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In 1985, protesters had staged their divestment campaign — and it worked. Student protests are escalating there and other college campuses over the Israel-Gaza war and schools’ investments in Israeli entities, with demonstrators on Tuesday breaking into a Columbia campus building and occupying it. In the 1980s, student protesters at Columbia took over the same Continue reading

Just like TV, radio is a pre-internet medium. For people listening to free, ad-supported audio, radio remains dominant, according to Nielsen. But the younger you get, the less likely you are to listen to radio, even compared to other free options. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, Continue reading

WASHINGTON — A dockworkers’ strike threatens to harm shipping, manufacturing, pre-holiday retail inventories — and Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid for the presidency. The International Longshoreman’s Association went on strike at 14 ports along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico at midnight Tuesday, just hours before Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Continue reading

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, NBC News staffers break down what they are watching for at the vice presidential debate. Plus, national Continue reading

Video captures Tesla vehicle bursting into flames as Hurricane Helene floods Florida garage Show Caption Hide Caption Watch: Unsettling video shows Tesla ignite in Helene flooding A Tesla caught fire inside a Florida home’s garage, forcing the family to flee the house. A house in Florida caught fire in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene after Continue reading

Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images The Government is keen to have a statutory inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct, bullying and discrimination in the Defence Forces up and running “as soon as possible”, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. Speaking during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil on Wednesday, the Taoiseach said a report on the Defence Forces Continue reading

But under the facial fuzz, it’s still the same Grylls Irish viewers will recognise from Running Wild with Bear Grylls, Bear Grylls Survival Story and other dollops of small-screen derring-do. He remains, in other words, the light entertainment equivalent of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, bounding into the danger zones relying on nothing beyond a Continue reading

The Republican vice-presidential nominee has repeatedly rebuffed entreaties to lend a hand in the hometown he made famous in “Hillbilly Elegy.” MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — Ami Vitori was tired of politicians using her home city to illustrate the woes of the Rust Belt even as they neglected it outside of campaign season. Advertisement The friend was Continue reading

NEW DELHI: The Army is now exploring the possibility of procuring 350 light tanks, which can also be transported by air, to augment its firepower in high-altitude areas in the backdrop of the continuing military confrontation with China in eastern Ladakh.The Army on Thursday issued an initial Request for Information ( RFI ) to vendors Continue reading

JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran launched at least 180 missiles into Israel on Tuesday, the latest in a series of rapidly escalating attacks between Israel and Iran and its Arab allies that threatens to push the Middle East closer to a regionwide war. Iran said the barrage was retaliation for a series of devastating blows Israel Continue reading