House Speaker Mike Johnson told student protesters at Columbia University on Wednesday to “enjoy” their free speech before declaring that he would urge President Joe Biden to deploy the National Guard to universities and colleges across the country — where students are being arrested en masse in an increasingly violent …
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Self-avowed pro-First Amendment, anti-government repression Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) are demanding President Joe Biden unleash the full force of the state’s National Guard to suppress pro-Palestinian student protests at Columbia University. “If [New York City Mayor] Eric Adams won’t send the NYPD and [New York Governor] …
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A devastating photo of a woman grievously holding the body of her late five-year-old niece in the Gaza Strip won the World Press Photo of the Year award. Reuters, which originally published the picture, reported the news from Amsterdam, where the awards ceremony took place on Thursday. Photographer Mohammed Salem, …
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New York police arrested dozens of protesters and students at Columbia University, as campus administration cracks down on pro-Palestinian protests in the aftermath of testimony by university officials before Congress. Police cleared an encampment of demonstrators on Columbia’s Morningside campus on Thursday, after University President Nemat Shafik sicced law enforcement …
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Iran launched more than 200 drones and ballistic missiles in an attack on Israel on Saturday night, The New York Times reports. A spokesman for the Israeli military, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said most of the aerial assault had been intercepted with assistance from allies, including the United States. Tensions …
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Last month, a judge tossed a lawsuit from Elon Musk‘s X (formerly Twitter) against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, an anti-extremism watchdog, that alleged the group had financially harmed the company by reporting on violent and hateful speech proliferating across its platform. The ruling stated in no uncertain terms …
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After the moon drifted across the surface of the sun on Monday, its shadow crossing the United States, Mexico and Canada, Jon Stewart took to late night television to point out how certain members of the media and politicians had used the solar eclipse to pontificate on immigration and the …
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Last week’s killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers by Israeli air strikes is by no means the first time staffers for the humanitarian group have had a brush with Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza. According to a report from NBC News, on at least two occasions preceding the …
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Following the killing of seven World Central Kitchen workers by an Israeli strikewhile delivering food toGazaearlier this week, House Democrats wrote a letter on Friday to U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging them to halt the the transfer of weapons to Israel until a full …
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The Israeli Defense Forces has fired two officers it charges with having misidentified a convoy of seven World Central Kitchen staffers who were killed by Israeli airstrikes earlier this month. The international aid organization called the decision “cold comfort,” in the face of Israel’s failure to make concrete commitments to …
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