内容摘要：“Martin was the extreme example,” said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I think our antenna are flying high as we look at each one of these nominees.”

“Martin was the extreme example,” said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I think our antenna are flying high as we look at each one of these nominees.”

Watching fellow Canadian Shai Gilgeous-Alexander be announced asleft Steve Nash brimming with pride.

And then the moment got better.Nash — until this week, the first and only Canadian to win the MVP award — was someone that Gilgeous-Alexander identified in hisWednesday night as one of his basketball inspirations.

“It means the world,” Nash, the 2005 and 2006 MVP, said Thursday in a video conference with a small group of reporters. “I don’t need it. And at the same time, there’s no better feeling than watching these guys thrive and them saying you had an impact on them. That makes it all worthwhile and special. And I don’t know if there could be very few compliments higher than that.”Gilgeous-Alexander — the NBA’s scoring champion — got

to win the award, one that he received from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Thursday night just before he and the Oklahoma City Thunder hosted the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals.

“For you, it’s always been team first,” Silver told Gilgeous-Alexander, just before handing him the trophy at midcourt. “But you led this team to the best record in the NBA and the most wins in franchise history. Congratulations.”as he appeals a Louisiana immigration judge’s ruling that he can be deported from the country.

On Thursday, Khalil appeared before that immigration judge, Jamee Comans, as his attorneys presented testimony about the risks he would face if he were to be deported to Syria, where he grew up in a refugee camp, or Algeria, where he maintains citizenship through a distant relative.His attorneys submitted testimony from Columbia University faculty and students attesting to Khalil’s character.

In one declaration, Joseph Howley, a classics professor at Columbia, said he had first introduced Khalil to a university administrator to serve as a spokesperson on behalf of campus protesters, describing him as a “upstanding, principled, and well-respected member of our community.’“I have never known Mahmoud to espouse any anti-Jewish sentiments or prejudices, and have heard him forcefully reject antisemitism on multiple occasions,” Howley wrote.