All this time, I thought storming a building – any building (but then again, I could be thinking too much) – was an act of aggression, intimidation, and inherently violent. …The riot — which followed a months-long disinformation campaign by former President Donald Trump and his allies, who claimed without evidence that the election had […]
To borrow from Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, few things are as lasting as a temporary government building. That was driven home this week when the General Services Administration announced it had finalized plans to dispose of the Liberty Loan Federal Building, which when it was completed in 1919 was billed as a “temporary structure” […]
Columbia University threatened Tuesday to expel the students who have taken over an academic building, raising the stakes on the spiraling anti-Israel protests that have brought the Ivy League campus to a standstill. The announcement came shortly after Columbia shutdown its main Morningside campus to everyone but students living in the dorms and essential personnel […]
Yesterday Columbia threatened to suspend students who refused to leave the tent camp and there were some reports that they actually started doing that before the day was out. And yet, as Jazz pointed out earlier, things only got worse as masked students escalated to taking over a building. Now a spokesman for the school […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. and allies are scrambling to pull together a complex system that will move tons of humanitarian aid into Gaza by sea. Nearly two months after President Joe Biden gave the order, U.S. Army and Navy troops are assembling a large floating platform several miles off the Gaza coast that will be […]
Anti-Israel protesters have taken over a building at Columbia University in New York City after reportedly holding hostages briefly. The occupation of Hamilton Hall at about 1 a.m. Tuesday came hours after the college said it would suspend students who refused to leave a tent encampment, according to the New York Post. The initial burst […]
PARIS — Students in Paris inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses in the United States peacefully evacuated a campus building at a prestigious French university late on Friday after days of tensions. The head of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po, said an agreement was found Friday with students. Sciences […]
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that caught fire and exploded, killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday. U.S. Customs and New York Port Authority personnel arrested Noor Noel Kestou, 31, […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Work is set to begin Monday on a $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area, with officials projecting millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028. Brightline West, whose sister company already operates a fast train between Miami and Orlando in Florida, aims […]
FAIRFAX, Va. — A school bus struck a Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles building Thursday morning after swerving to avoid hitting a car, injuring two students and the bus driver, officials said. The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department said in a social media post that three people were taken to a hospital with injuries […]
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