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-- a leader in Columbia University's encampment movement -- on Saturday night, claiming that his student visa had been revoked, according to attorney Amy Greer in a statement to ABC News.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.

[Want even more content from FPM? Sign up for FPM+ to unlock exclusive series, virtual town-halls with our authors, and more—now for just $3.99/month. Click here to sign up.] Along with the bodies of two members of the Bibas family, including the youngest hostage Kfir, who was nine months old when kidnapped and taken to Gaza, and an unidentified woman in the place of Kfir’s mother Shiri Bibas, Hamas released a fourth body at the same time. This was the body of one of the oldest hostages, 83-year-old Oded Lifshitz....

LONDON — The “wanted” posters were sent by mail, arriving at the homes of Carmen Lau’s neighbors in the town of Maidenhead. The alleged crime? Speaking out about China’s rule in Hong Kong, where Lau has not lived since 2021. Provide information about Lau to the Hong Kong Police Force, urged the poster, folded into envelopes with Hong Kong stamps, or “take her to the Chinese embassy.” The flyers that arrived in this town 7 miles from Windsor Castle are the latest threat directed at Hong Kong’s pro-democracy diaspora, who...

An Idaho Republican town hall descended into chaos when a protestor was pulled from her seat, wrestled to the ground and dragged out of a packed auditorium by three unidentified private security guards. Teresa Borrenpohl of Post Falls was asked to leave the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee meeting at Coeur d'Alene High School on Saturday after she and other activists heckled state GOP lawmakers on stage about several bills working their way through the state’s legislature. Borrenpohl, who unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Idaho House as a...