disciplinary rules. But it could prove to have consequences…

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…

Judge Says Khalil’s Deportation Case Can Be Heard in New Jersey
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Judge Says Khalil’s Deportation Case Can Be Heard in New Jersey

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A New York federal judge on Wednesday transferred the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate detained by the Trump administration this month, to New Jersey, where his lawyers will continue their efforts to seek his release. Mr. Khalil, a leader of…

Opinion | Chuck Schumer Isn’t Jewish Like the Pope Isn’t Catholic
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Opinion | Chuck Schumer Isn’t Jewish Like the Pope Isn’t Catholic

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Harvard was also the place where Schumer first saw left-wing antisemitism in action — using the cloak of anti-Zionism, as it often does today. At a 1970 campus speech by the Israeli foreign minister, Abba Eban, students in the gallery unfurled a banner…

Legal Experts Question Trump’s Authority to Cancel Columbia’s Funding
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Legal Experts Question Trump’s Authority to Cancel Columbia’s Funding

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When President Trump issued an ultimatum to Columbia University — canceling $400 million in funding and demanding an overhaul of its admissions and disciplinary rules — it launched the institution into an extraordinary crisis. According to legal scholars, it may have also violated…

How Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia Student Activist, Landed in Federal Detention
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How Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia Student Activist, Landed in Federal Detention

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Crowds of masked student protesters raging against the war in Gaza filled the Columbia University lawns last spring, while counterprotesters and journalists surrounded the tent city that had been erected there. One man stood out. He was Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student in…

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…