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UCLA faces criticism for failure to act to stop attack on pro-Palestinian encampment
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Announcements broadcasted on the University of California, Los Angeles campus have told demonstrators to disperse or they would be arrested and face a misdemeanor charge. The protesters largely stayed in place Wednesday evening. They sat on campus steps chanting pro-Palestinian slogans. Police stood by strapping on riot gear. UCLA posted on the social platform X that campus operations will be limited Thursday and Friday with all classes required to pivot to remote instruction. The post urged people to continue avoiding campus and the Royce Quad area.
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Former Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider is suing the makers of the documentary 鈥淨uiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV" for implying that he sexually abused children. The defamation suit was filed Wednesday in a Los Angeles court aainst Warner Bros. Discovery and other companies behind the four-part documentary. The show uses cast and crew interviews to portray Schneider as creating a toxic work environment and overly sexualizing the kids on his shows including 鈥淎ll That鈥 and 鈥淭he Amanda Show.鈥 But the suit says the series and its trailer unjustly suggest he actually sexually abused the actors he worked with. The defendants didn't immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
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Administrators and campus police at UCLA are facing intense criticism for failing to act quickly to stop an attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus by counter-demonstrators who threw traffic cones and chairs, released pepper spray and tore down barriers. No one was arrested Wednesday. At least 15 protesters suffered injuries in the confrontation, part of a recent spate of escalating violence that鈥檚 occurring on some college campuses nationally over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The call for more police intervention stood in stark contrast to other campuses across the U.S., where officers鈥 actions were strongly condemned.
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A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government鈥檚 role in climate change violated their constitutional rights. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously ordered the case dismissed in 2020, saying that the job of determining the nation鈥檚 climate policies should fall to politicians, not judges. But U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken in Eugene, Oregon, instead allowed the activists to amend their lawsuit and last year ruled the case could go to trial. Acting on a request from the Biden administration, a three-judge 9th Circuit panel issued an order Wednesday requiring Aiken to dismiss the case, and she did.
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BEIJING (AP) 鈥 A section of a highway collapsed after heavy rains in southern China, sending cars tumbling down a slope and leaving at least 36 people dead, authorities said Thursday.
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Student journalists on the Columbia University campus knew what was coming long before police with riots shields arrived to begin arresting the pro-Palestinian protesters who had occupied a building. They had watched the situation spiral as the protesters stood their ground, refusing to abandon Hamilton Hall. Several began sleeping on the floor in journalism classrooms or offices out of fear of missing something. But when a journalism professor began writing the phone number to call if they were arrested in permanent marker on their arms, that was the moment it became clear: They were capturing history.
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Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as 鈥淩ebel Rouser,鈥 鈥淔orty Miles of Bad Road" and 鈥淐annonball鈥 helped put the twang in early rock 鈥榥鈥 roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died at age 86. With his raucous rhythms, and backing hollers and hand claps, Eddy sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and mastered a distinctive sound based on the premise that a guitar鈥檚 bass strings sounded better on tape than the high ones.
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The Arizona Legislature has approved a repeal of a long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions. The vote to undo the 19th century law sent the bill to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. Two Republicans joined with 14 Democrats in the Arizona Senate on Wednesday to give final legislative approval to the repeal, which narrowly won approval a week ago from the Arizona House and is expected to be signed by Hobbs on Thursday. The near-total ban permits abortions only to save the patient鈥檚 life and provides no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest.
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Police killed student outside Wisconsin school after reports of someone with a weapon, official says
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul says police shot and killed a student outside a middle school after receiving a report of someone with a weapon. He said no one else was hurt and the student didn't get inside the building. Kaul spoke Wednesday evening at the first law enforcement briefing on an incident that sent children fleeing amid gunshots earlier in the day. Authorities in Mount Horeb had previously said an active shooter who never got inside was 鈥渘eutralized鈥 outside the district鈥檚 middle school building Wednesday. Kaul said that while police used deadly force, he didn't say how many officers fired weapons or whether the student had fired a weapon.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) 鈥 Trailed by search dogs and police, Mar铆a de Jes煤s Soria Aguayo and more than a dozen volunteers on Wednesday walked carefully through fields of weeds and dry earth with their eyes fixed on the ground.
