Portland State University closed its campus for the second day in a row Wednesday as anti-Israel protesters occupied the college’s main library. The university announced the closure Tuesday in light of an “ongoing incident” at Millar Library, less than 24 hours after protesters broke into the building and barricaded themselves. “I’ve heard your demands and […]
Protesters have been camped out around the Portland State University library for several days. Over the weekend the situation escalated as the protesters (not all of whom are students) began blocking off the entrance to the library. By Monday, school administrators asked the protesters to leave. After a pro-Palestinian protest sprouted at Portland State University […]
A prosecutor who works as the “ethics chief” in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has been charged with illegally using confidential data on sheriff’s deputies. California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Diana Teran, an assistant district attorney, turned herself in over the weekend and was hit with 11 felony counts related to […]
One zebra was still on the loose Tuesday after a group of four escaped from a trailer heading to Montana eastbound on Interstate 90. The others were recaptured with the help of a former rodeo bullfighter. The zebras bolted Sunday when the driver exited their vehicle to secure the trailer, Washington State Patrol Trooper Rick […]
Americans of a certain age may be shocked to realize that the Kent State University shootings happened 54 years ago next month, on May 4, 1970. On that day, in the midst of violent campus protests, National Guardsmen killed four students, igniting a firestorm in a country that was already a powder keg. […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Former Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes has been cleared of ethics charges stemming from allegations that the one-time Democratic rising star abused her access to voter registration data to benefit herself and fellow Democrats. Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ruled Monday that Grimes legally accessed the data while “acting […]
At this point, it might be an understatement to refer to Fani Willis as the embattled district attorney of Fulton County, Ga. She’s had a harsh spotlight on her since she decided to take on Donald Trump and other co-defendants in her investigation, but the revelations of corruption and an inappropriate affair with one […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said on Monday that his state would not abide by the Biden administration’s new guidelines for transgender students in the revised Title IX rules published last week. Texas becomes the second state to defy the Biden administration’s new Title IX rules on transgender students. Last […]
A video that went viral online over the weekend showed what were alleged to be members of an Arizona State University fraternity dismantling an encampment that had been erected by anti-Israel protesters. The video showed police officers standing by as several young men were recorded after dark at the school’s quad discarding tents, tarps and […]
BAGHDAD — Iraq has repatriated hundreds more of its citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria, Iraqi and Syrian officials said Monday. Ali Jahangir, a spokesman for Iraq’s Ministry of Migration and Displaced, said the nearly 700 Iraqis, mostly women and children, arrived late Sunday at a camp […]
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