It’s been a rough couple of weeks at Columbia University in New York City since pro-Hamas radicals took over the campus, commandeered an entire building, vandalized school property, and intimidated and harassed Jewish students. They were eventually hauled off when the school finally asked for assistance from the NYPD to rid the school of the scourge.
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik broke her silence days after the New York Police Department (NYPD) conducted a raid on pro-Palestinian protesters who had taken over an academic building. In a video posted to X on Friday afternoon, Shafik described
The incident is being investigated while protests at several city schools intensify.
The New York Police Department has released photos of items recovered from a Columbia University building occupied by anti-Israel protesters. The items include gas masks, helmets, goggles, hammers, knives, ropes, and a book on terrorism. NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry shared the photos on social media, writing, “These are not the tools of students protesting, […]
Columbia University has become the epicenter of student protests over the war in Gaza. In the following Q&A, Stefan Bradley, a history professor at Amherst College and author of the 2009 book, “Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s,” touches on the similarities and differences between the protests of the 1960s and now.
A single gunshot was accidentally fired by an NYPD officer inside Hamilton Hall on the campus of Columbia University while police worked to remove anti-Israel agitators from the building on Tuesday night, the department confirmed Thursday. In a statement to Fox News on Thursday, the NYPD said the single shot was accidentally fired when an Emergency Service Unit officer attempted to access a barricaded area during an "extensive and methodical search" on the first floor. The officer, who was not...
Alisa Solomon, The Nation Columbia offers a case-study in how right-wing politicians are using exaggerated claims of anti-semitism to advance a conservative agenda.
Mike Wankum has a look at the forecast for Boston, Massachusetts and New England.
"I got my associates going on 11 and my bachelor's going on 13, my masters at 15," said Tillman.
"I got my associates going on 11 and my bachelor's going on 13, my masters at 15," said Tillman.
Please, listen to us – not political figures, radical fringes and misguided mediaOn Tuesday night, we watched in horror as hundreds of riot police flooded our beloved campus and brutalized our classmates. The next day, students awoke with swollen faces, bruised wrists and lacerations – all results of inhumane police treatment. The past two weeks have been tumultuous, marked with mass arrests of student demonstrators, an encampment on our lawns, national media attention and vile acts of hatred....
An unsettled pattern will be in place throughout the week, bringing frequent showers, steady rain, and thunderstorms at times. After a mainly dry day on Monday, May 13, the next day without precipitation will be Thursday, May 16. "The two best bets for dry weather this week will be No. 1, Monday, and No. 2, Thursday," said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Joe Lundberg. "Consider any breaks of dry weather a true bonus in this busy pattern." However, the National Weather Service says there is a...