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Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of college campuses following the arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University. The students are calling for universities to separate themselves from any companies that are advancing Israel’s military efforts in Gaza — and in some cases from Israel itself. Protests on many campuses have been orchestrated by coalitions of student groups. The groups largely act independently, though students say they are inspired by peers at other universities. Here is a look at the protests on campuses in recent days: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Pro-Palestinian student...

“NYU arresting all of their own faculty tonight rather than divest from Zionism basically proves the point that they are a private equity firm and not a university …” – Kareem Estefan “Divest from death” read the bubble letters written in chalk on the sidewalk on April 23 outside of The New School in New York City. The slogan articulates one of the demands of the antiwar protests on campuses which call on colleges or universities to divest their endowments from companies profiting from the Israel-Hamas war. Campaigns to pressure universities to divest for political or ethical reasons go...

Donald Trump on April 25 claimed the fatal 2017 White Nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was “nothing” compared to ongoing pro-Palestinian campus protests. It was his latest burst of rhetoric designed to minimize a bloody and racist incident that was one of the most criticized moments of his corrupt presidency. Speaking in a Manhattan courtroom hallway at the end of his criminal conspiracy and a cover-up trial involving “hush money” payments, Trump spouted accusations against federal authorities. He criticized the Biden Administration – at his criminal trial – for allowing student protesters to set up encampments as they call...

Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin, whose “go everywhere” 2018 campaign strategy became a model for how to win in battleground Wisconsin, knows her road to victory this year against a multimillionaire Republican supporter of former President Donald Trump goes through places like New Glarus. The bucolic village of 2,200, founded by Swiss immigrants and famous for its Spotted Cow craft beer, is a world away from the urban Democratic strongholds of Milwaukee and Madison, where Democrats like Baldwin and President Joe Biden rack up massive margins of victory. “Look, in a state like Wisconsin, a 50-50 battleground state, you don’t...

Hours before gunmen carried out the bloodiest attack in two decades on Russian soil, authorities made an addition to a government register of extremist and terrorist groups: They included the international LGBTQ+ “movement.” That addition to the register followed a Russian Supreme Court court ruling last year that cracked down on gay and transgender people in the country. While the register also lists al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, an affiliate of which claimed responsibility for the concert hall attack, the inclusion of LGBTQ+ activists raised questions about how Russia’s vast security services evaluate threats to the country. The...