Officers with the New York Police Department (NYPD) were clad in riot gear Thursday during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at Columbia University‚ where protesters set up an encampment of dozens of tents on campus. Photos circulating on social media and various media outlets showed dozens of police officers in body armor and face shields lined up around Columbia University Thursday afternoon. Officers arrested dozens of demonstrators Thursday‚ The New York Times reported. NYPD...

More than 100 protesters were cuffed and hauled away from Columbia University when NYPD cops in riot gear swarmed the campus Thursday after the president made the bombshell decision to clear a large anti-Israel protest encampment. Scores of protesters – including some who had to be carried away — were quickly filed onto waiting NYPD corrections buses. A huge crowd of other demonstrators then defiantly swarmed to the police vehicles to temporarily block them from...

NYPD officers arrested more than 100 Columbia University students Thursday after groups protesting the war in Gaza refused to take down a two-day encampment zone. Hundreds of cops flooded the campus in the early afternoon with buses on standby to transport those arrested. Students continued to chant on the lawn throughout the day‚ and began setting up new tents some yards away. “I regret that all of these attempts to resolve the situation were rejected by the students...

Ramesh Singh had been waiting for this day for five years. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made it a tradition to kick off general election campaigns in Mr. Singh’s city‚ and this year was no different. So the sugarcane farmer joined the adoring throngs‚ who are all but guaranteed to deliver Mr. Modi a resounding third-term victory in elections that begin Friday.  “Modi is not just a leader for us; he is like our god. He is the savior of Hindus‚” says Mr. Singh‚ who was at the...

The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution to recognize Gaza as a state. The 15-member council voted Thursday on a draft of a resolution that would recommend that the 193-member U.N. General Assembly recognize Gaza as a state and admit Gaza to the U.N. Twelve nations voted in favor of the resolution‚ two nations abstained‚ and one‚ the United States‚ voted against. 

Lawyers in Donald Trump's historic criminal trial on Thursday selected 12 jurors who will assess his guilt or innocence over the coming weeks in a case stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star. Lawyers for the defense and the prosecution still must select alternate jurors for the trial‚ the first ever in which a former U.S. president is the defendant. Opening statements could take place on Monday‚ said Justice Juan Merchan‚ the judge overseeing the trial.

Twelve jurors have been appointed to decide former president Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial in Manhattan. “We have our jury‚” Manhattan Supreme Court judge Juan Merchan said after the twelfth juror was selected on Thursday afternoon. “Let’s go pick our alternates.” The selection of six alternates remains ongoing. Seven new jurors were picked in quick succession on Thursday afternoon. Hours earlier‚ two other previously-selected jurors were excused.  One juror was...

A jury of 12 people was seated Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s history-making hush money trial‚ propelling the proceedings closer to opening statements and the start of weeks of dramatic testimony. The court quickly turned to selecting alternate jurors‚ with the process on track to wrap up by the end of the week. Prosecutors could begin presenting their case early next week. The jury of New Yorkers includes a sales professional‚ a software engineer‚ a security engineer‚...

Server Flavaine Carvalho was waiting on her last table of the night at Mrs. Potatohead's‚ a family restaurant in Orlando‚ Florida when she noticed something peculiar.The parents of an 11-year-old boy were ordering food but told her that the child would be having his dinner later that night at home. She glanced at the boy who was wearing a hoodie‚ glasses‚ and a face mask and noticed a scratch between his eyes.A closer look revealed a bruise on his temple.So Carvalho walked away from the table and wrote a note that said‚ &;quot;Do you need help&;#63;&;quot; and showed it to the boy from an angle where his parents couldn't see.The boy shook his head‚ no. &;quot;I knew it that he was afraid‚&;quot; she said.Carvalho made two more attempts until the boy nodded yes.The server then called the owner of the restaurant to let her know that she was going to call the police on the boy's parents.“SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING: An Orlando waitress saw a family withholding food from a boy at a table. She noticed bruises on his body and created this sign to secretly ask the child if he needed help. When he signaled &;quot;Yes&;quot; she called us. The stepfather &; mother were arrested.” \u201cSEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING: An Orlando waitress saw a family withholding food from a boy at a table. She noticed bruises on his body and created this sign to secretly ask the child if he needed help. When he signaled &;quot;Yes&;quot; she called us. The stepfather &; mother were arrested.\u201d — Orlando Police (@Orlando Police) 1610638528 The police arrived and arrested the boy's fatheron one count of third-degree child abuse. His mother Kristen Swann was arrested with two counts of child neglect. A four-year-old girl was taken from the family by authorities. They say she showed no signs of abuse.Detectives spoke with the boy and learned his parents frequently withheld food from him as a form of punishment. He was 20 pounds underweight. After searching his body‚ they discovered that he was nearly covered in bruises.His father had recently beat him with a broomstick and back scratcher.The boy told detectives that he was once hung upside down from his ankles in a door frame by his father and had been restrained by being strapped to a furniture dolly.&;quot;To be honest what this child had gone through was torture‚&;quot; Detective Erin Lawler said. &;quot;There was no justification for it in any realm of the world. I'm a mother and seeing what that 11-year-old had to go through‚ it shocks your soul.&;quot; \u201cChief Orlando Rolon‚ @OrlandoPolice‚ with waitress Flavaine Carvalho (middle) who saved an abused 11yo when he was dining with his family. They say the boy was \u201ctortured.\u201d The full details of his salvation on @fox35orlando at 5/6pm. #FOX35 #news #crime #update\u201d — Matt Trezza FOX 35 (@Matt Trezza FOX 35) 1610650833 Carvalho's quick thinking and bravery may have saved the lives of two children.&;quot;This could have been a homicide situation if she had not have intervened‚&;quot; Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolon said.&;quot;The lesson here for all of us is to recognize when we see something that isn't right to act on it… This saved the life of a child‚&;quot; he added.The restaurant's owner‚ Rafaela Cabede‚ hopes that Carvalho's bravery inspires others to look out for signs of abuse as well.&;quot;We understand that this has to encourage other people that when you see something‚ say something‚&;quot; Cabede said. &;quot;We know when we see a situation that is wrong‚ we know what's the right thing to do. We know that speaking up is the right thing to do. But it takes more than acknowledging it. It takes courage.This article originally appeared on 01.15.21