Campus protests: NYPD moves in to clear protests at NYU and The New School; more than 2,300 arrested nationwide Follow NBC News' live coverage for updates as police clear pro-Palestinian students from a library at Portland State University and a NYPD officer fired a gun in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. 05/3/2024 - 4:01 pm | View Link
Live Updates on Campus Protests, April 30 The latest news on developments at colleges and universities around the country. 04/30/2024 - 5:31 am | View Link
Police make arrests at Columbia amid wave of university protests Columbia earlier began suspending students who refused to leave a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus grounds after negotiations failed to come to a resolution. 04/29/2024 - 7:27 pm | View Link
Protesters within pro-Palestinian encampment put tents back up in violation with UNC policy On Sunday evening at 6:45 p.m., pro-Palestinian demonstrators on UNC's Polk Place re-erected their tents with the knowledge that the action could escalate the situation during the third day of the ... 04/27/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Protesters Disrupt Tennessee Capitol After Guns for Teachers Bill Passes Tennessee lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow school staff to carry concealed handguns on campus, sparking protesters to rally at the state Capitol in Nashville. Under the ... 04/23/2024 - 2:07 pm | View Link
“Fresh from his criminal trial in New York, Donald Trump delivered a frustrated and often profane roughly 75-minute speech at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Florida on Saturday, attacking one of the prosecutors pursuing him and comparing President Biden’s administration to the Nazis,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “These people are running a Gestapo administration.”
“In his speech, he complained repeatedly about the criminal trial in Manhattan, to which he will return on Monday, insisted that Democrats use ‘welfare’ to cheat in elections and said he would need an attorney general with ‘courage’ as he mocked his former attorney general, William P.
Young America's Foundation, the American version of Hitler's Youth, and the college Republicans at the University of Wisconsin in Madison had collaborated to throw a wild shindig at the Library Mall in Madison. The invitation that they were sharing was something to behold:
They promised there would be American flags, free t-shirts, popsicles, Toby Keith and Freedom!
Well, isn't that interesting?
By Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune
April 29, 2024
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The Colorado legislature convened Saturday for a final weekend of work in its 2024 session, which is set to end Wednesday. Major pieces of legislation are still pending, with lawmakers expected to debate gun regulations, housing, land-use policy, transportation, property tax reform and other priorities in the final days.
This story will be updated throughout the day.
Updated at 5:25 p.m.: A proposed excise tax on guns and ammunition to pay for victim services cleared a key Senate committee Saturday afternoon after Democrats turned on their own over its movement through the chamber.
The measure would create a 6.5% tax on gun and ammo dealers and raise an expected $39 million a year, according to sponsor Sen.
Since Mark Hamill's White House visit tells us how woke Star Wars has gotten, and we all know about wokester Star Trek, Starship Troopers and Helldivers are better choices.