COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LATEST:
• Hamilton hall has been cleared by police, NYPD says.
• Encampment has been dismantled, according to authorities.
• Roughly 100 arrests so far, authorities say.

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Fifty-six years ago today, New York City police officers stormed Columbia University and arrested nearly 700 student protesters who had taken over five campus buildings — including Hamilton Hall, the building currently occupied by pro-Palestinian activists.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c…

“The Fabelmans” (2022)

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Scoop via Matthew Belloni: Steven Spielberg “has been quietly but actively working with the Joe Biden campaign to help choreograph August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. … participating in multiple strategy sessions on how to best tell the president’s story…”

'Paramount Global’s special committee and David Ellison’s Skydance Media, backed by private equity firms KKR and RedBird Capital Partners, are narrowing in on how to value Skydance’s assets as part of a merger.' Alex Sherman reporting >> nbcnews.com/business/busin…

New exclusive from Tyler Kingkade: “Boys at an American-run school for troubled teens in Jamaica were beaten by adult staff members, forced to exercise until they vomited and placed in stress positions for hours at a time.” nbcnews.com/news/us-news/j…

If you couldn’t follow Day 7 of the Trump trial, read Katherine Doyle’s helpful recap >> nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

Hersh Goldberg-Polin's parents spoke to NBC News:

'We say all the time that hope is mandatory, so it's not really a choice. It's mandatory.'

Raf Sanchez in Jerusalem, Yuliya Talmazan-Beattie in London >> nbcnews.com/news/world/ham…

David Pecker: 'I wanted to protect my company, I wanted to protect myself and I also wanted to protect Donald Trump.'

Adam Reiss Jillian Frankel Gary Grumbach Dareh Gregorian on today's testimony in the hush money trial >> nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

'The Supreme Court indicated that any trial in Trump's election interference case is unlikely to take place anytime soon, with justices expressing concerns about whether certain presidential acts should be off-limits.'

Lawrence Hurley Ryan J. Reilly >> nbcnews.com/politics/supre…

'Biden’s re-election campaign plans to continue using TikTok for at least the next year, despite the president signing a law that would ban the platform nationwide if its China-based parent doesn’t sell it in that timeframe.'

Exclusive from Monica Alba >> nbcnews.com/politics/joe-b…

'Tucked inside the sprawling $95B national security package that President Joe Biden’s signed Wednesday is a provision that could ban TikTok, with an important catch: It won’t happen before the 2024 election.'

Sahil Kapur Scott Wong & Allan Smith >>nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

'For many in Kyiv, the news that the aid package had finally passed Congress offered relief and renewed hope of victory. But a long and difficult fight is still ahead.'

Daryna Mayer in Kyiv, Yuliya Talmazan-Beattie in London >> nbcnews.com/news/world/us-…

'The U.S. provided Ukraine with powerful long-range ballistic missiles for the first time earlier this month, and its military has already used them twice in the last week against Russian forces, according to three U.S. officials.'

Courtney Kube reports >> nbcnews.com/news/world/ukr…

I talked to Owen and Hope, both 14 years old, who are seated with reporters in the overflow room. They took the Subway here together and have followed the case closely.

“I asked Owen how much he would bet that Trump falls asleep in the trial,” Hope said.
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I am grateful to the United States House of Representatives, both parties, and personally Speaker Mike Johnson for the decision that keeps history on the right track.

Democracy and freedom will always have global significance and will never fail as long as America helps to

SCOOP: President Joe Biden will on Tuesday deliver a speech in Florida denouncing that state’s new six-week abortion ban and other efforts to restrict abortion access across the country, according to Biden campaign aides who shared details of the trip first with NBC News.

Israeli forces appear to have carried out a counterstrike on Iran five days after Tehran targeted Israel with a barrage of drones and missiles in an unprecedented attack.

Courtney Kube Mosheh M. Gains Dan De Luce Andrea Mitchell & me >> nbcnews.com/news/world/isr…

New: Bullet-riddled bathroom stalls. Burned-out cars caked in ash. Dusty sandals, shattered eyeglasses, abandoned tents.

All these objects were recovered from the Nova musical festival in Israel after the Oct. 7 massacre. They are now on display in NYC. nbcnews.com/news/world/new…