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Returning briefly to the campaign trail, Donald Trump has called the judge presiding over his hush money trial 鈥渃rooked鈥 a day after being held in contempt of court and threatened with jail time for violating a gag order. The order bars him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his trial, but he is still free to criticize the judge. The former president is visiting the swing states of Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday during his one-day break from court. Trump is trying to achieve a balancing act unprecedented in American history by running for a second term while also fighting felony charges in New York.
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ISTANBUL (AP) 鈥 Workers and activists around the world marked May Day with largely peaceful protests Wednesday over rising prices, low wages and calls for greater labor rights. Pro- Palestinian sentiments were also on display.
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Florida鈥檚 ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy has gone into effect, and some doctors are concerned that women in the state will no longer have access to needed health care. Fertility specialist Dr. Leah Roberts says the anti-abortion laws being enacted by Florida and other red states are being vaguely written by people who don鈥檛 understand medical science. Many women don鈥檛 even know they are pregnant by six weeks. The ban went into effect Wednesday and affects not just women who want to terminate viable pregnancies because of personal choice, but also nonviable pregnancies for women who want to have babies.
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Before and after police officers arrested more than 100 people at Columbia University who were protesting the war in Gaza, New York Mayor Eric Adams blamed 鈥渙utside agitators鈥 for leading the demonstrations. Adams said Wednesday one of them was a woman whose husband was 鈥渃onvicted for terrorism.鈥 But the woman, Nahla Al-Arian, wasn鈥檛 on Columbia鈥檚 campus this week and isn鈥檛 among the protesters who were arrested. Al-Arian told The Associated Press that Adams misstated both her role in the protests and the facts about her husband, Sami Al-Arian, a prominent Palestinian activist. Dating back to the Civil Rights movement, law enforcement officials have long sought to discredit protests by invoking the specter of outside agitators.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with Israeli leaders in his push for a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas to impress on them that 鈥渢he time is now" for an agreement that would free hostages and bring a pause in the nearly seven months of war. The current round of talks appears to be serious, with Hamas considering a new proposal. But the sides remain far apart on the key issue of whether the war should end as part of an emerging deal. In talks with Blinken, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his determination to carry out an offensive on the southern Gaza town of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering.
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An immigrant from Laos who has been battling cancer won an enormous $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot in Oregon earlier this month. But Cheng 鈥淐harlie鈥 Saephan's luck hasn't just changed his life 鈥 it's also drawn attention to Iu Mien, a southeast Asian ethnic group with origins in China, many of whose members fled from Laos to Thailand and then settled in the U.S. following the Vietnam War. During a news conference Monday introducing him as one of the jackpot winners, Saephan wore a sash identifying himself as Iu Mien. Cayle Tern, president of the Iu Mien Association of Oregon, says the win is significant because so many Iu Mien refugees came to the U.S. with nothing.
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Prosecutors have asked for a September retrial for Harvey Weinstein, who was back in a New York courtroom for the first time since his 2020 rape conviction was overturned by an appeals court last week. Prosecutors on Wednesday suggested locking in a date after Labor Day for the retrial. The 72-year-old disgraced movie mogul remains detained because of a 2022 rape conviction in Los Angeles that netted a 16-year prison sentence. Weinstein maintains his innocence. The New York Court of Appeals vacated his conviction Thursday, after concluding a trial judge permitted jurors to see and hear too much evidence not directly related to the charges.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) 鈥 Months of relentless Russian artillery pounding have devastated a strategic city in eastern Ukraine, new drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows, with barely a building left intact, homes and municipal offices charred and a town that once had a population of…
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Do social media users have the right to control what they see 鈥 or don鈥檛 see 鈥 on their feeds? A lawsuit filed against Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is arguing that a federal law often used to shield internet companies from liability also allows people to use external tools to take control of their feed 鈥 even if that means shutting it off entirely. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Meta Platforms on behalf of an Amherst professor who wants to release a tool to let users unfollow all the content fed to them by Facebook鈥檚 algorithm.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) 鈥 Some Kansas lawmakers see a chance to lure Kansas City's two biggest professional sports teams across the Missouri border. But an effort to help the Super Bowl champion Chiefs and Major League Baseball's Royals finance new stadiums in Kansas fizzed over concerns about how…
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Georgian lawmakers move closer to passing 'Russian law' targeting the media. Protesters gather again
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) 鈥 Georgia鈥檚 Parliament moved a step closer Wednesday to passing a law that critics fear will stifle media freedom and endanger the country鈥檚 European Union membership bid, as police used water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray against the tens of thousands of protester…
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It was a Texas veterinarian who collected samples from dairy farms that confirmed the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in cattle for the first time. Dr. Barb Petersen monitors more than 40,000 cattle on a dozen farms in the Texas Panhandle. She received reports from farmers of dead birds, ailing cats and sick cows in early March. She sent samples to a lab to be tested. On farms with sick animals, Petersen says she saw sick people, too. Some experts wonder if anecdotal reports mean more than one person caught the virus from cows. But without confirmation, no one knows if the sick workers were infected with the bird flu virus or something unrelated.
