By JAKE OFFENHARTZ, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Mahmoud Khalil appeared Tuesday in a federal appeals court in Philadelphia as he continues to challenge a deportation case brought by President Donald Trump’s administration over his pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University.

The hearing before the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals came as the government seeks to overturn a lower court order granting Khalil’s June release from a Louisiana immigration jail.

Khalil’s attorneys have asked the three-judge panel to affirm the district court’s ruling, which prevents federal authorities from detaining him again and beginning the deportation process.

Drew Ensign, an attorney for the government, countered that the lower court judge overstepped his authority and that the case should be left to the immigration judge in Louisiana.

“All of this is being conducted in an improper forum,” Ensign said. “So that should be a full stop.”

An immigration judge last month ruled that Khalil could be deported, though the case is now under review by a separate appeal board.

Khalil, who is a legal U.S. resident married to an American citizen, has vowed to continue advocating for Palestinians as his case plays out. He was recently permitted by a magistrate judge to travel across the country for rallies and other events.

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“They want to make an example of me to intimidate those speaking out for Palestine across the country,” Khalil said in a statement following the hearing. “I’m stating unequivocally: I will continue my legal fight in federal courts for my rights, and for everyone’s right, to free speech.”

Khalil was the first protester arrested in the Trump administration’s sprawling effort to deport student activists, academics and others who joined pro-Palestinian protests, which the government has equated with antisemitism.

Khalil has repeatedly rejected allegations of antisemitism.

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, Associated Press

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, died Monday. He was 29.

The Charlotte Chess Center in North Carolina, where Naroditsky trained and worked as a coach, announced his death on social media, calling him “a talented chess player, educator, and beloved member of the chess community.”

“Let us remember Daniel for his passion and love for the game of chess, and for the joy and inspiration he brought to us all every day,” his family said in a statement shared by the center.

The cause of death was not immediately known.

Naroditsky became a grandmaster, the highest title in chess aside from World Chess Champion, at the age of 18.

Years earlier, the California-born player won the Under 12 world championship and spent his teenage years writing chess strategy books as he climbed the world rankings.

He was consistently ranked in the top 200 worldwide for traditional chess and also excelled at a fast-paced style called blitz chess, maintaining a top 25 ranking throughout his adult career. Most recently Naroditsky, known to many as Danya, won the U.S. National Blitz Championship in August.

Fellow grandmasters credited Naroditsky with introducing the sport to a wider audience by livestreaming many of his matches and sharing live commentary on others. Thousands of people regularly tuned in on YouTube and the interactive streaming platform Twitch to watch Naroditsky play.

“He loved streaming, and he loved trying to be educational. The chess world is very grateful,” Hikaru Nakamura, an American grandmaster, said on a livestream Monday.

In a final video posted to his YouTube channel on Friday titled “You Thought I Was Gone!?” Naroditsky tells viewers he’s “back, better than ever” after taking a creative break from streaming. He talks viewers through his moves as he plays live chess matches on the computer from a cozy home studio.

Other elite chess players from around the globe took to social media to express their shock and sadness.

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Dutch chess grandmaster Benjamin Bok reflected on his lifelong friendship with Naroditsky, who he said he’s known since the Under 12 world championship that Naroditsky won in 2007.

“I still can’t believe it and don’t want to believe it,” Bok said on X. “It was always a privilege to play, train, and commentate with Danya, but above all, to call him my friend.”

Naroditsky was the son of Jewish immigrants to the U.S. from Ukraine and Azerbaijan. He was born and raised in San Mateo County, California, and was described by his parents as a very serious kid with an impressive attention span and memory. He went on to study history at Stanford University, earning a bachelor’s degree in 2019 after taking a year off to play in chess tournaments.

After college, he moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he coached the area’s top junior chess players.

By STAN CHOE, Associated Press Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market is drifting near its record heights on Tuesday as the floodgates open for companies reporting how much profit they made during the summer.

The S&P 500 slipped 0.1% in morning trading and is sitting 0.4% below its all-time high set earlier this month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 155 points, or 0.3%, as of 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% lower.

