TOPEKA (KSNT) - City workers are wrapping up another round of work cleaning up trash from homeless camps on the banks of the Kansas River. KSNT 27 News reached out to the City of Topeka for an update on the continued enforcement of the new 'no camping' ordinance passed last year. Over the past several []
On Monday, justices heard a case that could have sweeping implications for how cities respond to homelessness.
French police evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River on Tuesday, the latest operation in what aid groups call a campaign of ‘’social cleansing'' ahead of the Summer Olympics. Before dawn on an unusually cold April morning, around 30 teenage boys
There is nothing in the text or history of the cruel and unusual punishments clause that remotely grants anyone a right to public housing.
Dozens of police officers swept through a protest encampment on the grounds
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Columbia University began suspending students who defied orders to vacate their pro-Palestinian protest by 2 p.m. Monday, after the school's president said it would not divest from Israel — a demand that has sparked protests on college campuses across the country. "We have begun suspending students," Ben Chang, vice president for communications and a spokesperson for the university, said about three hours after the deadline passed. The university did not say how many students it suspended. The...
BOSTON — Police detained nearly 200 people at three US universities on Saturday as they cleared pro-Palestinian encampments, in the latest campus clashes triggered by protests over Israel's war against Hamas. On the East Coast, police in Boston detained about 100 people while clearing a protest camp at Northeastern University, with social media posts showing security forces in riot gear and officers loading tents onto the back of a truck. The action was taken after some protesters resorted to...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Supreme Court on Monday is weighing the constitutionality of whether cities, specifically in the western United States can criminalize sleeping or camping in public places when a person has nowhere else to go. According to an NBC News report, the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, will review an appeals […]
Less than 24 hours after a violent attack on a pro-Palestinian camp at UCLA, authorities appeared poised to shut down the encampment by declaring an unlawful assembly. The move comes after UCLA Chancellor Gene Block announced Tuesday the university's intentions. The University of California has generally taken a lighter touch in handling protests than USC, Columbia and other campuses that have called in police, who have arrested hundreds of students. In a statement earlier Tuesday, University of...
Monrovia – The National Society for Human Rights is urging the Liberian government to take concrete steps to address the current situation facing Liberians living in the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana. By Willie N. Tokpah The group, currently operating in about 37 countries across the world, has raised alarm about the terrible living conditions []
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The U.S. Supreme Court appears to be leaning towards a crackdown on homeless camps. Legal experts KRQE News 13 spoke to say this decision could change how the state approaches homelessness moving forward. Depending on how the court rules, it could be left up to each state on how to handle the encampments []