A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina Sunday, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats and chanting 'free Palestine' amid a mix of boos and cheers.
A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina Sunday, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats and chanting "free Palestine" amid a mix of boos and cheers.
Police escorted graduates' families past a few dozen pro-Palestinian protesters who tried to block access to Sunday evening's commencement for Southern California's Pomona College. "We've been time and time again ignored by the institution," Mohmed said outside the Shrine on Sunday. "So today we have to say, it's not business as usual."
Protests at Columbia University, where student uprisings inspired others at campuses across the country, led the school to cancel its main graduation ceremony in favour of smaller gatherings. The Associated Press' education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Air quality advisories are in effect across Western Canada as smoky conditions plague some areas, according to the latest forecasts. Here's where.Many foods fall under the category of ultraprocessed foods, depending on their exact ingredients. This type of food has been studied a lot lately, and the results aren’t great.
Four years on, the controversy over whether airlines owed refunds to passengers after cancelling hundreds of thousands of flights during the pandemic continues to simmer, aggravated by a sluggish, opaque complaints process.Balancing act: Canadian North’s first Inuk CEO juggles Arctic airline challenges
A family of fifth generation farmers from Ituna, Sask. are trying to find answers after discovering several strange objects lying on their land.A Listowel, Ont. man, drafted by the Hamilton Tigercats last week, is also getting looks from the NFL, despite only playing 27 games of football in his life.The threat of zebra mussels has prompted the federal government to temporarily ban watercraft from a Manitoba lake popular with tourists.
The thick wildfire smoke that blew in from the northwest over the weekend has moved out of the Edmonton area and modelling indicates "cleaner" air for Monday/Tuesday in the Edmonton area and all of central and southern Alberta.Childish Gambino is coming to Edmonton. The hip hop artist will bring his "The New World Tour" to Rogers Place on Sept. 29.
After receiving a DNA kit one Christmas from his son-in-law, Hugh McCormick soon discovered that he had six unknown siblings, with whom he shared the same birth parents.A Sarnia man has been charged after an incident involving an encampment on Thursday night. According to police, two people were putting up a small encampment behind a business between Confederation Street and Michener Road in Sarnia.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit a local child care centre in southwestern Ontario.
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