At Columbia, protesters yelled “disclose, divest, we will not stop” as they broke into Hamilton Hall.

Around the country, pro-Palestinian activists are demanding transparency around school investments.

Experts outline how difficult that can be to trace. nbcnews.com/news/education…

13 years.

.Matthew Miller clarifies reports on looming US-Saudi deal, saying they are “very close” to an agreement on “bilateral pieces” of a larger normalization deal. Notes 3 components: US-Saudi, Israel-Saudi, path to Palestinian state. 'None go forward without the others.”

Esto es lo que está en el centro de las protestas en muchos campus de EEUU: piden a universidades que rompan lazos financieros/inversiones vinculadas a Israel cnn.com/2024/04/30/bus…

The U.S. Department of State confirms my earlier investigation for The Telegraph on the Russian use of chemical weapons in Ukraine - particularly the use of the choking agent 'Chloropicrin' - and imposes additional sanctions against entities involved.

So you agree that people who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted?

J.D. Vance: 'Exactly.'

I’m just checking because you did help raise money for people who did so on Jan. 6th.

'¿Las protestas universitarias le han llevado a reconsiderar alguna de las políticas en la región?'

Presidente Biden: 'No'

'¿Cree que la Guardia Nacional debería intervenir?'

Presidente Biden: 'No'

New: The US military has finally acknowledged that it mistakenly killed a civilian in an airstrike in Syria nearly a year ago after misidentifying him as a senior al Qaeda leader, according to the findings of a probe ordered by CENTCOM last summer.
cnn.com/2024/05/02/pol…

Biden: “Amenazar e intimidar a la gente no es una protesta pacífica. Es ilegal. La disidencia es esencial para la democracia, pero nunca debe conducir al desorden o la negación de los derechos del otro.”

Biden: “No somos una nación autoritaria que silencia a la gente, la protesta pacífica es la mejor tradición. Pero tampoco somos un país sin ley. Somos una sociedad civil y el orden debe prevalecer. Existe el derecho a protestar, pero no el derecho al caos”

Biden: “Las protestas violentas no están protegidas. Las protestas pacíficas sí. Destruir la propiedad no es una protesta pacífica. Va contra la ley. Vandalismo, allanamiento, cerrar el campus, cancelación de clases. Nada de eso es una protesta pacífica.”

Tras días de silencio, se espera que el presidente de EEUU hable hoy de las protestas universitarias. Hasta el momento, Biden ha hecho pocas y breves declaraciones al respecto.

Cambio de última hora en la agenda del presidente Biden, que hará unas declaraciones ahora desde la Casa Blanca.

“The Pulitzer Prize Board would like to recognize the tireless efforts of student journalists across our nation’s college campuses, who are covering protests and unrest in the face of great personal and academic risk.”

In a major new interview with The Economist, five years after he told us about the “brain death” of NATO, Emmanuel Macron explains why he thinks Europe is in mortal danger, and what it can do about this

In The Economist
economist.com/europe/2024/05…

Marjorie Taylor Greene readies move against House speaker
“Every member of Congress needs to take that vote and let the chips fall where they may,” Greene said. “And so, next week I am going to be calling this motion to vacate.” #gapol

ajc.com/politics/polit…

Tonight at Dartmouth’s campus in Hanover, NH

Police arrest nearly 300 Gaza protesters at New York universities – video theguardian.com/world/video/20…

Donald Trump said in an interview that he would not commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election, as he again repeated his lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. w/Michael Gold
nytimes.com/2024/05/01/us/…

Paul Auster, the prolific American novelist behind the acclaimed “New York Trilogy,” has died. He was 77 years old. on.wsj.com/4a2kRJW on.wsj.com/4a2kRJW