Day: April 29, 2024

U7+ Alliance of World Universities urge G7 to increase access to higher education  UCLA Newsroom

The White House says U.S. President Joe Biden has again spoken with Netanyahu as Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to the Middle East. Pressure is building on Israel and Hamas to reach a deal that would free some Israeli hostages and bring a cease-fire in the nearly seven-month-long war in Gaza. It’s being widely reported that the International Criminal Court is preparing to issue arrest warrants for top Israeli and Hamas officials. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday (April 28) issued a fresh plea to the international community to hurry up and deliver more air defenses, start formal talks for his country to enter the European Union, and invite Ukraine to join NATO. And Elon Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday on an unannounced visit. He wants to discuss the rollout of Full Self-Driving software and permission to transfer data overseas.

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If you’ve been following political news at all of late, you know that President Biden’s poll numbers have been slowly but steadily improving of late. One poll after another now shows Biden slightly ahead of Donald Trump. Biden’s lead in recent polls may be uncomfortably narrow, and it’s too early to take the polls seriously anyway, but suffice it to say that it’s not good news for Trump.

So when CNN announced on Sunday that it had conducted a new poll which showed Trump a whopping nine points ahead of Biden, it immediately stood out as a laugh out loud joke. This poll is out of line with all the other polls by a million miles. It’s not to be taken seriously, or even considered at all. The only real question was whether CNN’s fatally flawed poll was the result of extreme incompetence, or some kind of underhanded attempt at chasing ratings. Either way, no serious person would ever give this fake poll a second thought.

Then there’s Donald Trump. He (or his handlers) immediately began bragging about this fake CNN poll on social media, as if it were real. All this does is make Trump look delusional. Worse, if Trump is indeed trying to convince himself that he’s ahead by nine points (or ahead at all), then he’s not going to make any real effort to win.

Trump already seems to be laying the groundwork for losing and convincing himself that it was stolen from him. In other words, he’s giving up. He’s waving the white flag, in favor of delusion. That means that we have an opportunity to put in the work and run up the score, in order to make sure that Biden wins. So let’s get to it.

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(NewsNation) — Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein said she may have suffered a rib fracture after she says she was knocked to the ground and assaulted by police during her arrest at a pro-Palestine protest at Washington University in St. Louis.

“Today I have really sore ribs, I’m going to the emergency room to see whether I have a rib fracture because they were using their bikes as a weapon,” Stein said during a Sunday interview on “NewsNation Prime.” “Basically ramming the handles of the bike into our chests and into my ribcage and trying to flip us over.”

Stein, 73, who was arrested Saturday, spent six hours in police custody and is facing charges of assaulting a police officer. “I wiggled out of that assault, and was told by the officer that I was assaulting him, which is absolutely ludicrous,” Stein said.

More than 100 people — including 23 students and four university employees — were arrested at the protest that called for the university to divest from Boeing and boycott Israeli academic institutions, in addition to other demands.

Stein said she was participating in a peaceful demonstration against U.S. policy in Gaza when police arrested protesters for trespassing and resisting arrest. She condemned the tactics as “the militarization of our police” trained alongside “Israeli military forces” in “anti-humane and abusive tactics.”

The three-time Green Party presidential candidate said she felt “enormous solidarity” with the student protesters, who she praised for risking their futures at the university to demand divestment from weapons companies supplying arms used against Palestinians.

Stein urged President Joe Biden to intervene and “end the genocide in Gaza and the occupation,” saying he needs to “assert the authority of his office” rather than enabling further violence approved by the Israeli government.

Stein’s campaign manager, Jason Call, and deputy campaign manager Kelly Merrill-Cayer, were also arrested according to Stein’s X account.

Stein had attempted to de-escalate the situation between protestors and police but the police were not responsive and began arrests shortly afterward, according to Stein’s X account.

Stein, who is Jewish, in a video said, “we’re going to stand here in line with the students who are standing up for democracy, standing up for human rights, standing up to end genocide.”

Protests are roiling college campuses nationwide as administrators with graduation ceremonies next month face demands that schools cut financial ties to Israel against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war.

Photos showed uniformed police attempting to remove masked protesters as others, also wearing masks, linked arms to thwart the efforts.

Megan Green, president of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, said in a social media post that she was present and the protest remained calm “until the police came in like an ambush.”

The university’s statement defended the action and said protesters “did not have good intentions on our campus and that this demonstration had the potential to get out of control and become dangerous.”

Some arrested also face charges of resisting arrest and assault, including injuries to three police officers, the statement said. Those injuries include a severe concussion, a broken finger and a groin injury.

The Missouri chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned the arrests as “heavy-handed.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Dallas to Premiere New Uvalde Mass Shooting Documentary Print It Black  Dallas Observer

FBI investigates Christian sect over child abuse  ABC News

Law firm drops representation of Dolton, Mayor Henyard amid financial strain and FBI probe  FOX 32 Chicago

Law firm exits Tiffany Henyard, Village of Dolton’s defense amidst financial strain, FBI probe  FOX 32 Chicago