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MANHATTAN—The student takeover of Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall continued into Tuesday afternoon, hours after protesters stormed the building and barricaded its entrance.  While the exact number of students inside is unknown, Columbia communications head Ben Chang said “dozens” are occupying the hall, while a student protest leader put the number at 60 during a Tuesday

Bill faces opposition from Dems who prefer definition crafted by progressive activists (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The U.S. House could vote to codify an official and widely accepted definition of anti-Semitism as early as Wednesday, but some Democratic lawmakers are objecting. They prefer a far narrower definition crafted by progressive critics of Israel. The Antisemitism Awareness

Biden admin rule replaces ‘sex’ with ‘gender identity’ and classifies ‘misgendering’ as sexual harassment (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Red states and women’s groups hit President Joe Biden with four lawsuits Monday and Tuesday over his overhaul of the federal Title IX ban on sex discrimination in schools and universities. The rule, slated to take

College Democrats of America, the Democratic Party’s official student organization, on Tuesday endorsed the “protests for peace” across U.S. college campuses amid violent, weeks-long anti-Israel demonstrations that have shut down Columbia University. “This past week, we witnessed heroic actions on the part of students around the country to protest and sit in for an end

New York congressman Jamaal Bowman (D.) shrugged off the anti-Israel rioters at Columbia University who stormed a campus building overnight, smashing windows and causing the campus to effectively shut down in the morning. Bowman said the “protesters are gonna do what they got to do.”  Rioters at the Ivy League university used a hammer to

A Monday poll found that nearly three-quarters of Americans support Israel’s planned military operation to enter the city of Rafah in southern Gaza and eliminate the remaining Hamas terrorists there. Seventy-two percent of Americans think Israel should “move forward with an operation in Rafah to finish the war with Hamas, doing its best to avoid

A new poll this week shows that in Pennsylvania’s Senate race, Republican challenger Dave McCormick has closed more than half of the lead held by incumbent Democratic senator Bob Casey over the past two months. Casey is now leading McCormick by only 4 percentage points—46 percent to 42 percent—with around 12 percent of polled Pennsylvania