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General Motors rallied 14.3% after reporting stronger quarterly results than analysts expected, while also raising its forecasts for some full-year financial targets. CEO Mary Barra said it’s moving quickly to reduce its losses in 2026 and beyond for its electric-vehicle business, as “it is now clear” that EV adoption will be lower than planned.

RTX, the aerospace and defense company, and Danaher, the life sciences and diagnostics company, also jumped to gains of more than 6.5% after delivering better profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Coca-Cola rose 3.3% after likewise topping Wall Street’s profit expectations.

Warner Bros. Discovery leaped 9.2% after the company said it’s now considering other options besides its previously announced split of Discovery Global off Warner Bros. that could be more profitable for shareholders. The company said it made the move after hearing from “multiple parties” interested in either the entire company or Warner Bros.

They helped offset a drop for PulteGroup, which fell 2.2% even though the homebuilder delivered a stronger profit than analysts expected. Northrop Grumman slipped 0.8% after its revenue for the latest quarter fell short of analysts’ forecasts.

Several Big Tech stocks lost momentum, taking a break from their own rallies, and also kept the market in check. A 1.9% drop for Google parent Alphabet from its all-time high was one of the heaviest weights on the S&P 500. Nvidia sank 1.3%.

Other big recent winners in financial markets also took a pause. The price of gold fell 4.4% from its latest record, dropping back to $4,167.00 per ounce. It’s still up nearly 58% for the year so far.

The pressure is on companies to show that their profits are growing following a torrid rally of 35% for the S&P 500 from a low in April. It’s one way they can justify their high stock prices amid criticism that they’re too expensive.

Corporate earnings reports also have gained importance because they provide details on the strength of the U.S. economy when the U.S. government’s shutdown has delayed important economic updates. That’s making the job of the Federal Reserve more difficult, as it tries to decide whether high inflation or the slowing job market is the bigger issue for the economy.

Despite the shutdown, the Commerce Department will release its consumer prices report on Friday, which could help guide the Fed’s interest rate policy. It’s the government’s first data release since the shutdown began on Oct. 1.

In stock markets abroad, indexes rose across much of Europe and Asia.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 added 0.3% and crept closer to the 50,000 level as conservative lawmaker Sanae Takaichi became the country’s prime minister. Investors expect her to push for lower interest rates and other policies that could help the market.

Indexes rose 1.4% in Shanghai and 0.7% in Hong Kong amid expectations that President Donald Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this month during a regional summit. That’s raised hopes for an easing of trade tensions between the world’s biggest economies.

In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury eased to 3.95% from 4.00% late Monday.

AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed.

Tom Gunderson was training for an upcoming bike race — a 50-mile, gravel-road race called the Filthy 50 in Lanesboro, Minn. — when he was struck by a minivan on Washington County Road 96 in Stillwater Township on Sept. 27.

Gunderson, 65, of Stillwater, died Oct. 9 at Regions Hospital in St. Paul from injuries sustained in the crash.

The crash, which occurred around 8:45 a.m., happened when Gunderson, biking west on 96, turned south at the intersection of Neal Avenue. He was struck by a woman who also was driving west on County Road 96, said Cmdr. Kyle Schenck of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.

The driver remained at the scene of the crash, Schenck said. “At this point in the investigation, it appears she was not at fault,” Schenck said. “No arrests have been made or are expected to be made.”

Gunderson had multiple bikes and rode five days a week, sometimes logging 200 or more miles a week, said Levon Kalemkiarian, a longtime friend and Gunderson’s trainer and coach.

“He was very fit, but it was also just his consistency over time,” said Kalemkiarian, the owner of Premier Training Systems in Stillwater. “That’s what got him to where he was. It wasn’t one or two years. It was how consistent he was over the course of a decade — just being a student of his sport, taking care of himself on the bike and off the bike, and then also enjoying life between all the training, too.”

Volunteer coach

Gunderson was a volunteer coach with the Stillwater Mountain Bike Team, a competitive co-ed riding program for students in sixth to 12th grades in the Stillwater district. Gunderson was assigned to the fastest group of student riders because he was the fastest coach, said Todd Lunneborg, the team’s director and head coach.

