Columbia University President Minouche Shafik may have appeased student activists by letting slide her deadline on removing the anti-Israel protest encampment, but she failed to appease Rep. Virginia Foxx. The Education and the Workforce Committee chairwoman fired off a warning after Columbia officials allowed their Friday deadline to expire without taking action, then ruled out bringing back […]
Police in Northern California said they arrested and charged a homeless man Friday after he knocked out an elderly man and went on to attack the local police chief and tried to steal his squad car. Piedmont police said Willie Gomer, 42, was taken into custody on assault and assault on a police officer charges […]
New York City police said a transgender woman punched a man Saturday seemingly at random on a subway platform in Manhattan. Authorities told local news station WPIX that the 39-year-old victim was attacked around 6:30 a.m. Saturday at Grand Central station. The victim was bleeding from his forehead after the assault, according to police, and […]
BERLIN — Two Ukrainian men were stabbed to death in southern Germany, police said Sunday, and a Russian man was arrested by authorities as a possible suspect in the killings. The two Ukrainians, who were 23 and 36 years old and lived in the southern German county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, were killed on the premises of […]
NEW YORK — From New York to California, students protesting the Israel–Hamas war slept in tents at college campuses, as some universities moved to shut down encampments and arrested dozens of demonstrators. With the death toll mounting in the war in Gaza, protesters nationwide are demanding schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from […]
Artificial intelligence is slowly becoming more involved in everyday life, whether we are aware of it or not. It’s also disrupting everyday life in ways that would have been unimaginable not so very long ago. That’s what apparently happened at a Baltimore County school, where police say the athletic director framed the principal by using […]
At 3:00 AM on Saturday morning, Washington, D.C. police were lined up and prepared to enter the campus of George Washington University to clear anti-Israel protesters from a tent encampment they had built. However, according to the Washington Post, the police got the order to stand down from their […]
NEW YORK — Students protesting the Israel-Hamas war at universities across U.S., some of whom have clashed with police in riot gear, dug in Saturday and vowed to keep their demonstrations going as faculty at several schools condemned university presidents who have called in law enforcement to remove protesters. As Columbia University continues negotiations with […]
The teenage daughter of a high-tech billionaire goes missing, and one’s thoughts go to the possibility of abduction or kidnapping for ransom. Police don’t think that’s the case, but present a different theory that could be just as bad — or even worse. Sixteen-year-old Mint Butterfield was reported missing Monday, The San Francisco Standard reported. […]
Over a week after city and county officials announced the city’s metal Ha’iku Stairs would be removed, the Honolulu Police Department arrested seven people for trespassing. The Ha’iku Stairs, also known colloquially as the “Stairway to Heaven,” were built during World War II, with the summit offering a panoramic view of the island of Oahu. […]
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