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Judges bring Trump's sweeping plan to deport foreign students to a standstill
President Trump’s sweeping bid to deport foreign students who have condemned the war in Gaza has been brought to a standstill ...
Shadi Bartsch: Committing to the Chicago Principles of free speech is the only way forward for higher education
It’s clear that we need to observe the Chicago Principles of free expression if we are to maintain our universities as places ...
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Covering their faces and no arrest warrants
The first time we saw it, for many of us the images were startling: the videotaped arrest in Somerville of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk last March outside her home.  Wearing black clothes and ...
US halts new student visa interviews amid plans for social media screening
The US has paused new student visa interviews worldwide as it prepares to expand social media screening for international ...
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These students protested the Gaza war. Trump's deportation threat didn't silence them
NPR spoke with two international students about their decision to continue speaking out despite the government's aggressive ...
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Federal judge in Vermont hears conditions for formerly detained Tufts students’ release
Rümeysa Öztürk’s lawyers argue that some conditions risk criminalizing otherwise legal actions, compounding First Amendment violations.
A Baker-world battle begins
NEW CANDIDATE DROPPED — It’s official: Brian Shortsleeve, a venture capitalist and Marine veteran who former Gov. Charlie Baker once tapped to untangle the MBTA’s budget mess, is running for governor, ...
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Timeline of Rümeysa Öztürk’s detention, subsequent activism and judicial proceedings
Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on the evening of March 25 on her way to an Iftar dinner. The Tufts community and local residents ...
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Pressley warns ‘this could be anyone’ upon Rümeysa Öztürk’s return to Boston
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), alongside Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), welcomed Tufts University Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk back to Boston after she was detained for nearly two months over a ...
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Warning of Grave Threat to Free Speech, Judge Frees Rümeysa Öztürk
Rümeysa Öztürk, one of several pro-Palestine scholars kidnapped and imprisoned by the Trump administration under its dubious interpretation of an 18th-century law and a Cold War-era national ...
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Tufts student speaks at Logan Airport after returning from ICE detention in Louisiana
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk and members of her legal team spoke at Boston Logan Airport on Saturday evening, after they arrived home from an Immigration and ...
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Rümeysa Öztürk comes home, speaks at press conference in Boston
Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk returned to Massachusetts on Saturday and spoke publicly to a crowd of reporters at Boston Logan International Airport following her release from Immigration and ...