Nearly half of anti-Israel protesters arrested at Columbia, City College weren’t students: police Of the 282 protesters cuffed and hauled away from Columbia University and City of New York campuses, 134 of them had zero affiliation with either school, according to law enforcement sources. 05/2/2024 - 4:15 pm | View Link
A social media break could be good for a woman's body image, study says They found that the women who stopped using social media had a significant boost in self-esteem and body image. Perhaps because those women spent less time comparing themselves to others or replaced ... 05/2/2024 - 10:43 am | View Link
Why are students protesting at Columbia and around the nation? Here's what shaped today's movements Israel-Hamas war protests erupting on college campuses across New York and the nation involve students acutely affected by pandemic-era social disruptions, political dysfunction and recent protest ... 05/2/2024 - 9:41 am | View Link
Social Media Posts Make Misleading Claims About International Student Enrollment In a tweet earlier this week, Jon Feere, director of investigations at the Center For Immigration Studies, claimed that international students make up more than half of the student populations at two ... 05/2/2024 - 8:57 am | View Link
Israel Has Been Going After Israeli Students Too. And It Just Went Further Than Anyone Expected. At these schools, some students have already found themselves in jeopardy, with proceedings that allege they support terrorism for posting protest messages to their social media accounts. So far, some ... 05/2/2024 - 5:41 am | View Link
Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U. S. presidential election, according to a study published Thursday by the nonprofit Brookings Institution.
The report states that Russia is increasingly leveraging TikTok to disseminate Kremlin messages in both English and Spanish, with state-linked accounts posting far more frequently on the platform than they did two years ago.
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Such accounts are also active on other social media platforms and have a larger presence on Telegram and X than on TikTok.
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia as he tried to explain their economic circumstances and contrasted the four with the U. S. on immigration.
The remarks, at a campaign fundraising event Wednesday evening, came just three weeks after the White House hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a lavish official visit, during which the two leaders celebrated what Biden called an “unbreakable alliance,” particularly on global security matters.
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The White House welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi for a state visit last summer.
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(WASHINGTON) — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday.
Scientists observed Rakus pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation.
When Kabul fell to the Taliban, returning the country to the fundamentalist group’s control after two transformative decades, scores of Afghan women were compelled to flee. Those who remained faced a reality in which they could no longer be who they are: journalists deleted evidence of their work, artists destroyed their creations, and graduates set fire to their degrees.
While the Taliban forced many Afghan women to abandon their workplaces and universities, some chose to fight back.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
The British royal family is celebrating Princess Charlotte’s 9th birthday with a new portrait taken by her mother, Kate Middleton.
The image—shared to the official Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) accounts of the Prince and Princess of Wales on Thursday morning—shows Charlotte in a garden, smiling beside a pink flower bush.