Columbia Student Groups Hold ‘Autonomous Rally’ Outside Campus, Project ‘Escalate for Gaza’ Message on Hamilton Hall

‘The student intifada will live on,’ says the Columbia SJP (Alex Kent/Getty Images) The Columbia University student groups behind the “Gaza Solidarity” encampment held what they called an “autonomous rally” outside campus, where they projected the words “Escalate for Gaza” on the side of Hamilton Hall, the building protesters stormed and occupied earlier in the

Arizona’s Abortion Battle Continues Despite Ban’s Repeal

A proposed constitutional amendment could erase lawmakers’ ability to regulate the procedure. Arizonans’ two-year fight over a near-total abortion ban will come to a close shortly with the law’s impending repeal. But the larger battle over abortion in the state is just beginning, Gov. Katie Hobbs said. “Arizona women should not have to live in

Bob Menendez’s Lawyers Say Senator Hoarded Cash, Gold Because of ‘Intergenerational Trauma’

Lawyers for Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) on Wednesday said the senator hoarded 13 gold bars and nearly half a million in cash at home due to “intergenerational trauma” rooted in his family’s experience as Cuban refugees. Menendez’s legal team argued that hoarding cash and gold bars at home served as a “coping mechanism” for

‘Irrevocably Shaken’: Editors of Columbia Law Review Demand Cancellation of Exams, Citing Trauma Caused by Police Presence on Campus

Editors say the ‘violence’ has left them upset and ‘unable to focus’ Columbia Law School (Wikimedia Commons) The student editors of the Columbia Law Review issued a statement on Wednesday urging Columbia Law School to cancel exams in the wake of the police operation that cleared the university’s unauthorized encampment, saying the “violence” had left