The body that represents the University of Southern California’s faculty voted today to censure the university’s president, Carol Folt, and provost, Andrew Guzman, citing both leaders’ mishandling of events around commencement. Read more
Biden’s comments represent his strongest public language to date in his effort to deter an Israeli assault on Rafah. Read more
Israel has threatened a major assault on Rafah to defeat thousands of Hamas fighters it says are holed up there. Read more
It was not clear whether Hamas revealed how many of the 33 are still alive and how many are dead. Read more
Biden joined a heated American debate about Jewish security, Zionism, free speech and support for Israel, in the country with the largest Jewish population after Israel. Read more
Israeli army footage showed tanks rolling through the Rafah crossing complex and the Israeli flag raised on the Gaza side. Read more
A UCLA spokesperson later said that 44 people had been taken into custody. Read more
The Relief Fund, a volunteer-based nonprofit organization that provides free medical care to injured and sick children, said the other children’s journeys would end at hospitals in Ohio, Texas and South Carolina. Read more
The last-minute moves towards a ceasefire came as Israeli forces struck Rafah on Gaza’s southern edge and ordered residents out of parts of the city. Read more
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Columbia spokesperson Ben Chang said the university had sought an alternative venue but was unable to find one that could accommodate the students, families, and guests in attendance. Read more
The encampment had sprouted up nearly two weeks ago in Alumni Park, a central quad on USC’s campus in Los Angeles. Read more
While not a formal famine declaration, World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain said - in an NBC News interview broadcast on Sunday - that based on the “horror” on the ground: “There is famine, full-blown famine, in the north, and it’s moving its way south.” Read more
Some of the demonstrators were students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which is affiliated with the institute, the school said in a statement. Read more
The ceremony did not stop. Neither did the chanting, although how distracting it was might have depended on where people sat in the stadium. Read more
Signaling a possible breakthrough, Hamas said on Friday it would come to Cairo in a “positive spirit” after studying the latest proposal for a deal. Read more
What are typically joyful ceremonies in which robed students cross stages to accept diplomas will have a different feel this month at many universities. Read more
The pre-dawn police crackdown at UCLA marked the latest flashpoint in mounting tensions on U.S. college campuses. Read more
The clashes at UCLA and in New York are part of the biggest outpouring of U.S. student activism since the anti-racism rallies and marches of 2020. Read more
The latest escalation in the students’ demonstration against the war in Gaza also drew censure from Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams, who said they were in communication with university administrators. Read more
White House spokesperson John Kirby today denounced non-peaceful forms of student protests, calling the occupation of campus buildings “the wrong approach.” Read more
While the tents were being set up, dozens of students and demonstrators linked arms, forming a circle around the encampment. They chanted “free, free Palestine” and “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Read more
