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Police clearing pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University, dozens arrested

By ASHRAF KHALIL
May 08, 2024 6:58 am - Police began to clear a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University early Wednesday and arrested dozens of protesters, hours after dozens left the sit...
Israel says it reopened a key Gaza crossing after a rocket attack but the U.N. says no aid has entered

By JOSEPH KRAUSS, SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN
May 08, 2024 6:56 am - JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said Wednesday that it has reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza, a key terminal for the entry of humanitarian aid that was closed...
Russia hits Ukraine’s power grid with a ‘massive’ attack on a day marking the WWII defeat of Nazism

By ILLIA NOVIKOV
May 08, 2024 6:54 am - KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces unleashed a nighttime barrage of more than 50 cruise missiles and explosive drones at Ukraine’s power grid Wednesday, targeting a wide area...
In Holocaust remembrance, Biden condemns antisemitism sparked by college protests and Gaza war

By ZEKE MILLER
May 07, 2024 4:40 pm - WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday decried a “ferocious surge” in antisemitism on college campuses and around the globe in the months since Hamas attacked Israel...
Deadline for businesses to apply for their share of massive credit card company settlement looms

By MAE ANDERSON
May 07, 2024 3:49 pm - NEW YORK — A deadline is looming for millions of businesses who may be entitled to a payout in a $5.5 billion antitrust settlement with Visa and Mastercard. The settlemen...
Boy Scouts of America changing name to more inclusive Scouting America after years of woes

By JAMIE STENGLE
May 07, 2024 11:26 am - IRVING, Texas — The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history and will become Scouting America. It's a significant shift as th...
Israeli forces seize Rafah crossing in Gaza, threatening aid and putting cease-fire talks on edge

By SAMY MAGDY, MELANIE LIDMAN and LEE KEATH
May 07, 2024 7:27 am - CAIRO — Israeli troops seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing on Tuesday in what the White House described as a limited operation, as fears mount of a full-...
Stormy Daniels describes meeting Trump during occasionally graphic testimony in hush money trial

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
May 07, 2024 7:24 am - NEW YORK —With Donald Trump sitting just feet away, Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday at the former president's hush money trial about a sexual encounter the porn actor sa...
University of Chicago clears a pro-Palestinian demonstration as MIT confronts a new encampment

By CHARLES REX ARBOGAST and STEVE LeBLANC
May 07, 2024 7:15 am - Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday as tension ratcheted up in standoffs with demonstrators at other college campuses around the U.S. — and increasingly, in Europe.
Massive pro-Palestinian college protests bring rare surge in discipline

Laura Meckler, Hannah Natanson, The Washington Post
May 06, 2024 8:17 am - As pro-Palestinian student protests surged in the past week, universities responded with consequences not imposed en masse for decades: suspensions, expulsions and arres...

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