The wife of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist who faces deportation, says she was "naive" to think that her husband wouldn't be detained by immigration agents. In her first public comments since her Syrian-born husband's Saturday detention, Noor Abdalla told Reuters on Thursday that just two days before his arrest, Khalil had asked her if she knew what to do if Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers came to the door. "I didn’t take him seriously. Clearly I was naive," said Abdalla, who is a U.S. citizen...

Chemours Co. plans to add the chief executive officer of Vision One Management Partners to its board as it seeks to avoid a proxy fight with the activist investor.

The Wilmington, Delaware-based chemicals company has nominated Courtney Mather as a new independent director, according to a spokesperson for the group.

The Trump administration is employing a little-used immigration provision to try to deport a Palestinian activist with permanent residency status in the US.

Mahmoud Khalil, who until recently was a student at Columbia University, was arrested by immigration enforcement over the weekend after months of helping lead anti-Israel protests at the Ivy League campus. While US officials cited his alleged support for Hamas — a designated terrorist organization — as justification for his detention, the underlying charges against him hadn’t been clarified.

Mahmoud Khalil is married to a U.S. citizen, his attorney said. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil -- a leader in Columbia University's encampment movement -- on Saturday night, claiming that his student visa had been revoked, according to attorney Amy Greer in a statement to ABC News. However, Khalil is in the United States on a green card and not on a student visa, Greer said Sunday. Despite informing agents about his legal status, ICE detained him, she said. At one point during a phone...

Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil (C) talks to the press during a press briefing organized by pro-Palestinian protesters in New York City on June 1, 2024. Photo: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images • Greer told the AP that an agent informed her in a phone call that they were executing an order from the State Department to revoke Khalil's student visa. Upon being informed he was a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were pulling his green card too. • Greer said in a statement to...

Activist investors have a new obsession: Urging companies to hold (or HODL, as crypto enthusiasts say) Bitcoin on their balance sheets to boost revenue and possibly transform their businesses by betting on the cryptocurrency’s staying power. Last week, Strive Asset Management CEO Matt Cole revealed on X he was pushing GameStop — the beloved meme stock which has struggled to find a sustainable income stream beyond game cartridges — to invest in Bitcoin. Cole believes that, in a decade, every major company in the stock market will follow suit. And...

Phillips 66 is fighting back against activist investor Elliott Investment Management in a letter to shareholders Wednesday.

In the letter, which was reviewed by Bloomberg News, the energy company confirmed it met with Elliott earlier this week in New York before the hedge fund forged ahead with nominating candidates to Phillips 66’s board.

The activist firm backed by Martin Lorentzon, the billionaire co-founder of Spotify Technology SA, is seeking external funds to build out its strategy of investing in small to medium-sized listed companies.

Cervantes Capital AB, which has so far received about $120 million of Lorentzon’s estimated $12.6 billion fortune, plans to more than double its assets under management by buying stocks that are overlooked by equity research teams at the major banks.