Khalil said in a declaration filed in Manhattan federal court that while he was held overnight at a detention center in New Jersey, “I did not hear anyone mention bedbugs.”

Burke led protests in May 1936, including an anti-Nazi picket and a mock book burning. The protests were a response to the university accepting an invitation to participate in Hei

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 at the New York college last year.

Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil declared himself a “political prisoner” in an open letter released Tuesday from the Louisiana immigration detention facility where

Mahmoud Khalil speaks to members of media about the Revolt for Rafah encampment at Columbia University during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, in New York City,