Pro-Palestine protesters took down and cleared their encampment at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., on Thursday after agreeing to a deal with the school’s administration.

University president Jonathan Holloway had issued an ultimatum giving the protesters until 4 p.m. to dismantle the encampment and disperse, or face trespassing ...Read more

BOSTON — In a simple sentence, federal prosecutors announced they would abide by an appeals court ruling and take another look to see if the Boston Marathon bomber deserves another death penalty trial.

“This letter is to inform the Court that the government will not be seeking panel rehearing or rehearing en banc of the decision in this ...Read more

NEW YORK — An officer fired off his gun inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall during the NYPD raid Tuesday, police sources said.

A spokesperson with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office Thursday confirmed the office’s Police Accountability Unit had opened a probe into the shooting.

The officers with the NYPD’s Emergency ...Read more

The head of Michigan's largest school district is calling on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and a host of federal, state and local elected leaders to enact immediate policy changes to address the rise of edible marijuana use among underage high school students.

Nikolai Vitti, superintendent of Detroit Public Schools Community ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese telecommunications giant blacklisted by the U.S., is secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities including Harvard through an independent Washington-based foundation.

Huawei is the sole funder of a research competition that has awarded millions of dollars since its ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Long Beach officials declared a public health emergency Thursday afternoon after one person died and nine others were hospitalized because of a tuberculosis outbreak in the city.

The city's chief health officer, Dr. Anissa Davis, said the outbreak was localized to a single-room occupancy hotel, which health officials declined to...Read more

CHICAGO — Illinois state employees fabricated hair salons, paid others to inaccurately fill out forms and drastically inflated income numbers for their side businesses in an effort to fraudulently receive pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program loans, according to recently released reports from the Office of Executive Inspector General.

One ...Read more

Pro-Palestinian protests at U.S. universities are prompting constitutional questions – particularly questions of free speech – and law enforcement responses.

A new federal lawsuit says the demonstrators don’t have the right to free speech when “terrorism” and violence against Jews are taking place at college campuses.

Nine American-...Read more

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — The wife of Dharmesh Patel — who was sitting next to him when the Pasadena radiologist allegedly drove the family’s Tesla off a 250-foot cliff near Devil’s Slide last year — pleaded in court Thursday for her husband to be released from jail and sent home under a mental health diversion program.

The woman, who ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jurors at Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial on Thursday heard audio of him discussing plans to pay hush money to a Playboy model with his former fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen — tying him to the deal his legal team has vigorously sought to distance him from.

“I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Review-Journal has agreed to give prosecutors, police and defense attorneys the majority of data on slain investigative reporter Jeff German’s phone.

“We’ve reached an understanding,” attorney David Chesnoff, one of the lawyers representing The Las Vegas Review-Journal, said during a court hearing Thursday ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — At the University of Pennsylvania’s iconic statue of its founder, Benjamin Franklin, police had dispersed a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters Thursday, only to have a young man break through metal police barricades and rush the statue, scaling it and waving a Palestinian flag high above officers who moved in to stop him.

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NEW YORK — Almost half of the more than 280 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Columbia University and City College this week weren’t students or faculty at the schools, according to data released by Mayor Adams’ administration Thursday.

The issue of whether “outside agitators” were behind the encampment protests at Columbia and ...Read more

CHICAGO — As protests surge across America just months before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, activists representing LGBTQ+ and women’s reproductive rights say Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is violating their First Amendment rights and is unprepared for the onslaught of dissidents headed to the city this August.

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NEW YORK — A faculty group at Columbia University on Thursday called for a vote of no confidence in Minouche Shafik, the newly minted university president whose tenure has been marred by campus protests and criticism of her use of the New York Police Department.

The campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors, a ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — When Boise City Council Member Elaine Clegg stepped down in November to join Valley Regional Transit as CEO, she told The Idaho Statesman that “rail is a big issue of mine” and would be a focus for her in the new role at the regional public transportation authority for Ada and Canyon counties.

“I think there’s a ...Read more

A 45-year-old former aircraft quality auditor has become the second Boeing-related whistleblower to die in the past three months, after allegedly suffering from a sudden bacterial infection.

Joshua “Josh” Dean, of Wichita, Kan., worked for Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and was one of the first people to accuse Spirit of ignoring ...Read more

A search in a Rikers Island jail uncovered a large cache of narcotics, including cocaine, K2 and marijuana in vacuum sealed bags, dozens of fentanyl-soaked papers, cigarettes, tobacco and ceramic blades, the Daily News has learned.

The major seizure Tuesday at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center, shown in a video obtained by The News, has ...Read more