Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the encampment protests at Columbia University last spring, was detained on March 8 at his student apartment building....

The department, headed by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is expected to decrease its staff from 82,000 federal health employees to 62,000, which is expected to save taxpayers $1.8 billion annually....

Zohran Mamdani’s plan to create a new $1.1 billion community safety department that would shift responsibility away from the NYPD was panned as “another pie in the sky idea” by law enforcement experts...