Anti-Israel protests linger across college campuses nationwide nearly three weeks after they first appeared at Columbia University.In the chaotic weeks since April 18, more than 2,600 people have been arrested on 50 campuses. The protesters have said they want their schools to cut all ties with Israel over its war in Gaza. Administrators have shown mixed reactions with some universities like UT Austin and Emory University cracking down almost immediately, while others have shown more restraint. ANTI-ISRAEL ENCAMPMENTS SHARE COMMON TRAITS WITH MARXIST REVOLUTIONARIES, BLM AND THE KKK Police block pro-Palestinian protesters from returning to their encampment at the University of Chicago,…

Tyla isn’t afraid to take fashion risks. After The 22-year-old singer graced the steps of the 2024 Met Gala on Monday, May 6, in a sandy Balmain gown, which was modeled to her figure, she chopped her ensemble to a thigh-high minidress. Olivier Rousteing, who is the creative director of Balmain, took to Instagram on Tuesday, May 7, to share a video of him cutting the design inside the gala. In the clip, he kneeled on the ground and proposed to cut the frock to her thighs. Once she gave her stamp of approval, Rousteing began trimming the earthy fabric.…

The Cardinals’ season took a brutal turn Tuesday when a J.D. Martinez swing crushed catcher Willson Contreras’ left forearm, and the three-time All-Star exited with what the team eventually announced as a left arm fracture. With one out in the second inning, Miles Mikolas threw a slider that induced a swing from the Mets’ designated hitter. JD Martinez hit Wilson Contreras’ left forearm on his swing. It resulted in a fractured left forearm. The Cardinals moved Contreras up closer to the plate in an attempt to get more low pitches called strikes.pic.twitter.com/UhB2QUKeHB— Ben Verlander (@BenVerlander) May 8, 2024 But Contreras…

A state cannabis regulator refused to give an estimate of how many illegal pot shops there are in New York while Mayor Adams announced a five-borough “Padlock to Protect” program Tuesday to close down the illicit weed stores. “It’s much larger than we’d like it to be,” Pascale Bernard, the state Office Cannabis Management’s deputy director of intergovernmental affairs, said during a Tuesday meeting at Queens Borough Hall. Borough President Donovan Richards then asked for a “guesstimate” on the number of illicit shops that have been the scourge of neighborhoods across the Big Apple and a thorn in the side of…

A pair of Wisconsin wedding barns sued the state Tuesday seeking to block enactment of a new law that requires them to get liquor licenses similar to other establishments that host events.Owners and operators of wedding barns tried unsuccessfully last year to kill the law that overhauled regulation of the state’s multibillion-dollar liquor industry. The changes had been worked on for years, gaining buy-in from both Republicans and Democrats, large and small brewers, wholesalers and retailers.Farmview Event Barn, located in Berlin, and Monarch Valley Wedding & Events, in Blair, filed the lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Revenue. Patty Mayers,…

A man convicted of killing his landlord’s adult son with a sawed-off shotgun is entitled to a new trial because the presiding judge failed to instruct jurors about a possible self-defense argument, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.A three-judge panel vacated the first-degree murder conviction of Ronald Wayne Vaughn Jr. in the 2017 shooting death of Gary Somerset. Vaughn was on the porch of the Lincoln County trailer he was renting and had the weapon when Somerset yelled “Let’s end this” and rushed at him, according to Tuesday’s opinion. The two and Somerset’s mother had been in a heated…

Jamie-Lynn Sigler is sharing more details about the onset of her multiple sclerosis symptoms. During the Tuesday, May 7, episode of her and Christina Applegate’s “MeSsy” podcast, Sigler, 42, opened up about a health scare she experienced at age 19, about one year before she was diagnosed with MS. “I all of a sudden felt like I had to pee so bad, like a bladder spasm, which I’d never experienced before,” she recalled. “And then I would go to the bathroom and I couldn’t pee.” While Sigler initially thought she might have a UTI, new symptoms appeared a few days…

Olivia Culpo and Christian McCaffrey’s wedding day is almost here. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model and the 49ers running back, who got engaged last April, are set to tie the knot in her native Rhode Island. “The countdown is on,” Culpo, 31, told People in a recent interview. “It’s happening.” The 2012 Miss Universe did not share the exact date, but she hinted the couple’s wedding is near in a number of social media posts. “I’m looking forward to marrying my best friend,” Culpo said of the 27-year-old McCaffrey. “I’m very excited for that next chapter, and I feel very…

Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis indicated Monday that she will refuse to testify before the Georgia state Senate Special Committee investigating whether she misused taxpayer money during her relationship with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade.  “First of all, I don’t think they even have the authority to subpoena me, but they need to learn the law,” Willis said of the Republican-led probe during a press conference.  “I will not appear to anything that is unlawful, and I have not broken the law in any way,” the district attorney continued.   “I’m sorry folks get pissed off that everybody gets…

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for utilities to finish building a high-voltage power line across a Mississippi River refuge.American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative are in the final stages of constructing a 102-mile transmission line linking Iowa’s Dubuque County and Wisconsin’s Dane County. About a mile of the line would cross the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge near Cassville, Wisconsin.WISCONSIN LAWMAKERS VOTE TO AUDIT STATE DEI INITIATIVESA coalition of conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit in March in hopes of stopping the crossing. The groups allege the U.S. Fish and Wildlife…