The Columbia student arrested by ICE agents inside her dorm was released hours later following an intervention from President Donald Trump, who was apparently acting at the behest of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who met with him at the White House earlier in the afternoon. Ellie Aghayeva, an Azerbaijani undergraduate student of neuroscience and political science, […]

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President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met in Washington on Thursday to discuss building more housing in the city, the mayor said Thursday.  The meeting between the two was not publicized on the president’s or the mayor’s schedule in advance. “I had a productive meeting with President Trump this afternoon,” Mamdani […]

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More than a decade after a federal judge ruled that the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices violated the Constitution, the agency is still not following the law according to a new report by a court-appointed monitor. “This is not the year-end report that I had hoped to submit,” wrote the monitor, Mylan Denerstein, who […]

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Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security apparently lied their way into a Columbia university dormitory and arrested a student there, the university’s acting president Claire Shipman said in a statement Thursday morning. The agents entered the housing on West 122nd St. at around 6:30 a.m., Shipman said. “Our understanding at this time is […]

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Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security apparently lied their way into a Columbia University dormitory and arrested a student there, the university’s acting president Claire Shipman said in a statement Thursday morning. The agents entered her campus housing in Morningside Heights at around 6:30 a.m., Shipman said. “Our understanding at this time is […]

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