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College protests updates: NYPD sergeant accidentally discharged gun at Columbia
The University of California Los Angeles announced classes are "expected to resume in full on Monday," in an update Friday evening."Campus operations will be limited through the weekend, and are expected to resume in full on Monday. Classes continue remote through the weekend. Work, events and research activities are encouraged to remain remote…
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N.Y.P.D. Says Police Officer Accidentally Fired Gun Inside Columbia Building
An officer whose gun went off inside a Columbia University building this week fired it accidentally as the police were removing pro-Palestinian protesters from the campus, the New York Police Department said on Thursday.No one was injured during the shooting on Tuesday, and the bullet ended up in the frame of a wall a few feet away, the N.Y.P.D.…
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The Trump trial isn’t televised. Come inside the courtroom anyway
When former President Donald Trump is in New York City for his criminal hush money trial, he stays in Trump Tower, where his penthouse features glittering chandeliers, plush furniture and gold everywhere. But he spends his days in a very different environment: the drab hallways and an aging courtroom in the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse.The…
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Lawyer for Stormy Daniels Says He Believed Trump Was Behind Hush-Money Talks
The third week of the criminal trial of Donald J. Trump began with a rebuke: The judge, Juan M. Merchan, held the former president in contempt and fined him $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order. He also threatened jail time if the violations continue.That decision on Tuesday, triggered by Mr. Trump’s comments on social media about…
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8 Officers Are Shot, 4 Fatally, While Serving Warrant in Charlotte
Eight law officers were shot on Monday, four fatally, as a U.S. Marshals fugitive task force tried to serve a warrant in Charlotte, N.C., the police said, in one of the deadliest days for law enforcement in recent years.Around 1:30 p.m., members of the task force went to serve a warrant on a person for being a felon in possession of a firearm,…
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Opinion | In High-Energy Shanghai, a New Mood: Malaise
The result has been so steep and unrelenting a fall in real estate prices that elderly people, like my friend’s parents, can’t sell their apartments to pay for nursing or assisted living. And they are hardly the only ones affected by the downturn. Doctors find themselves squeezed — many patients don’t have money for operations — while…
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Harvey Weinstein’s New York Conviction Is Overturned
In a 4-to-3 decision on Thursday, New York’s highest court overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on felony sex crime charges, a reversal that horrified and dismayed many of the women whose decision to speak out against Mr. Weinstein, a prominent Hollywood producer, accelerated the #MeToo movement.The New York Court of Appeals agreed with…
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Melania Trump Reappears, in Black
On Saturday, the day after the jury was impaneled for former President Donald J. Trump’s hush-money trial in New York, Melania Trump finally returned to the presidential campaign trail. The occasion: the Log Cabin Republicans’ fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, at which Mrs. Trump was the guest of honor and addressed the room.Yes, she’s officially back.…
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University protests over Israel-Hamas war in Gaza lead to hundreds of arrests on college
Police broke up a demonstration against Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza on Thursday at Emory University in Atlanta, the latest flashpoint in a growing movement on college campuses around the country. Hundreds of people have been arrested in California, Massachusetts, Texas and other states during the tense protests, following several rounds…
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Blinken Tours China to Promote Some Ties, While the U.S. Severs Others
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken cheered on the sidelines at a basketball game in Shanghai on Wednesday night, and spent Thursday chatting with students at New York University’s Shanghai campus and meeting American business owners. It all went to emphasize the kind of economic, educational and cultural ties that the United States is…
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