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.