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6 days ago | 
pressdemocrat.com | Campbell Robertson |Halina Bennet |Jill Cowan
The January vote was unanimous. Huntington Beach, California, was “a non-sanctuary city for illegal immigration,” its City Council declared.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Campbell Robertson |Halina Bennet |Jill Cowan
Cities and counties that have strongly backed the administration's immigration crackdown nonetheless found themselves on a lengthy list of locales being warned to change their policies. The January vote was unanimous. Huntington Beach, Calif., was "a non-sanctuary city for illegal immigration," its City Council declared.
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3 weeks ago | 
sun-sentinel.com | Charles Ballaro |Halina Bennet |Jacey Fortin
As a boy growing up in a suburb of Chicago, the future Pope Leo XIV did not pretend to be a cowboy or a bank robber. Instead, he liked to play priest, according to his eldest brother, Louis Prevost. “We teased him a lot about, ‘Na na na, you’re gonna be the pope,’” Prevost, 73, recalled in an interview Friday at his home in Port Charlotte, Florida. But it came as a bit of a shock when Robert Francis Prevost — Rob to his family — was in fact elected to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.
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1 month ago | 
infobae.com | Vimal Patel |Miriam Jordan |Halina Bennet
Foreign Students (in US)Colleges and UniversitiesDeportationPro-Palestinian Campus Protests (2023- )Freedom of Speech and ExpressionAmerican Civil Liberties UnionImmigration and Customs Enforcement (US)State DepartmentRubio, MarcoUnited StatesVisasDecenas de centros educativos, entre ellos la Universidad de California y Harvard, dijeron que el gobierno de Trump canceló visados a sus alumnos en los últimos días. Para muchos, las razones no están claras.
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2 months ago | 
straitstimes.com | Vimal Patel |Miriam Jordan |Halina Bennet
At least 147 international students were abruptly stripped of their ability to stay in the United States in recent days, according to universities and media reports, sowing fear among students and confusion at schools scrambling to help students facing detention and possible deportation.
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2 months ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Vimal Patel |Miriam Jordan |Halina Bennet
Share At least 147 international students were abruptly stripped of their ability to stay in the United States in recent days, according to universities and media reports, sowing fear among students and confusion at schools scrambling to help students facing detention and possible deportation.The moves targeted students at a wide range of universities, from private institutions like Harvard and Stanford to public ones like the University of Texas at Austin and Minnesota State...
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Vimal Patel |Miriam Jordan |Halina Bennet
Ms. Whittenburg said that one of her clients was an Indian national who got a DUI when he was studying in the United States more than a decade ago. When he applied for a second student visa more recently, he disclosed the charge to U.S. consular authorities in his home country. They ultimately granted him the visa to pursue further studies in the United States.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Halina Bennet
6 hours agoSome students at Harvard are playing catch-up on a year-long remedial math course aimed at rectifying a "lack of foundational" skills believed to be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, but some, like New York Post opinion columnist Rikki Schlott, say scaling back or eliminating standardized …
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Halina Bennet
During the meeting, Ms. Chowdhury joined the protesters across the room from the assembly, a move that Ms. Peterson said encouraged verbal attacks and threatening language. She said that one assembly member was spat on by a protester. The impeachment was "abhorrent," said Kaitlin Karmen, a member of the Shut It Down Party who resigned from the student assembly after the vote.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Halina Bennet
In a tense, simmering meeting, University of Michigan's student government restored funding on Tuesday night for campus activities and clubs, which had been paused for months in protest of the war in Gaza. Fulfilling their campaign promise, the activists moved immediately to withhold around $1.3 million in annual funding for campus activities until the university committed to divest from companies aiding Israel's war in Gaza.
