'Stand up for freedom': Pro-Palestinian protesters march across downtown Tempe A large rally of demonstrators marched across downtown Tempe to ASU's Old Main building, calling for Palestinian liberation. 05/4/2024 - 2:01 am | View Link
Encampment raid at NYU, hunger strike at Princeton as campus battles rage across US: Live updates Massachusetts Avenue, which runs in front of MIT, was closed off, diverting city buses on one of busiest local routes between Boston and Cambridge around the protest ... at the encampment and gather ... 05/3/2024 - 5:40 pm | View Link
Phoenix Police Department honors fallen officers at annual ceremony The Phoenix Police Department hosted its 11th annual Phoenix Police Officer Memorial Ceremony at City Hall on Tuesday. 05/1/2024 - 1:06 am | View Link
NYPD clear Columbia campus protest; police break into occupied Hamilton Hall NEW YORK - NYPD police officers in riot gear swarmed Columbia University ... on that April 30 had taken over the hall and other campus buildings for a week to protest racism and the Vietnam War. NYPD ... 04/30/2024 - 5:10 pm | View Link
Police seek tips after man attacked, killed in downtown Phoenix The attack happened just after 11 p.m. on Apr. 16 on Jefferson Street between 11th and 12th Avenue. According to a Silent Witness flyer, 60-year-old Pelimona Paul Rubi died after someone walked up ... 04/29/2024 - 1:59 pm | View Link
“The presidential election may come down to a city in the Midwestern prairie that is home to Warren Buffett — a prospect that is raising hopes among some Democrats that the once-prolific political donor will come off the sidelines to try to power President Joe Biden to reelection,” Bloomberg reports.
“Back in 2016, the Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
“The U. S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine, with the massive outlay being repaid with the windfall profits from sovereign Russian assets that have been frozen – and are accruing interest — mostly in Europe,” Bloomberg reports.
“Republicans have launched more than 30 investigations into the State Department since taking power in 2023, an unusually high number that is fueling partisan tensions,” Politico reports.
“Democratic lawmakers and State Department officials say this particular chapter of the growing partisan rancor on Capitol Hill is affecting U. S. foreign policy: It distracts U.
Nevada Independent: “The lawsuit alleges that the four-day period for mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received violates federal law because it does not conform to the Election Day deadline established by the federal government.”
Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures needed to allow ballot measures that would put abortion before voters.
In South Dakota, organizers have submitted 55,000 signatures in support of the ballot measure granting a limited right to abortion—far more than the 35,000 required.