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Today's campus protests aren't nearly as big or violent as those last century — at least, not yet 05/02/2024 10:02pm • In a way, the black-and-white Palestinian scarf draped over Hannah Sattler’s shoulders this week and the tie-dyed T-shirts of 1968 are woven from a common thread. Like so many college students across the country protesting the Israel-Hamas war, Sattler feels the historic weight of the anti-Vietnam Biden says 'order must prevail' during campus protests over the war in Gaza 05/02/2024 08:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday rejected calls from student protesters to change his approach to the war in Gaza while insisting that “order must prevail” as college campuses across the country face a wave of violence, outrage and fear. “Dissent is essential for democracy, A retired teacher saw inspiration in Columbia's protests. Eric Adams called her an outside agitator 05/01/2024 07:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Before police officers poured into Columbia University on Tuesday night, arresting more than 100 people as they cleared an occupied school building and tent encampment, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he received a piece of intelligence that shifted his thinking about the campu ANÁLISIS | Los disturbios estudiantiles agravan un año electoral ya de por sí tenso 05/01/2024 04:52am • (CNN) -- Las dramáticas protestas en los campus universitarios están inyectando un nuevo elemento incendiario en un año electoral que ya amenaza con llevar la unidad nacional a un punto de ruptura.Las tensiones se dispararon a última hora de este martes tras una operación de los equipos de refu Police clear pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall 05/01/2024 12:12am • NEW YORK (AP) — Police officers carrying zip ties and riot shields stormed a Columbia University building being occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters, streaming in through a window late Tuesday and arresting dozens of people. The protesters had seized the administration building, known as Hami Book Review: Novelist Amy Tan shares love of the natural world in 'The Backyard Bird Chronicles' 04/30/2024 04:15pm • Birdwatching has become a cherished pastime for many since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when people stuck at home for months looked out their windows for entertainment and immersed themselves into the natural world, many of them for the first time. Best-selling novelist Amy Tan of “The Joy Supporters, opponents of Minnesota trooper charged with murder confront each other at courthouse 04/29/2024 04:55pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Supporters and critics of a white Minnesota state trooper who's charged with murder for killing a Black motorist confronted each other at a courthouse Monday in an exchange that was heated but peaceful, reflecting the strong emotions that the politically charged case has generat Police officer hiring in US increases in 2023 after years of decline, survey shows 04/28/2024 10:48am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police departments across the United States are reporting an increase in their ranks for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to a historic exodus of officers, a survey shows. More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police 04/27/2024 06:21am • Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived. The 43-year-old was surrounded by police who arrested him after responding to a trespassing call in a Wisconsin parking lot. Officers had shocked him with a Taser and pinned him as he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. Now Paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with ketamine before his death avoids prison 04/27/2024 01:27am • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative avoided prison Friday and was sentenced to 14 months in jail with work release and probation in the killing of the Black man that helped fuel the 2020 racial injustice protests. Jeremy Cooper had faced Minneapolis approves $150K settlement for witness to George Floyd's murder 04/26/2024 12:08pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council has agreed to pay a $150,000 settlement to an eyewitness who tried to intervene to prevent George Floyd’s murder and who says he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result. Donald Williams, a mixed martial arts fighter who testified ag Journalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news organizations 04/26/2024 12:47am • NEW YORK (AP) — This spring, NBC News, The New York Times and National Public Radio have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it inward at their own employers. Whistleblowing isn't unique to any Body-cam footage shows police left an Ohio man handcuffed and facedown on a bar floor before he died 04/25/2024 05:36pm • TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who was handcuffed and left facedown on the floor of a social club last week died in police custody, and the officers involved have been placed on paid administrative leave. Police body-camera footage released Wednesday shows a Canton police officer responding to a DC-area Proud Boys group leader sentenced to over 5 years in prison for attacking police during Capitol riot 04/19/2024 04:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A far-right extremist group leader was sentenced on Friday to more than five years in prison for repeatedly assaulting police officers with makeshift weapons during a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol over three years ago. Scott Miller, who helped lead a Proud Boys chapter for 3 Northern California law enforcement officers charged in death of man held facedown on the ground 04/19/2024 04:06pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Three Northern California law enforcement officers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a man who was pinned facedown during a 2021 incident that drew comparisons to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The charges against James Fisher, Came