A government lawyer asked a federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday to move the legal fight over the detention of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil to New Jersey or Louisiana, where ...

DHS agents detained Khalil, a green card-holding Palestinian activist who took part in the Gaza protests at Columbia University.

No, Mr. President, you cannot illegally arrest and detain legal US residents because of their political views or opinions,' ...

A day after at least 250 people protested at Federal Plaza the arrest and possible deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, civil rights groups in Chicago called for his release.

Mahmoud Khalil will remain detained in Louisiana until at least next week after an initial court hearing Wednesday over the ...