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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.