Police converge on U.S. campus protests
Law enforcement officials arrived on school campuses throughout the U.S., and scores of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had erected encampments and seized buildings have been arrested.
Officers final night time ordered protesters to go away their encampment on the College of California, Los Angeles, or face arrest. A stream of scholars left the encampment after the warning, however tons of remained inside, placing on helmets, masks and goggles as dozens of officers waited close by.
The night time earlier than, violent clashes erupted when a gaggle of about 200 counterprotesters stormed the encampment, pepper-spraying protesters and attempting to demolish barricades. The 2 teams fought till officers quieted the unrest round 3:30 within the morning.
In New York Metropolis, law enforcement officials in riot gear arrested demonstrators at Fordham College’s Manhattan campus, the third college within the metropolis, after Columbia and the Metropolis School of New York, to face mass arrests in 24 hours.
U.Okay. conservatives braced for tough native elections
Voters in England and Wales go to the polls in the present day to elect mayors and native council members, in what is going to inevitably be seen as a barometer for Britain’s coming common elections. Given the Conservative Get together’s dire ballot numbers and the bitter public temper, storm clouds are already forming.
The query will not be whether or not the Tories will lose seats to the Labour Get together — that could be a foregone conclusion amongst pollsters — however whether or not the losses will exceed expectations. A professor of politics on the London College of Economics instructed that if the Conservatives, who’re defending 985 seats in England, can maintain their losses to fewer than about 500 seats, the social gathering devoted will in all probability settle for the setback. However steeper losses, he mentioned, might set off a spasm of panic and even put Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s job in jeopardy.
Arizona repealed a Nineteenth-century abortion ban
Arizona lawmakers narrowly reversed a ban on abortion that grew to become legislation a half-century earlier than girls might vote.
A invoice to repeal the legislation handed within the Republican-controlled State Senate with the help of each Democratic senator and two Republicans. It now goes to Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, who is predicted to signal it on Thursday.
The ban had gathered mud for many years till Arizona’s Supreme Courtroom dominated that it could possibly be enforced after the U.S. Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade. The difficulty galvanized Democrats and created a rift on the precise between anti-abortion activists and Republican politicians who have been fearful a few political backlash.
In Florida, a ban on abortions after six weeks of being pregnant went into impact yesterday.
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Police officers are investigating what they imagine is an enormous, coordinated collection of thefts of uncommon Nineteenth-century Russian books — primarily first and early editions of Pushkin — from libraries throughout Europe. The thieves typically exchange the books with elaborate replicas and spirit them out of libraries.
Since 2022, greater than 170 books valued at greater than $2.6 million have vanished from libraries in Germany, Finland, France, Latvia and elsewhere, in accordance with Europol. The College of Warsaw library was hit hardest, with 78 books gone.
The authorities have arrested 9 folks in reference to the thefts, however who’s behind them stays an open query.
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