Lawmakers are urging President Joe Biden to send the National Guard to Columbia University as it deals with intense and sometimes violent anti-Israel protests. A dueling coalition of Democratic and Republican lawmakers visited the university to condemn the anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian protests and called for the immediate resignation of the institution's president.The demonstrations have been ongoing since last Wednesday and have seen outbreaks of violence and arrests, including the detention...
The Columbia University Senate in New York City voted in favor of a resolution calling for an investigation into the school’s leadership amid anti-Israel protests that have taken place on the campus for over a week. A source within the school’s leadership confirmed the details of the resolution, saying it was adopted by a vote of 62-14, with three senate members abstaining. The resolution alleges Columbia President Minouche Shafik violated established protocols when she authorized the New York...
Shafaqna English- UT Austin’s faculty condemn university leaders’s decision to “invite city policy to campus in response to a planned peaceful event and said faculty members won’t teach because of the school’s militarized response to a student event. One of the largest demonstrations took place at the University of Texas
Since 1999, the name of a Colorado high school has been tragically enshrined in the public consciousness – and has become synonymous with mass shootings. But those left reeling by the massacre at Columbine have watched in horror as mass shootings are replicated over and over again across the US, writes Sheila Flynn
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Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee told reporters Thursday that he plans to sign Republican-driven legislation that will let teachers carry guns in classrooms. "What's important to me is that we give districts tools," Lee said of the bill that is predicated on the deranged theory that more guns in schools will somehow create less gun violence. “That’s what we want more than anything is to add an additional tool, an additional option, for our kids to be as safe as possible in schools.” ...
According to Stacy Quinones with Youngstown City Schools, around 3:30 p.m., someone called the Youngstown Police Department with a false report that there was a shooting at Harding Elementary.
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Findlay High School went through another swatting situation on Tuesday morning. Police Chief James Mathias, in the video below, says a call came into police dispatch at 9:36 Tuesday morning about a person in the high school with a rifle. The caller said he had an AR-15 style rifle and was holding two students hostage
VP Kamala Harris is continuing her abortion tour on Monday, stopping in Las Vegas, Nevada, to promote a proposed ballot measure that would create a constitutional right to abortion.
Trial began Monday before Judge Maureen Sweeney for Mehki Venable, 20, who is accused of aggravated murder and murder for the Sept. 29, 2022, shooting death of Jacob Moore, 21, of Youngstown, in the single-digit block of New York Avenue.
A suspect is under arrest after five people were shot on Friday outside of a nightclub in heavily gun-controlled Washington, DC.