Thousands of anti-Israel protesters from across the country are expected to rally in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention this week as Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, make their case for the White House. As of Sunday, the Chicago Tribune reports at least seven large demonstrations on issues […]
Police in riot gear swept onto the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, early Wednesday, hours after New York City police retook control of an administrative building at Columbia University as opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza continued to roll through universities across the nation. Video posted on social media showed counterdemonstrators battering […]
Amid growing protests on college campuses by pro-Palestinian demonstrators, the White House is planning for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to have a minimal presence for a traditional rite of spring: delivering commencement addresses. Biden is scheduled to speak at Morehouse College and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in May, […]
Protests over the war in Gaza have taken hold at a handful of elite US universities as officials scramble to defuse demonstrations. Police moved to break up an encampment at New York University (NYU) on Monday night, making a number of arrests. Dozens of students were arrested at Yale earlier in the day, while Columbia […]
Protests in China against government’s strict Covid measures have intensified, with some people publicly venting their anger at the Communist Party leaders. Thousands of protesters have turned out in Shanghai, where people bundled into police cars have been seen. Students have also demonstrated at universities in Beijing and Nanjing. The latest unrest follows a protest […]
Many will recall the summer of 2020 as a summer of protests. They raged night after night, first in Minneapolis and then in cities across the country. In the days and weeks after a video capturing the excruciating final moments of George Floyd’s life went viral, millions of Americans from all walks of life took […]
Chinese authorities on Sunday violently dispersed a peaceful protest by hundreds of depositors, who sought in vain to demand their life savings back from banks that have run into a deepening cash crisis. Since April, four rural banks in China’s central Henan province have frozen millions of dollars worth of deposits, threatening the livelihoods of […]
A large group of rioters was seen in downtown Portland, Oregon smashing windows and vandalizing several buildings Saturday night. The group also graffitied messages targeting the U.S. Supreme Court. The group, made of about 100 people, were yelling and chanting as they marched down the streets and would periodically stop to destroy and graffiti objects. […]
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision Friday morning overturning the 1973 abortion decision Roe v. Wade, which now allows states to make their own abortion laws, and pro-life and pro-choice activists have taken to the streets in cities across the U.S. to allow their voices to be heard. Pro-life activists showed up in […]
Reasoned arguments and constructive discourse are means utilized by parties with opposing views who seek to find compromise or understanding. So, when witnessing the depraved scenes taking place outside houses of worship like St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in NYC Saturday, it’s easy to recognize that their position on abortion and “killing the babies” is one […]
A bipartisan panel on civil liberties at Yale Law School was disrupted last week when more than 100 law students tried to drown out and intimidate the speakers, who eventually needed police to escort them out of the building, according to reports. The school’s Federalist Society hosted the March 10 panel, which featured Monica Miller, […]
Some NFL players continued to protest during the national anthem on Sunday, after President Trump repeatedly criticized the league for its handling of the demonstrations. Seven San Francisco 49ers kneeled during the anthem Sunday. Those players were safeties Eric Reid and Adrian Colbert, linebackers Dekoda Watson and Eli Harold, receiver Marquise Goodwin, defensive lineman Arik […]
