A Pro-Palestinian protest unfolded at Barnard College in New York City on Wednesday, where a small group “forcibly entered” a campus hall and allegedly physically assaulted a school employee, college officials said. A sit-in demonstration was organized Wednesday at Barnard’s Office of the Deans to protest the expulsion of two Barnard students last week for...
It’s a common complaint among cinephiles, but how many of us have sued a movie theater for showing too many trailers? A man in India has successfully won damages from the country’s biggest movie theater in a consumer court after he complained about having to watch too many advertisements before a movie caused him to...
More than half of books banned during the last school year featured or were about people of color or members of the LGBTQ community, according to a report released Thursday. PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, released data in the fall that found more than 10,000 instances of schools...
BANGKOK — Thailand deported 40 Uyghur asylum seekers to China on Thursday, activists and Thai officials said, despite warnings from rights advocates and U.S. officials that they could face torture and imprisonment if they were returned. The Uyghurs, who had been detained for more than a decade, were part of a group of more than...
The Trump administration said it is eliminating more than 90% of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall U.S. assistance around the world, putting numbers on its plans to eliminate the majority of U.S. development and humanitarian help abroad. The cuts detailed by the administration would leave few surviving USAID...
Militant group Hamas said on Thursday it was ready to begin talks on the second phase of a ceasefire in Gaza after several hundred Palestinians were released from Israeli jails overnight in return for the bodies of four Israeli hostages. In a statement early Thursday, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he had ordered a...
States are unsure of how to prepare for the possible elimination of the Department of Education. An important FDA meeting about next season’s flu vaccines is canceled. And NASA is starting a mission to map 450 million galaxies. Here’s what to know today. States brace for Trump’s plans to dismantle the Education Department President Donald...
Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, who face charges in Romania including human trafficking and sexual intercourse with a minor, have left for the U.S. after a travel ban on them was lifted, according to Romanian prosecutors. The Tate brothers, who are dual U.S.-British citizens, were reported by Romanian media to have taken...
Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, who face charges in Romania including human trafficking and sexual intercourse with a minor, have left for the U.S. after a travel ban on them was lifted, according to Romanian prosecutors. The Tate brothers, who are dual U.S.-British citizens, were reported by Romanian media to have taken...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has deployed additional troops to Russia, but the scale of the contingent was not immediately known, South Korean media reported Thursday, citing the country’s intelligence agency. The additional troops have been sent to the battlegrounds in Russia’s Kursk region, the reports said. Russian forces are fighting Ukrainian troops who thrust across the border into...