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New York law enforcement officials cleared the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University late final night time. Officers additionally used an armored automobile to push a bridge by way of the window of a constructing college students had barricaded themselves in. Police additionally made arrests at The City College of New York, lower than a mile away from Columbia.
Using a tactical automobile, New York City police enter an higher ground of Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after the constructing was taken over by protesters earlier within the day.
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Using a tactical automobile, New York City police enter an higher ground of Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after the constructing was taken over by protesters earlier within the day.
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- NPR’s Brian Mann tells Up First that Columbia college students had been shocked, dismayed, and surprised by the overwhelming pressure utilized by police. Columbia spokesman Ben Chang mentioned in a press convention that protesters had been scary different college students. Mann provides that regardless of this, there’s been lots of neighborhood help for these encampments. Lena Whitney, a City College graduate who witnessed the police motion final night time, instructed NPR, “These students are putting their lives at risk; they’re putting their jobs, their diplomas at risk because they’re fighting for  something bigger — the right to life for Palestinians.”
- At related demonstrations throughout the nation, college members have been more and more defending their college students’ proper to protest. Several professors communicate with NPR about how they’re protecting academic freedom.
- Student calls for differ throughout campuses, however they broadly need their universities to finish investments with — or divest from — corporations that do enterprise with Israel. But does it actually work? Here’s what divestment means, and why universities are saying no.
Stay up to date on campus protests over the Gaza conflict here.
Starting at present, folks in Florida can not entry abortions after six weeks of being pregnant, besides in uncommon circumstances. The restriction replaces a 15-week ban that has been in impact because the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Voters can have an opportunity to alter this restriction in November when a proposal to enshrine abortion rights within the state’s structure will seem on the poll. Until then, the ban has far-reaching results on pregnant folks and abortion suppliers.
- Many well being facilities have prolonged their hours and elevated employees to see extra sufferers, Stephanie Colombini with NPR community station WUSF in Tampa stories. But it is robust as a result of the state requires folks to return in twice for care, and many do not know they’re pregnant by six weeks. Some must proceed their pregnancies or travel far out of state for an abortion as a result of many different Southern states even have bans.Â
The Biden administration is transferring to reclassify marijuana as a much less harmful drug. It’s at the moment categorised as a Schedule I drug, the strictest class. Other Schedule I medicine embody heroin, ecstasy and LSD. The proposal would reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk Schedule III drug — a class that features ketamine, Tylenol with codeine, and anabolic steroids.
- Marijuana would nonetheless be unlawful underneath federal legislation, NPR’s Deepa Shivaram says. But the reclassification would give marijuana companies a tax enhance and open doorways for more types of medical research into the drug.
The science of siblings
A Nazca booby within the Galápagos Islands incubates eggs with its webbed ft.
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A Nazca booby within the Galápagos Islands incubates eggs with its webbed ft.
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The subsequent time you argue together with your sibling, be grateful that your relationship is not a life-or-death one. For many birds, the sibling relationship is lethal critical. Some birds kill their siblings quickly after hatching. Others spend their entire lives with their brothers or sisters and even threat their lives to assist one another.
Read extra tales in regards to the science of siblings here, together with how heat sibling bonds help boost happiness as you age.
Picture present
The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse is one among two “middle-of-the-river” lighthouses left standing on the Hudson River.
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The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse is one among two “middle-of-the-river” lighthouses left standing on the Hudson River.
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation has launched its annual listing of America’s most endangered historic websites. Included on the listing this 12 months are Eatonville, the all-Black Florida city memorialized by Zora Neale Hurston, Alaska’s Sitka Tlingit Clan homes, and the house of nation singer Cindy Walker.
See images of all 11 of essentially the most endangered historic locations within the U.S. and examine how the National Trust hopes the eye will assist efforts to reinvigorate these websites.
three issues to know earlier than you go
Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants made its TV debut 25 years in the past on May 1, 1999 earlier than the official collection launch in July 1999.
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Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants made its TV debut 25 years in the past on May 1, 1999 earlier than the official collection launch in July 1999.
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- SpongeBob Squarepants made his TV debut in a pineapple underneath the ocean 25 years in the past at present. But earlier than then, he was often known as Bob the Sponge in an academic comedian. Take a have a look at SpongeBob’s history.
- Eight each day newspapers, together with The New York Daily News and The Chicago Tribune, have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the tech corporations of utilizing copyrighted articles to coach their AI chatbots.
- Do you have got hassle sleeping? You’re not alone. Here’s what a brand new Gallup ballot reveals about what’s keeping Americans up at night time.
This e-newsletter was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi and Obed Manuel.