A U.S. judge denied pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil's request to be released from detention after the Trump administration said the Columbia University student was being held on an immigration fraud charge. Newark, New Jersey-based U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz said Khalil's lawyers had not successfully argued why it was unlawful for the government to hold him on the charge, which he has denied https://reut.rs/44eYlOk