This is a developing story, check back for updates. Update, 11:35 p.m. Police officers arrested a counterprotester who was playing music over a speaker near the barricade in front of the Paulson Center encampment, putting them in handcuffs and taking them to a New York City Police Department van on Mercer Street. It is unclear This story LIVE: Paulson Center on lockdown after hundreds protest outside encampment appeared first on Washington Square News.
A crash involving a wrong-way driver and a semi truck closed down all
Ships evacuating 12,000 islanders over fears that side of Mount Ruang might slide into sea and cause tsunami Eruptions at a remote Indonesian volcano have forced more than half a dozen airports to close with ash spreading as far as Malaysia, according to officials, while authorities rushed to evacuate thousands due to tsunami fears.Mount Ruang erupted three times on Tuesday, spewing lava and ash more than 5km (three miles) into the sky and forcing authorities to issue evacuation orders for...
Motorists have faced heavy delays after the crash between junction 6, for Spaghetti Junction, and junction 7, Great Barr
The New York City mayor has claimed police arrested protesters after non-student elements escalated the situationThe New York City mayor, Eric Adams, remains under pressure to divulge how many of the 282 people arrested at campus protests in Manhattan on Tuesday night were non-students after repeatedly claiming that “outside agitators” were responsible for escalations that prompted an overwhelming law enforcement crackdown.Adams, a Democrat and former city police officer, was asked by local...
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, about two dozen protesters sat in the middle of a roadway blocking access
Protests at Columbia University and elsewhere throughout the nation have been allegedly "co-opted" by what New York City police officials described as outside agitators.
This is a developing story, check back for updates. Update, 12:18 a.m., April 27 An unidentified speaker announced to the encampment that remaining protesters — of which there are around 60 — will be staying overnight and advised those choosing to stay to enter through the barricade. Around five Campus Safety officers are stationed outside This story LIVE: Protesters set up Gaza Solidarity Encampment outside Paulson Center appeared first on Washington Square News.
UMass Amherst celebrated the inauguration of its new chancellor on Friday while student activists protested in support of Palestine.
Pro-Palestinian groups and journalists are readying a rally to shut down
GRA President Brendan O’Connor was asked about policing protests and the so-called ‘far right’ - and said gardai are facing threats and abuse
The Columbia University protest encampment on Monday, April 22, 2024. Hundreds of people gathered in and outside the school’s Morningside Heights campus as classes went remote under the administration’s orders. [ more › ]