“The hard part of my job is finding a coach that kids can’t keep up with, and Tom was a monster rider,” Lunneborg said. “He was fast and dedicated and easygoing, and he was a really great asset. I didn’t ride with Tom. He was too fast for me. His whole life was on that bike.”

Before arriving at Stillwater Area High School to meet student riders for a workout, Gunderson would log a 15- to 20-mile ride “as a warmup,” he said,

Gunderson was an organ donor, and “we joke that whoever got his heart woke up wanting to do 60 miles,” Lunneborg said.

“Tom’s mantra was ‘I’ll do it until I can’t,’” his obituary states. “Elite bike racer, All-American swimmer, ski racer, coach, talented water skier, wealth management adviser, horse barrel racer, and volunteer – he did it all at a very high level. Yet he always kept a healthy perspective and humbleness about his impressive accomplishments.”

Gunderson grew up in West St. Paul, and graduated from Henry Sibley High School. At St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., Gunderson studied economics, played varsity soccer and was captain of the swim team. He received NCAA All-American honors in swimming while at St. Olaf. He later got a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in finance from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

“Tom sought challenge and was a doer, not an observer,” according to his obituary. “He excelled at generously giving time to others, knowing that kind thoughts require kind action. Volunteering as a mountain bike coach at Stillwater High School was one of his joys as he helped numerous bikers develop their confidence, just as he had.”

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Gunderson was treasurer of the Chilkoot Velo Cycling Club in Stillwater and had been a member since 2015. “For seven years, I competed as a triathlete, drawing on my collegiate NCAA All-American swimming background,” Gunderson wrote in his bio on the club’s website. “After spending 20 years breeding, raising, and training barrel racing horses, I returned to cycling in 2014. I enjoy group rides and races on my road, mountain, and gravel bikes, and I also help coach the Stillwater High School mountain bike team. You’ll occasionally spot me adding some excitement to the Thursday evening group rides, especially on the way back to the barn.”

Gunderson was president and founder of Nason Hill Wealth Management in Stillwater. He previously worked for Inflection Capital Management, Foundry Partners, Oxford Financial Group and Lowry Hill/Abbot Downing, among others. He spent 19 years at Advantus Capital Management, the investment division of Securian in St. Paul.

‘Discipline and principle’

The night before the crash, Gunderson and his wife, Lynn Peterson Gunderson, sat on their front porch “to enjoy the beautiful fall evening,” Lynn Peterson Gunderson wrote in a CaringBridge post.

Gunderson was reading “Poems & Prayers” by actor Matthew McConaughey and asked to read a passage out loud that “really resonated” with him, she wrote. “There’s a difference between a good man and a nice guy,” he read. “A good man stands for certain ideals. And when those beliefs are contested, a good man is not a nice guy.”

Tom Gunderson (Courtesy of Crescent Tide)

“Tom was a man of great discipline and principle,” Lynn Peterson Gunderson wrote. “Tom left us two of the greatest gifts a human could ever give: organ donation and hearts full of love. … We are at peace knowing Tom has completed this journey on earth. He has moved onto the bright light of eternity, and we look forward to meeting him there.”

Two days after Gunderson died, Kalemkiarian rode the Filthy 50 in Lanesboro in his friend’s honor, racing with Gunderson’s number in addition to his own.

“He gave Tom one final ride, one final finish time, and one final Top-50 finisher 50-cent-piece medal to give to Tom’s family,” Lunneborg said.

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Kalemkiarian said Monday that he stopped mid-race on Oct. 11 to help a friend who had crashed, but when another rider came along to help, both riders encouraged him to get back on his bike and finish the race in order to get Gunderson his Top 50 finish and a 50-cent-piece medal for Gunderson’s family.

“It was one of the last races that Tom had planned to ride this year,” he said. “It just seemed fitting to take the number and carry it for the duration of the race for him, so he could have one last finishing time.”

Gunderson is survived by his wife and his son, Austin Peterson.

A celebration of life will be held at a later date. Crescent Tide Cremation Services is handling arrangements.