Columbia University

The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil. The memo obtained by The Associated Press does not allege criminal conduct by Khalil but cites a legal provision that gives the government authority to deport people whose presence in the U.S....

Khalil’s March arrest was the first in a growing number of attempted deportations against foreign-born students who expressed criticism of Israel.

A Manhattan federal judge says Columbia University must give detained activist Mahmoud Khalil and other students 30 days’ notice before handing over any more documents to Congress as it investigates antisemitism on college campuses.

A federal judge ruled the legal battle over Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation should continue to play out in New Jersey, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to transfer the Columbia University protester’s case to Louisiana.

In a high-level deportation fight in Newark, the Trump administration has urged a federal judge to move the case of Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana. The Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist is asking to be freed from a Louisiana detention center, but his lawyers want a New Jersey judge to decide. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

Columbia University said Friday its interim president, Katrina A. Armstrong, is stepping aside, a week after the university struck a deal with the Trump administration to negotiate its federal funding, NBC News reported.

Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student the Trump administration is trying to expel from the U.S. because of his role in campus protests against Israel, appeared on Friday before a judge in New Jersey to debate where his legal fight to be released from federal custody should play out. The government wants the case moved to Louisiana, where...

Tracie Strahan reporting on Khalil hearing focuses on moving case to Louisiana.

The Trump administration is facing a lawsuit from two faculty unions on its decision to pull $400 million over Columbia’s handling of student protests. The groups say the decision impacts more than just jobs. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

A Columbia University student who faces potential deportation for her involvement in a pro-Palestinian protest cannot be detained by immigration officials for now as she fights the Trump administration in court, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said in Manhattan court that the government had not laid out enough facts about its claims against...

Federal prosecutors quietly filed more charges against Mahmoud Khalil, in an attempt to seemingly circumvent the first amendment debate.

The Trump administration recently pulled $400 million in funding over how the university handled protests against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon says Columbia University is “on the right track” to recover federal funding frozen by the Trump administration.

Columbia University is conceding to the Trump administration’s demands to step up efforts to crackdown on anti-Israel protests on campus and reform its admissions process in order to hold onto millions of dollars in federal funding. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Columbia University agreed to implement a suite of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.

Detained Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil appeared briefly Friday in immigration court at a remote Louisiana detention center as his lawyers fight in multiple venues to try to free him.

The deportation case against Mahmoud Khalil is being moved to New Jersey. Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident with a green card, has been held in a detention facility in Louisiana for almost two weeks, and has not been charged with any crime. The Trump administration has claimed, without evidence, Khalil led activities aligned with Hamas and spread propaganda during pro-Palestinian...

Confronted with huge cuts to its federal funding, Columbia University’s leaders face a grim decision: They can yield to the Trump administration’s demands over allegations of antisemitism — ceding extraordinary control to the federal government — or they can fight back, potentially risking even more debilitating cuts in an escalating clash.

A Columbia University student activist who was detained by the U.S. government over his participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations has the right to challenge the legality of his detention, but the case should be heard in New Jersey, rather than in New York or Louisiana, a judge ruled Wednesday. Mahmoud Khalil, 30, a legal U.S. resident with no criminal record,...

Mahmoud Khalil said he is being targeted as part of an effort to repress Palestinian voices in a letter dictated from a Louisiana immigration center.