NEW YORK — Demonstrators from a Jewish group filled the lobby of Trump Tower on Thursday to denounce the immigration arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist who helped lead protests against Israel at Columbia University. The demonstrators from Jewish Voice for Peace wore red ...
NEW YORK — Columbia University says it has expelled or suspended some students who took over a campus building during pro-Palestinian protests last spring, and had temporarily revoked the diplomas of some students who have since graduated. In a campus-wide email sent Thursday, the ...
DENVER — When President Donald Trump gave his joint address to Congress last week, he boasted that in his first few weeks back in the White House he had ''brought free speech back to America.'' But First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The White House complained Tuesday that Columbia University is refusing to help federal agents find people being sought as part of the government’s effort to deport participants in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, as the administration continued to punish the school by ...
There’s another deal on the table to bring the striking corrections officers at New York prisons back to work — and the union that represents those officers is trying to kill it. On Thursday, leadership at the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision began discussing a ...
NEW YORK — Lindsey Boylan helped drive Andrew Cuomo from office in 2021 when the former aide came forward as the first woman to accuse the governor of sexual harassment. At the time she had allies in high places: Every New York Democrat in Congress, the state’s legislative leaders and ...