Shaun Robinson

1 day ago | vnews.com | Shaun Robinson

E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Photos Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles Tufts University student from Turkey, Rumeysa Ozturk, who was arrested by immigration agents while walking along a street in a Boston suburb, talks to reporters on arriving back in Boston, Saturday, May 10, 2025, a day after she was released from a Louisiana immigration detention center on the orders of a federal judge. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi) By SHAUN ROBINSON...

2 days ago | vtdigger.org | Shaun Robinson

Rümeysa Öztürk, the Turkish graduate student who spent weeks in federal immigration detention in Vermont and other states after an op-ed she co-wrote drew the ire of President Donald Trump’s administration, walked free from custody Friday. On Saturday, she arrived back in her home state of Massachusetts. Öztürk’s release came at the order of a federal judge in Vermont around midday Friday.

5 days ago | vtdigger.org | Shaun Robinson

Many Final Readers spend so much time in the Statehouse, heads buried in our work, that we don’t often stop to appreciate the building itself. But that’s not the case for the many tourists, from near and from far, who also traverse the halls under the Golden Dome each year. It got us thinking: what do these people, with eyes clear and hearts full, really think about the place? To find out, we turned to a reliable, and highly scientific, source: reviews of the building published on Google Maps.

5 days ago | vtdigger.org | Shaun Robinson

BURLINGTON — A federal judge in Vermont on Friday ordered that Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish graduate student who has spent weeks in federal immigration custody in Louisiana, be immediately released from detention. U.S. District Court Judge William K. Sessions III’s decision came after he heard several hours of arguments in a Burlington courtroom both from attorneys representing Öztürk, who attends Tufts University, as well as a prosecutor representing the federal government.

1 week ago | vtdigger.org | Shaun Robinson

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to comply with a lower court’s ruling in Vermont last month to transfer Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish graduate student, to federal immigration custody in the state.