Anti-Israel protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill vandalized the school’s ROTC Naval Armory and other campus buildings as part of a Thursday “Walk Out for the West Bank” event, causing “significant damage,” the school said in a statement. The event, organized by the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and
The Justice Department on Thursday announced it is opening a civil rights investigation into Rankin County, Mississippi, and the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department. A group of the agency’s former officers — who called themselves the “Goon Squad” — pleaded guilty last year to a series of charges for torturing two Black men. “The public is now
Editor’s note: This story contains highly offensive language. Washington — North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor, posted a slew of incendiary, explicit and racist comments on a pornographic website more than a decade ago, according to a CNN investigation released Thursday that has shaken the state’s gubernatorial race. The report
Katrina Armstrong said police sweeps caused ‘harm,’ pledges to develop ‘meaningful engagement’ with protesters seeking Israel divestment Anti-Israel Columbia protesters (Alex Kent/Getty Images), Katrina Armstrong (NIH via Wikimedia Commons) Columbia University’s new interim president, Katrina Armstrong, apologized for the “harm” caused by police sweeps used to clear unruly and illegal encampments and to remove students
The Lugar Center’s bipartisanship rankings placed Wild in the bottom half of House members in 2019 (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Democratic Rep. Susan Wild (Pa.) has made bipartisanship a key pitch in her campaign for reelection in a GOP-leaning House district, claiming at a recent debate that a Beltway think tank ranks her in the “top
VA reported an almost $3 billion shortfall for this fiscal year, along with a $12 billion shortfall for the next fiscal year. The Senate passed a bill on Sept. 19 to give almost $2.9 billion to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amid a budget shortfall, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk for his
‘Some of these votes are cast by military and overseas civilians,’ a professor wrote. More than 300 people have cast their votes early in the 2024 general election, with just about a month and a half to go before Election Day, Nov. 5, according to the University of Florida’s tracking tool. The UF Election Lab’s early