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The wave of incoming rookies such as Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso and the return of popular players A鈥檍a Wilson and Kelsey Plum of the defending champion Las Vegas Aces have led to unprecedented demand for WNBA games on one of the world's largest ticket resale platforms.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) 鈥 President Joe Biden is expected to travel to North Carolina on Thursday to meet with the family members of four officers killed earlier this week in the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 2016.
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United Methodist delegates have repealed their church鈥檚 longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate. They removed a rule forbidding 鈥渟elf-avowed practicing homosexuals鈥 from being ordained or appointed as ministers. Delegates voted 692-51 at their General Conference 鈥 the first such legislative gathering in five years. That overwhelming margin contrasts sharply with the decades of controversy around the issue. Past General Conferences of the United Methodist Church had steadily reinforced the ban and related penalties amid debate and protests. But many of the conservatives who had previously upheld the ban have left the denomination in recent years, and this General Conference has moved in a solidly progressive direction.
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NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Donald Trump this week lamented the possibility that Columbia University's pro-Palestinian protesters could be treated more leniently than the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, marking the second time the former president has invoked the ongoing campus pro…
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NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as 鈥淭he New York Trilogy鈥 and 鈥4 3 2 1,鈥 has died at age 77.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel on Wednesday to press for a cease-fire deal in the Israel-Hamas war, saying 鈥 the time is now 鈥 and warning that Hamas would bear the blame for any failure to reach an agreement to halt the war in Gaza.
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For one day, workers ruled the world鈥檚 biggest streets.
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Just a few minutes into the Indiana Fever's media day, general manager Lin Dunn was asked to compare Caitlin Clark to a pair of Birds 鈥 Sue, who Dunn drafted No. 1 overall in 2002, and Larry, who turned the NBA's Boston Celtics into an instant contender in 1979.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) 鈥 A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti鈥檚 new prime minister is threatening to fracture a recently installed transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for the gang-riddled Caribbean country.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. and TYSONS, Va., May 1, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) 鈥斅燢eel Point, LLC (鈥淜eel Point鈥) is pleased to announce the appointment of Joe Moore to Chief Wealth Officer of the firm鈥檚 Family Office business. Joe joined Keel Point in 2011 and was formerly a Senior Family Wealth Directo…
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Across the United States, the Catholic church is undergoing an immense shift. Generations of Catholics are increasingly embracing religious conservatives who believe the church has been twisted by change. The shift is molded by plummeting church attendance, increasingly traditional priests and growing numbers of young Catholics searching for more orthodoxy. It has reshaped parishes across the country, leaving them sometimes at odds with Pope Francis and much of the Catholic world.
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U.S. stocks are holding relatively steady after the Federal Reserve said it would keep its main interest rate at the highest level since 2001, just as markets expected. The S&P 500 was down 0.1% in Wednesday afternoon trading, roughly where it was before the Fed鈥檚 announcement. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 146 points, and the Nasdaq composite was virtually flat. The Fed acknowledged that it's worried about a lack of further progress in getting inflation down. But Treasury yields eased after the Fed also said that it will slow the pace of how much it鈥檚 shrinking its holdings of Treasurys and other bonds.
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Millions of Americans who have dropped pounds and boosted their health using popular obesity drugs like Wegovy are facing a new dilemma: What happens if they stop taking them?
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Authorities are expanding their investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans to include church leaders suspected of shielding predatory priests and failing to report crimes to law enforcement. Louisiana State Police last week carried out a sweeping search warrant at the Archdiocese of New Orleans targeting a long-secreted cache of church records and communications between church leaders and the Vatican about the handling of clergy sexual abuse claims. The warrant revealed new details about the sex-trafficking investigation. Church officials in New Orleans and the Vatican did not respond to requests for comment.
