Anti-Israel agitators occupied Columbia University's south lawn hours before University President Minouche Shafik was scheduled to testify before Congress on Wednesday. Dozens of protesters camped out on the campus, calling on the university to divest itself from companies that have ties to Israel. Shafik is set to testify regarding antisemitism …...Read More

If you or someone you know is suffering from abuse, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673. One of two Los Angeles-area women who were brutally attacked in LA's Venice Canals neighborhood on April 6 is speaking out about the horrific and near-deadly crime. Los Angeles authorities have …...Read More

Seven jurors have been selected and sworn in so far to serve on the jury for former President Trump’s historic and unprecedented first criminal trial. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has been charged by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first …...Read More

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is having the House vote on a border security bill alongside his proposal for foreign aid after its lack of measures to deal with the U.S. migrant crisis spurred threats of rebellion from his fellow Republicans. "After significant Member feedback and discussion, the House Rules Committee …...Read More

Senators are set to be sworn in as jurors at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday to begin consideration of the House-passed articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a process that Republicans have warned that their Democratic colleagues will try to quickly end. House impeachment managers officially …...Read More

Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet that is now home to some 8 billion humans and assorted trillions …...Read More

Security for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, will be tight due to potential unrest and terrorism threats, according to police. Pro-Palestinian activists are planning rallies in downtown Malmo, advocating for Israel's exclusion from Eurovision. Sweden elevated its terror threat level to "high" last year due to escalating …...Read More

Russia's veto of a U.N. resolution effectively ended the monitoring of Security Council sanctions against North Korea by U.N. experts. At a Seoul press conference, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the U.S. would work with South Korea and Japan to continue monitoring North Korea's weapons programs. Thomas-Greenfield also said President …...Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left no doubt in a statement on Wednesday, regarding what his Jewish country might do should current tensions with Iran escalate further. "Israel will do whatever it needs to defend itself," Netanyahu said in a statement. The comment came after separate meetings with British Foreign …...Read More

Longtime NPR editor Uri Berliner, who is serving a five-day suspension for blowing the whistle on liberal bias at the organization, announced Wednesday he resigned. "I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years. I don’t support calls to defend NPR. I respect …...Read More