Beryl, which became the first hurricane of the season on Saturday, became the season’s first major hurricane on Sunday with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, and its top winds could reach Category 4 status, forecasters said. As of early Sunday, Beryl was an “extremely dangerous Category 3 hurricane,” according to the latest advisory from […]
BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah vowed Wednesday to intensify its attacks along the Lebanon-Israel border to avenge the killing of its most senior military commander by Israel since the latest round of violence began eight months ago. “Our response after the martyrdom of Abu Taleb will be to intensify our operations in severity, strength, quantity and […]
For months, a police accountability group in Houston demanded that Police Chief Troy Finner resign after he revealed that thousands of cases, including those involving serious offenses such as sexual assault, were dropped over the years due to a lack of personnel. On Wednesday, Mayor John Whitmire announced that Finner was retiring effective immediately — […]
Police in cities and towns across the country have been deployed in recent days to clear pro-Palestinian demonstrators from a growing number of encampments and occupied buildings on the campuses of American colleges and universities. Since April 18, more than 1,500 arrests have been made at over 30 colleges, according to a CNN analysis. In […]
Police in cities and towns across the country have been deployed in recent days to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from a growing number of encampments and occupied buildings on the campuses of American colleges and universities. Since April 18, more than 1,000 arrests have been made at 25 colleges, according to a CNN analysis. In addition […]
A Columbia faculty member who asked to be kept anonymous told Yahoo News that the goal of this afternoon’s Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine protest is to share their frustration with the administration. “There’s a sense among faculty that the administration is running rogue and has trashed all the norms of governance and […]
Pro-Palestinian demonstrations escalated Tuesday at Columbia University, which has been the epicenter of the growing campus protest movement across the nation. On Tuesday night, police cleared out protesters who had occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, detaining many of them. (The same building was occupied in 1968 by students protesting against the Vietnam War.) The […]
It’s been nearly two weeks since police were called in to break up a pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University. Since then, a movement calling for universities to divest financial support for Israel has spread to dozens of campuses across America. The protests often feature tent cities established in green spaces and common areas, and have […]
Pro-Palestinian demonstrations escalated Tuesday at Columbia University, which has been the epicenter of the growing campus protest movement across the nation. Early Tuesday morning, protesters broke windows and occupied Hamilton Hall at the Manhattan campus after defying a Monday deadline to clear the protest encampment. The school had suspended protesters Monday, and is now threatening […]
As a defamation trial brought by former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss advanced late last year, Rudy Giuliani’s attorney largely conceded that his client had gone too far. As part of the defense, however, the lawyer asked jurors to keep the damages to a minimum. A brutal verdict, the defense attorney […]
Robert Kraft, NFL owner and Columbia University donor, is pulling his support for the university. Columbia is being divided by protests over Israel’s war in Gaza. Kraft said he is “no longer confident that Columbia can protect its students and staff.” Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the NFL’s New England Patriots and a Columbia University […]
Thunderstorms intensified early Friday morning making the commute into Dallas-Fort Worth a wet and blustery mess. But a cold front expected to arrive later in the day will push all the moisture to the east and will cool things down considerably with patchy frost expected early Sunday in some parts of the region. “A few […]