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What Columbia's pro-Palestinian protesters are saying 2024-04-30
The New Arab

After midnight in the early hours of Tuesday morning, pro-Palestinian students at Columbia took over Hamilton Hall after the university's administration issued a new wave of suspensions over an encampment in protest of Israel's war on Gaza. In a press release sent at around 2 am, the student...

photo: UN / Evan Schneider

Immigration Named Top U.S. Problem for Third Straight Month 2024-04-30
Gallup

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A steady 27% of Americans say the most important problem facing the U.S. is immigration, topping Gallup’s open-ended trend for the third consecutive month, the longest stretch for this particular issue in the past 24 years. ###Embeddable### The latest results are based...

photo: AP / Andres Leighton, File

In Europe, they cheer passage of Ukraine aid but worry about possible Trump future 2024-04-30
Korea Times

Trudy Rubin BRUSSELS — On April 19, I watched an audience of European and American political officials and strategic experts pay rapt attention as U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy told them Congress would enact a Ukraine aid package that weekend. Minutes later, the attendees at the German Marshall Fund's...

photo: AP / Yakiv Liashenko

U.S. Economic Confidence Falls for First Time Since October 2024-04-30
Gallup

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index is -29 in April, nine points lower than March’s -20 reading. This is the first time in five months that confidence has not seen a marginal improvement, and the first decline in economic confidence in the past seven months....

photo: AP / Gene J. Puskar

US is one of world’s least trade-oriented nations 2024-04-30
Asiatimes

Given the spate of news about international trade lately, Americans might be surprised to learn that the United States isn’t very dependent on it. Indeed, looking at trade as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) – a metric economists sometimes call the “openness index” – the US is one of the...

photo: AP / Axel Heimken

GOP clashes, campus protests to take center stage as Congress returns 2024-04-29
The Hill

Congress is set to reconvene this week amid bitter GOP infighting and explosive protests on college campuses nationwide, two issues that are expected to dominate chatter on Capitol Hill in the coming days. In the House, which returns on Monday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is again in hot water with...

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Florida’s 6-week abortion ban set to take effect this week 2024-04-29
CNN

A stricter abortion law is set to take effect in Florida on Wednesday — dropping the state’s 15-week ban to a six-week ban — and it will likely affect thousands of people seeking abortion care within the first month alone. Florida has become a key abortion access point amid widespread restrictions...

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Oklahoma towns hard hit by tornadoes begin long cleanup after 4 killed in weekend storms 2024-04-29
Wtop

SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) — Small towns in Oklahoma began a long cleanup Monday after tornadoes flattened homes and buildings and killed four people, including an infant, widening a destructive outbreak of severe weather across the middle of the U.S. Punishing storms that began late Saturday in Oklahoma...

photo: AP / Josh Funk

Biden is up against nostalgia for Trump’s first term 2024-04-29
Egypt Independent

CNN — President Joe Biden is casting the 2024 election partly as a referendum on Donald Trump, but it’s a harder card to play now that he’s in office and some voters have warming memories of the former president’s chaotic term. The presumptive GOP nominee is showing progress in gathering the...

photo: AP / Andrew Harnik

Dozens of tornadoes plow central US, at least 5 killed 2024-04-29
The Daily Tribune - Bahrain

An exceptional number of tornadoes have ravaged parts of Oklahoma and nearby Great Plains states, leaving at least five dead, authorities and local media said Sunday. After 78 tornadoes were reported Friday, mostly in Nebraska and Iowa, a separate weather system Saturday brought 35 tornado reports...

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