The Trump administration has argued that the State Department is bloated and layoffs are necessary. The court found that’s for Congress to decide.

"This vindicates what Mahmoud has maintained since day one — that the government cannot detain or deport him based on Rubio’s say-so," Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer for Khalil and a law professor at the City University of New York, said in a statement.

Experts and former officials said it was unusual for a cabinet secretary to try to influence the Treasury Department’s sanctions process to target a domestic entity.

Syrian national Mahmoud Khalil can't be detained and deported due to foreign policy concerns by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a federal district court judge ruled on Wednesday.

The Russia Day holiday marks the country's 1990 declaration of sovereignty, more than a year before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

U.S. President Donald Trump's allies often cite false claims to support their dismantling of USAID, the United States' main humanitarian aid agency.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered U.S. embassies around the world to move ahead with a directive to fire all remaining staffers with the U.S.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged the Treasury Department to open an investigation into whether Harvard violated federal sanctions laws by co-sponsoring a health policy conference in China that may have included blacklisted Chinese officials,

Two weeks after the U.S. said it would revoke Chinese student visas, Trump said he came to an agreement with Chinese leader Xi Jinping regarding enrollment at U.S. campuses.