Representative Ilhan Omar's daughter Isra Hirsi was among at least 108 people arrested as police in riot gear moved in to break up the anti-Israel protest that rocked Columbia University in New York.New York City Mayor Eric Adams held a news conference Thursday evening to say that university President Nemat Shafik had asked police to eliminate a "clear and present threat" to campus safety.Tensions had been at their peak since protesters pitched their tents on the university's south lawn at 4...
President Joe Biden indicated in a new interview that he is considering taking executive action to secure the southern border. "Have you made a final decision on taking executive order in terms of what you want to do at the border? That includes the power to shut down the border, as it was suggested," Univision’s Enrique Acevedo asked Biden in an interview that aired late Tuesday night.
Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in one of the Senate office buildings on Tuesday afternoon after marching in the basement hallways and one of the cafeteria areas. The protesters were arrested after demonstrating inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building, a spokesperson for the U.S. Capitol Police confirmed to the Washington Examiner. Approximately 50 of those protesters […]
Students set up encampments to demand Columbia divest from Israel while those at USC gathered in support of Asna TabassumTensions on Columbia University’s campus continued to rise on Thursday as the New York police department began breaking up student protests over Israel’s war on Gaza, at the direction of the school’s president, and arrests were made.Hundreds of students pitched tents and began camping out in the center of the famous central campus from early morning on Wednesday in protest,...
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'What just happened in Brussels this afternoon was a disgrace,' Farage wrote on X, formerly Twitter. 'For the Mayor and police to shut down a peaceful political event makes me more convinced of Brexit than ever.'
Times staff report When looking for a children’s book on a local African American hero, Hailey Mason initially couldn’t find one on Richard Arrington Jr., Ph.D., the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama. “I volunteered at some local [Birmingham] elementary schools and I wanted to do a segment on local Black history figures and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York police removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University on Thursday and arrested dozens of protesters. Join our WhatsApp group Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email Several students involved in the protest said they were also suspended from Columbia and Barnard College, including Isra Hirsi, who is the daughter
On Tuesday demonstrators hung a banner outside Sir Keir’s house that read: “Starmer stop the killing,” surrounded by red hand prints. Protesters then laid rows of children’s shoes in front of the door, something that has been done at a number of pro-Palestine protests to signify children killed in Gaza. Leonorah Ward, 21, of Beechwood Mount, Burley, and Daniel Formentin, 24, of Woodside Avenue, Burley, are charged with section 42 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 and for breaching...
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The Lake in the Hills Police Department announced the groundbreaking of their new police station will begin next week on the $26 million facility that will be double the size of the current station. The Lake in the Hills Police Department said the new police department will be built near the current village hall, 600 […]
Mayor Annie Kapandula Kalamatila of Lufwanyama District, Zambia, toured City Hall and sat in on a City Council meeting.