Dozens of Democrats told the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security on Friday to stop the “continued targeting” of Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestinian activist who was detained and released last year but still lives under the threat of deportation.
Immigration agents arrested Khalil, a Syrian-born legal U.S. resident, last March after he played a prominent role in demonstrations at Columbia University against Israel’s war in Gaza. The government accused him of stoking antisemitism and detained him for 104 days.
Though a federal judge ordered Khalil released from custody last year, the Trump administration is still trying to deport him through immigration proceedings.
“Evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that the Administration’s detention of and efforts to deport Mr. Khalil have violated his constitutional rights to free speech and due process,” the 43 lawmakers, led by Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), wrote in a Friday letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and outgoing DHS Sec. Kristi Noem.
Action star and martial artist Chuck Norris has died, his family said Friday. He was 86. 
Two Oklahoma firefighters were killed the morning of March 20 when a fire tanker crashed on the way to battle a blaze, officials said.
At least three Palestinian women have been killed and eight more injured when a beauty salon in the Israeli-occupied West Bank was hit during an Iranian missile attack.
On Tuesday, lists of names were nailed to wooden boards outside the gates of the Omid rehabilitation center, some typed on A4 sheets and others handwritten. Their edges curled quickly in the damp air, blurred by rain and a crowd of men running their fingers down the pages again and again, whispering names under their breath, as if repetition might produce a different outcome.
For over a year, Israel, Washington and even Lebanon’s government have been speaking as if Hezbollah has been broken for good.
States across the US south-west recorded blistering temperatures at the tail end of winter, including some of the hottest March temperatures ever recorded in the US, with forecasts indicating hotter days are still to come.
A Canadian mother and her seven-year-old daughter, who has autism, have been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Texas since Saturday, family members have said.
