Tension grows on UCLA campus as police order dispersal of large pro-Palestinian gathering Pro-Palestinian protests have been cleared from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Columbia University in New York. Dueling groups of protesters clashed early Wednesday at UCLA in confront ... 05/1/2024 - 4:09 pm | View Link
UCLA faces criticism for failure to act to stop attack on pro-Palestinian encampment Police have swept through other campuses across the U.S. over the last two weeks, leading to confrontations and more than 1,000 arrests. 05/1/2024 - 2:23 pm | View Link
Violence erupts on campuses as protesters and counter-protesters clash over the war in Gaza New York City Mayor Eric Adams says about 300 people were arrested in police crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and City College. 05/1/2024 - 1:31 pm | View Link
Blinken presses Hamas to seal cease-fire with Israel, says 'the time is now' for a deal U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hiked up pressure on Hamas on Wednesday to accept the latest proposal for a cease-fire with Israel. 05/1/2024 - 12:15 pm | View Link
Amazon triples quarterly profit as cloud and ads grow E-commerce titan Amazon on Tuesday said profit in the first three months of 2024 tripled as its cloud, ads, and retail businesses thrived. 04/30/2024 - 9:49 am | View Link
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."