The memorandum refers to the commitments as “onerous,” “misguided” and as placing “concerns about climate change above the nation’s interests in reliable energy resources.”

President Trump moved on Thursday to withdraw from a Biden administration agreement that had brokered a truce in a decades-long legal battle with tribes in the Pacific Northwest.

The Trump administration does not plan to release pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, officials wrote in a letter Friday, despite a federal judge’s ruling that Khalil could not be held or removed from the country on the basis that he poses a threat to national security.

The Trump administration is keeping Columbia University alumnus Mahmoud Khalil detained, despite a judge's Wednesday order for his release.

“Mahmoud Khalil was detained in retaliation for his advocacy for Palestinian rights,” Amy Greer, associate attorney at Dratel + Lewis and part of his legal team, said in a statement to The Independent...