Vice President Kamala Harris encountered an unexpectedly silent response during her Michigan rally on Monday when she asked supporters to shout their own names. Addressing a college-age audience in Ann Arbor, Harris tried to rally the crowd, talking about the importance of unity and individual voice. But her request for each attendee to yell their…
New York City police officers stormed Columbia University late Tuesday evening in a move to end a pro-Palestinian protest that has paralyzed the Ivy League institution for nearly two weeks. The intervention by the authorities came hours after Mayor Eric Adams declared that the demonstration “must end now.”Television footage captured dozens of police officers, equipped…
Pro-Palestinian activists occupied a building at Columbia University early on Tuesday, escalating a battle with administrators who have begun suspending students for refusing to dismantle tents set up on the New York campus. Protesters entered Hamilton Hall – the site of student protests dating back to the 1960s – and suspended a banner reading “Hind’s…
NEW YORK: After days of stalemate in talks seeking end of pro-Palestinian protest on campus, Columbia University on Monday began suspending protestors who refused to dismantle a tent encampment on its New York City campus.University President Nemat Minouche Shafik said in a statement that days of negotiations between student organizers and academic leaders had failed…
