ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul seems to have opened the door to permitting the roughly 2,000 state prison correctional officers who were fired last week to work for other law enforcement agencies in New York, something that sheriffs across the state have been asking her to do. After not ...
NEW YORK — The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Columbia University concealed ''illegal aliens'' on its campus, one of its top officials said Friday, as the Trump administration intensified its campaign to deport foreigners who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations ...
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 ...