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Administrators at Columbia University braced themselves over the weekend for planned citywide walkouts marking the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks in Israel and the start of the war on Gaza. In an email Sunday evening, a Columbia Law school administrator told professors to call campus security officers on protesters who did not heed…

In the early morning hours last Friday, Nick climbed out of his bunk at Mountain View Correctional Institution in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, and stepped into a pool of water. As Hurricane Helene unleashed a torrential downpour over Western North Carolina, Nick, whose story was relayed by a relative and who requested to go by…

Palestinians walk amid debris of buildings hit in Israeli strikes near a market in Gaza City in the occupied Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip on Nov. 27, 2023. Photo: Omar El-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images On Tuesday night, CNN reported that Israeli civilians in parts of Tel Aviv were in the potential line of fire…

After Israel dropped more than 80 bombs, including American-made 2,000-lb bombs, on residential buildings in a suburb of Beirut, Hana Bechara, one of 86,000 U.S. citizens who live in Lebanon, decided it was time to leave.  Bechara started to make plans to fly her family to Miami, where her two sisters live. However, flights remained…

St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell is slated to enter Congress in January. He will replace Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., after ousting her in a Democratic primary in August with help in the form of $14 million from the leading pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. As one of his final acts…

Meta is restricting the use of the upside-down red triangle emoji, a reference to Hamas combat operations that has become a broader symbol of Palestinian resistance, on its Facebook and Instagram, and WhatsApp platforms, according to internal content moderation materials reviewed by The Intercept. Since the beginning of the Israeli assault on Gaza, Hamas has…

Digital security appears to be a fixation of New York Mayor Eric Adams and his staff, at least according to his indictment on multiple charges, including soliciting and receiving campaign contributions from a foreign national, bribery, and wire fraud.  But then why were they so bad at it? Case in point: The indictment quotes a text…

The Israeli Defense Tech Conference, aimed at tech companies working with the Israeli military, was scheduled for November at the Google for Startups campus in Tel Aviv. The event, according to a listing posted on the event management app Luma, was pitched at “founders, investors and innovators” looking to network and learn more about the…

After a string of courts failed to intervene and the state’s governor declined to offer clemency, Missouri prison officials executed Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams on Tuesday evening for a 1998 murder he said he did not commit. The state-sanctioned killing was not supported by the family of the victim, former newspaper reporter Felicia Anne Gayle Picus,…