After 113 protesters were arrested at Columbia University on Thursday, Democrats see an opportunity to finally leverage a free speech debate Republicans have dominated for years.
Law enforcement is breaking up a large demonstration at the University of Southern California after students began camping out on campus to advocate for Palestine. The protest, "Gaza Solidarity Occupation," is part of a larger, nationwide trend of college demonstrations to support Palestinians in the Israel-Hamas War.Around 5 p.m., LAPD officers arrived on campus and issued a dispersal order. They ordered all protesters to move or face arrest. At least four people were arrested. While many...
Minouche Shafik defended her administration's efforts to address antisemitism, including by hiring additional staff to investigate complaints and launching an antisemitism taskforce.
Pro-Palestinian encampments have emerged on other campuses, including at the University of Michigan, New York University, and MIT.
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The House voted 273 to 147 Friday in favor of reauthorizing the surveillance bill that has been exploited by the FBI hundreds of thousands of times to spy on American citizens. Only 59 Republicans reportedly voted against renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The bill is now headed to the Senate, where it will likely be passed before the April 19 deadline, to the great satisfaction of its champions in the Biden administration, members of the the House...
Protesters against Israel's war on the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip were able to shut down traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and police took their sweet time clearing them out. The protest began around 7:30 a.m. on Monday when dozens of protesters stopped their cars on the iconic bridge and blocked all southbound traffic. It took about 45 minutes for the California Highway Patrol to issue an alert that all the traffic going south was stopped, and then police...
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NEW YORK >> The police cleared out a protest at Columbia University this afternoon, arresting dozens of demonstrators who had occupied a lawn on campus and throwing out their tent encampment. The actions came the day after university leaders pledged to Congress that they would crack down on unauthorized student protests tied to the war in the Gaza Strip.
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Employees at Google's offices in New York and Sunnyvale staged a sit-in in protest of Project Nimbus on Tuesday. Nimbus is a government contract between Google and Amazon and the Israeli government for their cloud computing services. Protestors demanded that the $1.2 billion contract be terminated, ending Google's complicity and aid in human rights violations in Palestine. — Read the rest
Several Google employees were arrested after occupying Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office in California to protest against the company's ties to Israel, the Daily Wire reported.According to the r