Browsing: Protests

Right-wing lawmakers aim to outlaw gender-affirming treatment, describing transgender identities as a “social contagion.”

Former Purdue University president Mitch Daniels said on Sunday that students who protest and break laws should be removed from universities and their spots given to other applicants who were initially denied entry. “I think that the proper consequences here, first of all, are expulsion from the university,” Daniels, who is also the former Republican…

The White House on Friday commended a group of University of North Carolina students who waved the American flag at a protest on campus related to the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked during a briefing if President Biden would think about providing financial assistance to the fraternity members…

Dozens of student protesters at the University of Southern California (USC) were arrested Wednesday night amid escalating tensions on college campuses throughout the country over the ongoing war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. The demonstrators were arrested peacefully, after police gave them warnings to disperse or be detained, The Associated Press reported. Police officers…