Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old from the West Bank who has lived in New Jersey since 2016, had been held in a U.S. immigration detention center in Texas since last March.

Kordia was arrested in March 2025 for overstaying her student visa and had been previously arrested during pro-Palestinian ...

NEW YORK — Bank of America Corp. has agreed to settle a proposed class action lawsuit on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein victims who accused the bank of aiding in the ...

Hochul has repeatedly used a state Supreme Court ruling to push the state Legislature for changes to Climate Act.

Federal officials say Leqaa Kordia overstayed her student visa. Her lawyer says she was targeted for pro-Palestinian activism ...

Columbia City Council heard changes to short-term rentals in efforts to simplify the process for applicants and employees.

Leqaa Kordia of Paterson was released from immigration detention Monday after a judge set bond and federal authorities ...

Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman detained by immigration authorities for over a year after she was arrested at a protest at Columbia University amid Israel’s war in Gaza in 2024, has been released ...

Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected heat in recent years ...

Immigration: The Supreme Court declined to immediately allow the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants, saying on Monday it ...

Federal immigration authorities arrested a Columbia University student early Thursday, triggering protests on campus and allegations that agents gained entry to the university-owned residence by ...

A steadily climbing list of academics have committed to boycott Columbia University and Barnard College over the schools’ decisions to punish students and faculty who speak against Israel’s ...