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Next steps in arrest of Mahmoud Khalil: New protests as judge weighs grad's future
A New York judge is deciding what’s next for Mahmoud Khalil, who helped organize pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University in 2024. Protesters gathered outside federal court demanding his release. Khalil was taken to a detention center in Louisiana and will stay there for now, though his attorneys want him returned to New York. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.