5 d. ago Columbia should have said, ‘see you in court,’ not ‘yes, Mr President.’ | Margaret Sullivan

Institutions must resist thuggish bullying. There is no satisfying Trump. He will move the goalposts again and againSince early 2024, I’ve been running a journalism ethics center at Columbia University.So perhaps it’s no surprise that I see the university’s capitulation to Trump both in terms of journalism and ethics.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Detained Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil appears in immigration case

Detained Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil has appeared briefly in immigration court at a remote Louisiana detention center

Culture

1 week ago Detained Columbia University student disputes government's 'bedbugs' claim in court papers

A detained Columbia University student says the subject of bedbugs never arose after he was arrested and flown to a Louisiana detention center by authorities who now say bedbugs helped force the long journey that made him fear he was being immediately deported

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1 week ago More than half of US adults don't want legal betting on college sports in their state: AP

Most U.S. adults think betting on professional sports should be legal but they don’t feel the same way about college sports, according to a new AP-NORC survey

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2 w. ago South Carolina schedules its fifth execution in seven months

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in South Carolina since the state resumed the death penalty in September

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2 w. ago Federal court hearing set in Columbia student's detainment over pro

A Manhattan federal court hearing is scheduled Wednesday in a suit challenging the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student that the Trump Administration is trying to deport over his visible role in pro-Palestinian protests at the New York City university last year

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2 w. ago Violent and sudden. What a firing squad execution looked like through my eyes

An Associated Press journalist has served as a media eyewitness to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday in South Carolina

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2 w. ago A South Carolina man executed by firing squad is the first US prisoner killed this way in 15 years

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method

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4 w. ago South Carolina man set to face a firing squad seeks postponement, questioning execution procedures

A South Carolina man scheduled to face a firing squad next week is asking that his execution be postponed

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