A federal appeals court has made no immediate decisions as it considers jurisdictional issues in the cases of a Turkish Tufts University student who's been detained by immigration authorities for six weeks and a Palestinian student at Columbia University who was recently released from detention.

A judge has released a Palestinian student activist who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested by immigration officials during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship.

A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that the man charged with killing his mother at sea during a 2016 fishing trip off the coast of New England in a plot to inherit millions of dollars will remain detained pending trial.