NEW YORK — Columbia University said early Wednesday that it was making “important progress” with pro-Palestinian student protesters who set up a tent encampment and that it was extending a deadline to clear out, yet standoffs remained tense on the Ivy League campus in upper Manhattan. Student protesters “have committed to dismantling and removing a […]
Congress was poised to approve a massive foreign aid package late Tuesday, ending a monthslong stalemate, delivering a massive win to President Biden and deepening America’s commitment to Ukraine and its war with Russia. Once on life support with heavy opposition from House Republicans, the bill experienced a startling revival and was speeding through the […]
Former President Donald Trump accused President Biden Tuesday of being incompetent on Israel-Arab relations as university protests spiral out of control. Mr. Trump, speaking in a New York courthouse hallway, tried to put the focus on Mr. Biden and his handling of the pro-Palestinian protests as he faced another day in his hush money criminal […]
NEW YORK — “Civil War,” Alex Garland’s ominous American dystopia, remained the top film in theaters in its second week of release, according to studio estimates Sunday. The A24 election-year gamble, the indie studio’s biggest budgeted film yet, took in $11.1 million in ticket sales at 3,929 theaters over the weekend. The $50 million film, […]
Columbia University canceled in-person classes Monday and police arrested several dozen protesters at Yale University as tensions on U.S. college campuses continue to grow over the war in the Middle East. The moves at the two Ivy League schools came hours before the Jewish holiday of Passover was set to begin Monday evening. Police officers […]
Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over seven or eight days each year, commemorating the exodus of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in the Bible. To many Jews, it symbolizes freedom and the birth of a Jewish nation. This year, for many Jews, the holiday’s mood will be somber due to […]
OPINION: The nights of Passover are different from all other nights, and this year even more so. Your Jewish neighbors will soon gather to recall their ancestors’ liberation from ancient Egypt and the start of their long journey to Israel, but as your neighbors celebrate this year, they will also grieve. Lately, I’ve been thinking […]
Russian air defenses downed what authorities described as five Ukrainian balloons overnight, the defense ministry in Moscow said Thursday, as the sides kept up long-range strikes that have featured heavily in what has largely become a war of attrition. Neither Russian nor Ukrainian officials have provided details about the secretive balloons, which Moscow authorities and […]
Sydney Sweeney, according to longtime Hollywood producer Carol Baum, “isn’t pretty and can’t act,” and them’s fightin’ words. The fact is that Sweeney is drop-dead gorgeous. There’s a reason that the entertainment industry and its assorted hangers-on plaster her image on every available screen, magazine cover, tweet, etc. In her public appearances — I’ll […]
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is bristling after his failed missile attack against Israel over the weekend. He appeared at a military parade yesterday north of the nation’s capital and issued a stern warning to Bibi Netanyahu, saying that the “tiniest invasion” of Iran by Israel would result in a “massive and harsh” response from his […]
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