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U.C.L.A. Calls In Police as Clashes Escalate at Campuses

Law enforcement entered U.C.L.A. and other campuses after a tense 24 hours at universities across the country.

 

Scenes From the Protests
  1. University of California, Los Angeles
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  2. University of California, Los Angeles
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  3. Columbia University
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  4. Columbia University
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  5. Columbia University
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  6. Virginia Commonwealth University
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  7. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  8. University of Utah
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  9. Portland State University
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  10. University of New Mexico
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Police Clear Building at Columbia and Arrest Dozens of Protesters

The university said it had “no choice” but to call the police, who led pro-Palestinian demonstrators off campus in zip ties and loaded them into buses.

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Columbia has asked the N.Y.P.D. to stay on its campus through the middle of May.

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As protests escalated on U.S. campuses, officials and students at Brown University set a rare example: They made a deal.

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Florida’s six-week abortion ban takes effect, U.C.L.A. calls in the police and more.

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Analysis

Florida’s Six-Week Abortion Ban Is Now Law, With Political Implications

The ban, which took effect today, was part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s push into cultural conservatism. But Florida politics is rarely that simple.

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Seven hundred miles to the nearest clinic: Here’s how one ban will reshape access in the South.

Two Republican state senators in Arizona have said they support scrapping a 1864 abortion law, enough to ensure its repeal.

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A crowd wearing yellow vests and carrying signs are standing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building. A sign in the front says "We need free birth, not more abortion'.

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The Biden administration is arguing that Idaho’s abortion ban violates a federal law on emergency treatment.

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Blinken Meets With Netanyahu, Hoping to Stave Off Rafah Assault

Secretary of State Antony Blinken pushed for a cease-fire as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled an invasion of Rafah, in southern Gaza.

 

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Here’s why Israel and Hamas haven’t agreed on a cease-fire — and what will determine whether they do.

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Paul Auster, the Patron Saint of Literary Brooklyn, Dies at 77

With critically lauded works like “The New York Trilogy,” the charismatic author drew inspiration from his adopted borough and won worldwide acclaim.

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Paul Auster’s complicated, generous life yielded a body of work of staggering scope and variety, Lucy Sante writes.

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China’s Electric Vehicles Keep Improving, a Worry for Rivals Elsewhere

More capable autonomous driving is just one way Chinese automakers are threatening to pull ahead — their E.V.s are also becoming bigger and roomier.

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Rare Editions of Pushkin Are Vanishing From Libraries Around Europe

Dozens of 19th-century works by Alexander Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. Police are looking into who is taking them, and why.

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A pair of hands in blue rubber gloves holds up a fake copy of a firsts edition of a Pushkin book. The book is held open, showing Cyrillic writing and a black and white image of a young man.

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Contempt Fines and Hush-Money Details: 5 Takeaways From Trump’s Trial

Donald Trump was fined $9,000 for violating a gag order, and a lawyer testified about deals to silence two women who said they had trysts with Mr. Trump.

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Former President Donald J. Trump sitting at a table. Photographers are in front of him.

Firm Defending Donald Trump Seeks to Leave a Long-Running Case

The law firm, LaRocca Hornik, asked to withdraw from a suit by a former Trump campaign surrogate who said she was sidelined in 2016 after revealing her pregnancy.

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The lawyer who represented two women from Donald Trump’s past testified about the hush-money deals both received.

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What to Watch as the Fed Makes Its Interest Rate Decision

Policymakers in the U.S. are expected to leave borrowing costs unchanged, but investors are bracing for signals that rates will stay higher for longer.

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Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, speaking behind a lectern while facing an audience. He has on a purple tie and a navy suit.

The Fed tries to steer clear of politics, but this election year is making it tough.

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India’s Master of Nostalgia Takes His Sweeping Vision to Netflix

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s films are known for splendor, grandiosity and obsessive attention to light and detail. Will that translate to mobile screens?

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Bulgarian Distrust of Russia Simmers Over a Black Sea Oil Terminal

Russia has been losing its grip on the Rosenets Oil Terminal as Bulgarian authorities seek to assert greater control over the Russian-run facility.

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Federal Money Is All Over Milwaukee. President Biden Hopes Voters Will Notice.

White House officials have barnstormed Wisconsin to make the connection between big changes and their signature laws.

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Tom Perez standing at a lectern with a Milwaukee County sign. Other people are standing around him, and a red bungalow is behind him.

Can His Nonviolent Approach to Resistance Survive the War?

Issa Amro, a Palestinian activist who has been arrested and beaten for acts of defiance, is aiming to emulate Gandhi at a time when violence is inescapable.

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Opinion

Daniel Currell

This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity

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Erin M. Sorrell, Monica Schoch-Spana and Meghan F. Davis

The Workers at the Front Lines of Bird Flu

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Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat

Biden Is Not Winning. His Campaign Should Stop Acting Like It Is.

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Jessica Grose

Jessica Grose

The ‘Impossible Life’ of Equal Devotion to Art and Mothering

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Kevin Boyle

Trump’s Trial Can Right a Wrong From 50 Years Ago

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Bret Stephens

Bret Stephens

Sheryl Sandberg Screams Back at the Silence

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Thomas B. Edsall

Thomas B. Edsall

A Huge Gender Gap Is Emerging Among Young Voters

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The killing of the four officers in a quiet suburb, where a running gun battle left neighbors scrambling for cover, brought anguish across the North Carolina city.

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He Won by a Landslide. Why Is He Fighting for His Political Life?

Ben Houchen, a regional mayor in the north of England, faces a close re-election race, partly thanks to the broader troubles of Britain’s Conservative Party.

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Harvey Weinstein to Appear in Court for First Time Since Conviction Was Overturned

The disgraced former Hollywood producer is set to appear in a Manhattan court Wednesday in what could be the first step toward a new sex crimes trial.

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2 Men Are Charged Over the Felling of the Sycamore Gap Tree

Seven months after the beloved 200-year-old tree in northern England was cut down, the police charged two men with damaging it and part of Hadrian’s Wall.

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