U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar‚ D-Minn.‚ praised her daughter Friday‚ a day after the Ivy League college student was arrested in New York City while participating in an anti-Israel protest.  &;quot;I am enormously proud of my daughter @israhirsi‚&;quot; Omar wrote on X.  &;quot;She has always led with courage and compassion‚ from organizing a statewide school walk out on the 20th anniversary of Columbine at the age of 15‚ to leading the biggest youth climate rally at our nation’s Capitol at 16‚ and now...

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) daughter Isra Hirsi announced Thursday she had been suspended from college after taking part in an unauthorized pro-Palestine protest on campus.   “i’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest @ColumbiaSJP‚ in my 3 years at @BarnardCollege i have never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings‚” Hirsi said on social platform X.   “i just received notice that i am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a...

Isra Hirsi‚ the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)‚ was suspended from Barnard College this week over her participation in a pro-Palestinian protest. Hirsi‚ a junior at Barnard‚ the women’s college connected to Columbia University‚ is an organizer with Apartheid Divest‚ a student coalition that has been pressing the university to cut ties with companies that support Israel. The group had set up an encampment at the university. Hirsi said she was one of three students who were suspended...

The Senate reauthorized an anti-terrorism surveillance law just after midnight Friday‚ overcoming objections from lawmakers worried the revamp did not do enough to protect Americans’ privacy. The Senate rushed to vote‚ 60 to 34‚ in favor of the two-year renewal‚ barely missing approving it ahead of the law’s midnight expiration. With the House having passed the bill last week‚ it was set to go to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence...

A man who set himself on fire outside the Manhattan courthouse where former President Trump is on trial died Friday night‚ an NYPD spokesperson told Axios. The big picture: Maxwell Azzarello did not appear to target anyone in particular‚ authorities said‚ but he set himself on fire Friday outside of the high-traffic‚ high-security criminal trial‚ where a full jury was announced. The case over Trump's alleged involvement with hush money paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during his...

A US sailor who served in Japan was found guilty on Friday at a general court martial for attempted espionage‚ failure to obey a lawful order and attempted violation of a lawful general order. The sailor‚ Chief Petty Officer Bryce S. Pedicini‚ will be sentenced on May 7‚ according to a statement from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. “This guilty verdict holds Mr. Pedicini to account for his betrayal of his country and fellow service members‚” NCIS Director Omar Lopez said in the...

Volkswagen workers in the US have voted to join the United Autoworkers Union (UAW) in a massive victory for organised labour in the US. Workers in Tennessee voted 73% in favour‚ according to the union's unofficial vote count on Friday night. It handed the UAW its first election win at a car factory in the American South in decades. Two prior votes at the factory‚ including in 2019‚ had failed‚ after stiff political opposition. But attitudes toward organised labour appear to be...

As artificial intelligence becomes more powerful by the day—Meta Platforms just released its latest model—an important question grows more pressing: Whose values should it embody&;#63; On one end of a spectrum of debate that maps roughly to America’s contentious politics are companies like OpenAI‚ Microsoft and Google. For a host of reasons both reputational and legal‚ these tech giants are carefully tuning their AIs to avoid answering questions on sensitive topics‚ such as how to make drugs‚ or...