NEW YORK — New York University students protesting for Palestinians took over the lobby of the Bobst Library building Friday afternoon, unfurling banners and demanding that the institution divest from Israel.

The move came one week after police cleared a nearby encampment of NYU students, and is the third such occupation led by NYU students ...Read more

NEW YORK — A state judge on Friday evening struck down Nassau County’s controversial sports ban on transgender women and girls, finding that the county’s Republican executive had acted beyond his authority in enacting the ban.

The decision, issued in Nassau Supreme Court by Justice Francis Ricigliano, delivers a significant victory to the...Read more

DENVER — One of the three teenagers accused of being involved in a spree of rock-throwing attacks last year that targeted seven drivers and killed 20-year-old Alexa Bartell pleaded guilty to three felony charges Friday.

Zachary Kwak, 19, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault, second-degree assault and criminal attempt to commit second-degree...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Israel may have violated international law in its war against Hamas but won’t stop the flow of weapons and bombs to a key ally.

The State Department said in a highly anticipated report Friday that although Israel’s reliance on U.S. weapons in Gaza means it’s likely that it breached obligations ...Read more

MIAMI — A decorated U.S. Air Force combat veteran was shot to death by an Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy inside his Fort Walton Beach apartment just seconds after opening the door with a gun in his hand pointed at the floor, according to a police bodycam video released Thursday.

That footage and a FaceTime video that also recorded a ...Read more

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decried “the nastiness and the lies” he and his wife Ginny have “had to endure” in recent years.

“There’s certainly been a lot of negativity for my wife and I in the last few years,” Thomas said Friday at a conference of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Point Clear, Alabama...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The crowd inside the University of Southern California Galen Center erupted in a prolonged symphony of applause Friday as Asna Tabassum — the Muslim valedictorian whose speech was canceled by university leaders amid controversy over her pro-Palestinian views — walked across the stage to accept her diploma during the Viterbi ...Read more

This article was originally published on Dec. 21, 2023 Californians – including minors – are still able to buy flavored electronic cigarettes online, even after the state’s much-publicized ban went into effect. That’s the key finding of my team’s 2023 study, published in JAMA Network Open.

On Dec. 21, 2022, California ...Read more

LOS GATOS, Calif. — One by one, more than a dozen teens laid out in incisive detail how one woman — extraordinarily determined to make her son socially accepted and sexually prolific — hosted booze-soaked parties where she urged them to drink themselves into reckless oblivion.

The bashes, which spanned the first year of the pandemic, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When the University of Southern California canceled the main-stage commencement ceremony, Jewish leaders on campus saw an opportunity.

Before about 19,000 graduates walked across stages Friday to receive their degrees in smaller school satellite ceremonies, USC's Hillel hosted a graduation event for Jewish students and their ...Read more

It was Dec. 19, 1923 – 100 years ago. The first day of Christmas break at the University of Dayton, with fewer than 40 students still on campus.

At 10:30 p.m., the quiet was shattered by a series of explosions, as 12 bombs went off throughout campus. Frightened students discovered that, while damage was minimal, there was an eight-...Read more

The release from prison of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on Dec. 6, 2023, has sparked concern over Peru’s commitment to human rights.

The move came a a day after the Constitutional Tribunal of Peru ruled that the 85-year-old, who was serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity, be freed on humanitarian and ...Read more

Former President Trump Friday vowed to roll back protections for transgender students “on Day One” if he wins the November election.

The ex-president told a conservative radio show that he would reverse an order recently enacted by President Biden that would prohibit discrimination in education on the basis of sexual orientation or gender ...Read more

The estranged husband of a Fort Lauderdale woman who disappeared in Spain must remain jailed without bond because he is a flight risk, a Miami judge ruled following a lengthy hearing Friday.

David Knezevich, 36, appeared before Chief Magistrate Judge Edwin G. Torres Friday afternoon, six days after he was arrested at Miami International Airport...Read more

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort last week to oust U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is the latest Rorschach test for constituents in her Georgia district.

To her supporters, Greene’s effort to remove the Louisiana Republican from his post as leader of the House is evidence that she stands firm on her beliefs.

“She don’t put up ...Read more

ATLANTA — Mia Dieguez entered Dunwoody High School classroom 1102 the morning of May 6 looking sickly. She lay her head down.

“Mia typically slept in class, so when class began, Mia rested her head on her desk,” her teacher would later tell police, according to an incident report. “Mia had appeared ill the previous Thursday and had ...Read more

NEW YORK — As the Donald Trump hush money trial wrapped up for the week Friday, New York Supreme Justice Merchan warned the DA to get Trump’s fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen to dial back his posting on social media about Trump and the case.

Cohen has been outspoken about his feelings on his former boss ahead of his expected appearance next ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the conviction of former Trump adviser Steve Bannon on contempt of Congress charges, rejecting his arguments that he did not need to comply with subpoenas from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Bannon, who was convicted on two contempt ...Read more