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As agents raided Khalil’s apartment, Columbia put out a statement addressing the presence of agents in the vicinity of the campus, and stated its intention not to cooperate with ICE’s actions except where required by law.

“Consistent with our longstanding practice and the practice of cities and institutions throughout the country, law enforcement must have a judicial warrant to enter non-public university areas, including university buildings,” the statement read in part.

“Columbia is committed to complying with all legal obligations and supporting our student body and campus community.”

The coalition of 116 student groups at the Ivy League school — who call themselves “Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization” — also led the charge in the violent raid of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall last April.

Local and state leaders, including Gov. Kathy Hochul condemned the protests, calling on school officials to enforce disciplinary codes and impose “swift actions” to punish wrongdoers, a source told The Post at the time.

Khalil told a Post reporter during September’s raucous protests that anti-Israel student organizers were undeterred, and promised to ramp up their actions, including establishing future encampments.

“As long as Columbia continues to invest and to benefit from Israeli apartheid, the students will continue to resist,” Khalil said.

“Not only protests and encampments, the limit is the sky.”

Last April, during the height of the encampment protests, Khalil told the Columbia Daily Spectator that he was not personally participating in the protests over concerns he would lose his student visa — which allowed him to remain in the US.

He was briefly suspended that month, but the suspension was reversed the very next day, he told BBC at the time.

“[They said] that after reviewing the evidence, they don’t have any evidence to suspend,” he said.

Khymani James, 20, a prominent spokesperson for the Hamas-cheering radical collective led by Khalil, was banned from campus in the wake of the April protests after a video surfaced of them expressing violent and hateful rhetoric towards Jews.

"I think the right question to ask is: did this executive order make it more likely that in the future, bitcoin will be a geopolitically important currency or asset? Will other governments look to follow the U.S.'s lead and build their own strategic reserve? And to me, the answer to that is emphatically yes," Hougan said.

"The reason that questions matters is that's the question that determines if bitcoin is $80,000 a coin or $1 million a coin."

Hougan called the decline in crypto prices a "short-term setback."

"I think the market will soon find its footing and realize that actually this is incredibly bullish long term for this asset and for crypto as a whole," he said.

Zelenskyy Visits Saudi Arabia Before Key US Talks
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets Saudi Crown Prince ahead of U.S. talks, as Ukraine faces pressure for peace talks with Russia.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy travels to Saudi Arabia to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday, ahead of talks between Ukrainian and U.S. officials on ending the war with Russia at an increasingly precarious moment for Kyiv.

The United States, once Ukraine's main ally, has upended its wartime policies in its stated pursuit of a rapid end to the fighting, engaging directly with Moscow while cutting off military assistance and intelligence sharing for Kyiv.

Zelenskyy is expected to meet the Saudi crown prince, whose country has played various mediating roles since Russia's 2022 invasion, including brokering prisoner exchanges and hosting talks between Russia and the United States last month.

Trump said on Sunday that he expected good results out of the upcoming talks, adding that the United States had "just about" ended a suspension of intelligence sharing with Kyiv.

Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff, who has been arranging the talks, has said the idea is to "get down a framework for a peace agreement and an initial ceasefire as well."

Zelenskyy has called for a truce in the air and at sea, as well as a prisoner exchange, in what he says could be a test of Russia's commitment to ending the war.

Moscow has rejected the idea of a temporary truce, which has also been proposed by Britain and France, saying it was a bid to buy time for Kyiv and prevent its military collapse.

The MRC report assessed how Wikipedia categorizes news sources, finding that conservative outlets are labeled as "generally unreliable" or effectively blacklisted.

Sanger recently told Fox News that Wikipedia has abandoned its neutrality policy, which insists content is "represented fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias."

"Neutrality means you can't tell what position a person takes on the topic," he said. "Any of the controversial issues that the topic of the article raises, you can't tell what position they take on them. Almost no Wikipedia articles these days rise to that level."

Earlier last month, Sanger wrote a blog entry in which he detailed his personal journey from skepticism to Christianity.

Before he was sentenced in November in U.S. District Court in Boston, Teixeira showed little emotion as he stood in court and apologized for his actions. The 22-year-old previously admitted he illegally collected some of the nation's most sensitive secrets and shared them with other users on the social media platform Discord.

"I wanted to say I'm sorry for all the harm that I brought and caused," Teixeira said. "I understand all the responsibility and consequences fall upon my shoulders alone and accept whatever that will bring."

Afterward, Teixeira hugged one of his attorneys, looked toward his family and smiled before being led from court. His family left without commenting to reporters, but his mother and others submitted letters to the court seeking leniency.

Teixeira, of North Dighton, Massachusetts, was part of the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts. He worked as a cyber transport systems specialist, which is essentially an information technology specialist responsible for military communications networks. He remains in the Air National Guard in an unpaid status, an Air Force official said.

Authorities said he first typed out classified documents he accessed and then began sharing photographs of files that bore SECRET and TOP SECRET markings.

Prosecutors also said he tried to cover his tracks before his arrest. Authorities found a smashed tablet, laptop and an Xbox gaming console in a dumpster at his house.

A few hours later, Musk responded: "Tough, but necessary. Good working with you. The important parts of USAID should always have been with Dept of State."

His comments came after the New York Times reported that he and Musk clashed during a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, with Musk accusing the top U.S. diplomat of not carrying out deep enough staff cuts at the State Department.

At the meeting, Trump told his Cabinet heads that they, not Musk, have the final say on staffing and policy at their agencies, Reuters reported. Trump denied the NYT report on Friday when asked about it by reporters.

Trump, Musk and Rubio had dinner on Saturday evening at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Sunday.

Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a longtime Trump supporter, said Friday that the EU cannot afford to finance Ukraine's military efforts as U.S. financial aid is no longer guaranteed. He did so after the leaders of 26 EU countries signed a statement voicing support for Ukraine without Hungary.

Orban said Saturday that his country and the U.S. will agree on an economic cooperation package that will help the Hungarian economy and could offset the effect of possible U.S. tariffs.

Other elements of the agreement will help Hungary to "offset, at a national economic level, the losses caused by U.S. tariffs imposed on Europe and will provide compensation both in monetary and real economic terms."

According to John Mercer, the head of global research at Coresight, a retail data firm, discretionary spending in middle markets for goods such as apparel, home goods, and accessories are among the hardest hit by the current economic climate. Even cheaper brands like Ross and Burlington, which typically perform well in economic downturns, have tempered their expectations for growth.

"The margin for error in the event of a downturn in employment and the economy is very, very little," said Brandon Svec, the head of U.S. retail analytics at CoStar Group. "The upside appears to be relatively minimal, as well, given how little consumers have left in the tank."

The charges were part of a broader push by the Justice Department during former President Joe Biden's administration to crack down on transnational repression, or efforts by U.S. adversaries like Iran and China to silence dissidents on American soil.

The two-week trial could provide a window into alleged ties between Iran's government and criminal organizations prosecutors say it hires to do its "dirty work."

A representative of Iran's U.N. mission did not respond to a request for comment on the trial of Amirov and Omarov.

U.S. prosecutors in 2021 brought charges against four Iranian intelligence officers over the alleged kidnapping plot. They are at large, and Tehran has called the allegations baseless.

The alleged murder plot came to light in 2022, when Khalid Mehdiyev - an alleged co-conspirator of Amirov and Omarov - was arrested outside Alinejad's New York home with an AK-47 rifle.