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April 26, 2024 - Protests at Columbia and other schools escalate
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Columbia faculty group passes no-confidence measure on school's president
Columbia University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved a vote of no confidence Thursday against university President Minouche Shafik over her handling of the recent pro-Palestinian protests on campus. The vote, organized by the school’s ...The Hill - Politics -
Here's the deflation breakdown for April 2024 — in one chart
Deflation is the opposite of inflation: It's when prices decline. That has largely occurred for goods such as furniture, appliances and cars in the past year.CNBC - Business -
Campus protests have called for schools to divest from Israel. Here's how that would actually work
Protesters on campuses nationwide have called on universities to divest from Israel due to the war in Gaza. Here's how divestment would actually work.CNBC - Business - Israel -
College students who protested and those who didn't share in disappointment at response from schools
After a semester marked by sweeping protests on college campuses across the nation that raised questions about freedom of speech, how universities confront allegations of antisemitism and Islamophobia and how they invest, some students who ...NBC News - Top stories -
Will the 2024 Democratic National Convention mirror the 1968 protests?
A coalition of pro-Palestinian activists is vowing to march without a permit during August's Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In 1968, demonstrators protested the DNC, also held in Chicago that year, over U.S. involvement in the Vietnam ...CBS News - Top stories -
Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 26-June 1
Celebrities having birthdays during the week of May 26-June 1 include actor Laverne Cox, singer Lenny Kravitz and actor Helena Bonham CarterABC News - Entertainment -
Columbia Faculty Group Passes No-Confidence Resolution Against President
Hundreds of professors at the university weighed in on the resolution, which said the president, Nemat Shafik, had committed an “unprecedented assault on student’s rights.”The New York Times - Top stories -
As crisis escalates in Tunisia, lawyers strike over arrested colleague they say was tortured
Lawyers in Tunisia took to the streets on Thursday to protest a string of recent arrests that have convulsed the country over the past week and provoked international outcryABC News - World -
Teen who vanished 26 years ago rescued from neighbor's cellar
Local media reported that the victim said he had been unable to call out for help "because of a spell that his captor had cast on him."CBS News - World -
Algerian man found alive in cellar after 26 years
Officials have arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of keeping him prisoner.BBC News - Top stories
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