Students and demonstrators rallied outside tents at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's central grounds, Polk Place, as part of an encampment protest on Monday. (AP video/Makiya Seminera)
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review an appeal from a group of parents who claimed their suburban Washington-area school district was hiding transgender support plans involving their children.
A set of quintuplets from New Jersey whose parents are Italian immigrants recently graduated from the same college together -- four years after missing their high school graduation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Povolo quintuplets -- Michael, Victoria, Ludovico, Ashley and Marcus are the first generation from their family to go to college and received their degrees from Montclair State University on May 13. The siblings, who were born on July 4, 2002, each had a different major in college, but managed to complete their degrees at the same time, said Victoria during an interview with "Good Morning America."
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (Reuters) -Scores of graduating students staged a walkout from Yale University's commencement exercises on Monday, protesting the Israeli war in Gaza, Yale's financial ties to weapons makers and its response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the Ivy League campus. The walkout began as Yale President Peter Salovey started to announce the traditional college-by-college presentation of candidates for degrees on the grounds of Yale's Old Campus, filled with thousands of graduates in their caps and gowns. Other signs read: "Drop the charges" and "Protect free speech" in reference to 45 people arrested in a police crackdown last month on demonstrations in and around the New Haven, Connecticut, campus.
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Protesters relocated their days-old encampment — including tents and sleeping bags — to the entrance of the university to be closer to striking academic workers.
President Biden spoke about the Israel-Hamas war during his commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday.
Yahushua Robinson was an energetic boy who jumped and danced his way through life. Then, a physical education teacher instructed the 12-year-old to run outside on a day when the temperature climbed to 107 degrees.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended the police department's response to a pro-Palestinian street demonstration in Brooklyn over the weekend, calling video of officers repeatedly punching men lying prone on the ground an “isolated incident.” “I take my hat off to the Police Department, how they handled an unruly group of people.”
Georgia’s government is trying to push through a Kremlin-style ‘foreign agents’ law. But the country’s Gen Z protesters see their futures in Europe, writes Will Cathcart from Tbilisi.
The protest marked the 76th anniversary of the Nabka, when 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes
Pro-Palestinian student protests against the war in Gaza have come to a head in France at Sciences Po – the prestigious international relations school – where students continue to stage demonstrations and the government has become involved, pressuring the university to forcibly shut them down. This comes as protests have erupted on campuses across the United States, but the scale, scope and politics are unique to France. Debates and demonstrations began at Sciences Po soon after Hamas’ attack on
"Your home still exists," the wife of Jason Kelce told graduates as the school prepares to close its doors for good.
School choice has become a touch point this election cycle as groups have thrown hundreds of thousands of dollars into the races.
From sock hops and bell bottoms to low-rise jeans and TikTok dance challenges, each generation has many characteristics and trends that set it apart from the next.
Gregory Gerami said he has remorse over a resignation.
Nine protesters from Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain, arrested during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the University of Athens School of Law last week are set to be deported from Greece, their lawyers said on Monday. Police last week detained a total of 28 Greek and foreign protesters occupying the building, on charges including disrupting the operation of a public entity and assistance in damaging foreign property, according to court documents. The protesters have denied any wrongdoing.
“I hope today’s students and elders heed the old saying, ‘I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’”
The Supreme Court ruling ended the “separate but equal” doctrine, but 70 years later school segregation is growing in major cities.
“The passing of such a bright and energetic young individual is an immense loss that has left a void in all of us,” principal Mike Fedisson wrote in a note to families.
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Tunis on Sunday in support of President Kais Saied amid widespread criticism at home and abroad after a wave of arrests that included journalists, activists and lawyers. The European Union, France and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed concern at the arrests and at a police raid on the headquarters of the bar association this month in which two lawyers critical of the president were detained. Police this month arrested 10 people, including journalists, lawyers and officials of civil society groups, in what was described as crackdown by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, which called on Tunisia to respect free speech and civil liberties.