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NEW YORK, N.Y., May 1, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) 鈥 While some industrious individuals are busy looking for their second act, 90-year-old Sybil Evans, longtime resident of Manhattan鈥檚 Murray Hill section is still going strong, forging ahead into her third with the Sybil Evans Trio. The dynam…
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Across the United States, the Catholic church is undergoing an immense shift. Generations of Catholics are increasingly embracing religious conservatives who believe the church has been twisted by change. The shift is molded by plummeting church attendance, increasingly traditional priests and growing numbers of young Catholics searching for more orthodoxy. It has reshaped parishes across the country, leaving them sometimes at odds with Pope Francis and much of the Catholic world.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥 The Biden administration's move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous but still controlled drug was hailed as a monumental step in reshaping national policy. But it might do little to ease a longstanding problem in the cannabis industry 鈥 a lack of loans, checking ac…
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A student protest movement has washed over the country since police first tried to end an encampment at Columbia University in New York nearly two weeks ago. There have been fiery rhetoric and tumultuous arrests on high-profile campuses from New York to Los Angeles. But millions of students across the country have continued with their daily routines of working their way through school, socializing and studying for exams. The protests are demonstrating wide differences among Americans in 2024, even for groups that have tended to unite during divisive times such as the 1960s. Take Boston, the city most identified with American higher education. Students have set up encampments at at least five campuses. But calm has prevailed elsewhere in the area.
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Utah educators have been rushing to prepare students and staff as the state starts cracking down on any public school found not enforcing new bathroom restrictions for transgender individuals. Utah residents and visitors are required to use bathrooms and changing rooms in government-owned buildings that correspond with their sex assigned at birth. The policy took effect when Gov. Spencer Cox signed it into law in January. It was not widely enforced before a key compliance mechanism began Wednesday. Schools now face steep fines of up to $10,000 per day for each violation. The rollout has been roiled in confusion for families across districts.
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An agreement between anti-war protesters and Northwestern University has largely ended demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on the suburban Chicago campus. By quickly defusing the protests in Evanston and avoiding the longer standoffs that happened on other campuses, the Northwestern deal offered an example of successful negotiations. Brown University announced a similar deal on Tuesday. Administrators at Johns Hopkins University focused talks on limiting student protests to daytime hours. The Northwestern deal lets protests continue through June 1 but bars all tents except one for aid supplies. The pact also prevents people without ties to Northwestern from participating and requires school permission to use loudspeakers or similar devices.
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German tennis legend Boris Becker has been discharged from bankruptcy court in London after a judge found he had done 鈥渁ll that he reasonably could do鈥 to repay his creditors. High Court Judge Nicholas Briggs said in a ruling Wednesday that it would be 鈥減erverse鈥 not to end the case. Creditors say Becker still owed about 42 million pounds ($52.5 million) over an unpaid loan of more than 3 million pounds ($3.75 million) on his estate in Mallorca, Spain. Becker served 8 months in a London prison for illicitly transferring large amounts of money and hiding 2.5 million pounds ($3.1 million) from bankruptcy trustees.
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University of California, Los Angeles, cancels classes Wednesday after overnight clashes between protesters on campus.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. and PLANO, Texas, May 1, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) 鈥 Stack Sports and Cal South have strengthened their ongoing partnership, adding CaptainU as its Official College Recruiting Software to Cal South and its youth soccer community. This continued Stack Sports partnership will …
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F1 champion Ayrton Senna remembered on Imola track 30 years after his death during the San Marino GP
IMOLA, Italy (AP) 鈥 The 30th anniversary of three-time F1 champion Ayrton Senna鈥檚 death was commemorated Wednesday with a memorial on the Imola track where he crashed during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.
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A 6-year-old house cat from Utah likes hiding and playing with cardboard. The combination of the two made for a stressful trip in an Amazon package that led to a California rescue and a tearful reunion. Carrie Clark says her cat went missing on April 10 without a trace. She got a call seven days later with news the cat had been found in a box of work boots that had been returned to an Amazon warehouse in California. Clark realized the cat must have jumped in the box as her husband prepared to return several pairs of boots that he had tried on. Clark says the fact that Galena was microchipped and that Amazon workers called a co-worker who rescues cats helped get Galena back home safely.
