"There has been no evidence that has been introduced by the government other than [an] op-ed," a federal judge said on Friday. "I mean, that literally is the case."

Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk was released from a Louisiana detention center Friday, six weeks after masked federal agents took her into custody amid the Trump administration’s effort to deport noncitizens who have protested against the war in Gaza.