Rumeysa Ozturk returned to Massachusetts on Saturday evening, eyes welling with joy and gratitude at the end of her six-week odyssey in federal custody, a case that stirred outrage over President Trump’s immigration crackdown. A flight carrying Ms. Ozturk, a Turkish citizen studying at Tufts University on a student visa, touched down at Boston Logan…
A federal judge in Vermont ordered the Trump administration on Friday to release Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University student whose sudden arrest in March led to a public outcry. Ms. Ozturk, a former Fulbright scholar, has been in detention since March 25, when she was surrounded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in masks and…
A Tufts University doctoral student who was arrested by masked federal agents in March must be returned to Vermont from a detention facility in Louisiana, a federal appellate court said on Wednesday. The decision in the case of Rumeysa Ozturk affirmed the ruling of a federal court in Vermont, which the Trump administration had appealed….
During a Tuesday hearing on the fate of two international students facing deportation, an appeals court judge asked a key question of the Trump administration. Does it believe the students’ speech is protected by the Constitution? A government lawyer, Drew Ensign, declined to discuss the issue. “Your honor, we have not taken a position on…
Dr. Alan Garber, president of Harvard, disagrees with President Trump about many things. He is fighting Mr. Trump as the federal government tries to strip Harvard of billions of dollars in research funding and its nonprofit tax status. But Dr. Garber agrees with Mr. Trump on one point. In one of the rare interviews he…
When Karl Molden, a sophomore at Harvard University from Vienna, learned that the Trump administration had abruptly restored thousands of international students’ ability to legally study in the United States, he said he did not feel reassured. After all, immigration officials have insisted that they could still terminate students’ legal status, even in the face…
A federal prosecutor in Washington has contacted The New England Journal of Medicine, considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal, with questions that suggested without evidence that it was biased against certain views and influenced by external pressures. Dr. Eric Rubin, the editor in chief of N.E.J.M., described the letter as “vaguely threatening” in an…
A federal judge in New Hampshire limited on Thursday the Trump administration’s ability to withhold federal funds from public schools that have certain diversity and equity initiatives. The judge, Landya B. McCafferty, said that the administration had not provided an adequately detailed definition of “diversity, equity and inclusion,” and that its policy threatened to restrict…
In the latest sign of deepening repression in what was once virtually the sole Arab democracy, a court in Tunisia has handed down heavy sentences to prominent opposition figures convicted on charges of conspiring against state security, the country’s official news agency said on Saturday. Rights groups and lawyers have called the charges baseless. Forty…
Mohsen Mahdawi, organizador de manifestaciones propalestinas en la Universidad de Columbia el año pasado, fue detenido el lunes por funcionarios de migración tras llegar a una cita en Vermont que él pensaba era un paso para convertirse en ciudadano estadounidense, dijeron sus abogados. Horas después, la madre, la hermana mayor y los abogados de Mahdawi…