This week Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) ignored Donald Trump’s endorsement of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) as House speaker and announced plans to try to force him out. One can only assume she is making that attempt for attention, because it seems doomed to fail on the House floor. Democrats have already pledged to support Johnson, and he has backing from much of the Republican caucus. You may recall, Greene and the rest of the Freedom Caucus were the reason it took 15 rounds for former Rep....
It’s instructive to watch the way people react to the pro-Hamas demonstrations on college campuses. You can learn a lot, especially about members of the media and President Biden.
President Joe Biden put to rest speculation Thursday over how strongly he would come down on a wave of disruptive protests engulfing college campuses. After a week of silence, he called for order to be restored as pro-Palestinian demonstrators force the cancellation of classes and graduation ceremonies over the war in Gaza. But the Republican […]
A coalition of nearly 20 Republican senators on Thursday introduced a measure blaming university leadership across the country for an explosion of anti-Semitic violence on campus that has endangered Jewish students and put the nation on edge.
Democratic officials led by the White House on Thursday spurned the request from House Speaker Mike Johnson to deploy troops to Columbia University.
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Late-night hosts talk police crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests, Trump’s court naps and Kristi Noem’s dogged defenseLate-night hosts talked use of force against college protesters and Donald Trump’s apparent struggle to stay awake during his criminal hush-money trial. Continue reading
This election cycle’s summer of rage has gotten an early start, as seemingly organized encampments have popped up on college campuses across the country. Although Read More
NEW YORK — Students who occupied a Columbia University building vowed Tuesday to fight back against efforts to evict them, as administrators struggled to contain pro-Palestinian protests that have launched dozens of campus demonstrations around the United States. The demonstrations — the most sweeping and prolonged unrest to rock U.S. college campuses since the Vietnam war protests of the 1960s and 70s — have led to several hundred arrests of students and other activists. Many of them have vowed...
Dozens of helmeted police flooded Columbia University's campus in the heart of New York City on Tuesday to evict a building occupied by pro-Palestinian student protesters and detain demonstrators.The action came as university administrators around the United States have struggled for weeks to contain pro-Palestinian demonstrations on dozens of campuses.
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith will testify before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday regarding the pro-Palestinian protests and encampment at George Washington University. Officials from the House Oversight Committee and the mayor’s office confirmed to the Washington Examiner that both Bowser and Smith will appear before the […]
University and police denounced as masked group marched on campus and attacked pro-Palestinian demonstrators last weekThe University of California, Los Angeles, said that it would create a new office dedicated to campus safety following mounting criticism of authorities’ slow response to a brutal attack on pro-Palestinian protesters by a mob of “instigators”.The school’s chancellor, Gene Block, said on Sunday that urgent changes were needed to “better protect our community moving forward” and...