Concerns about stagflation are growing in the US. It is every central banker’s worst nightmare Over the past few years, the US economy has grown at a rate that seems too good to be true. So, at first glance, Thursday’s gross domestic product report showing the US economy grew at an annual rate of 1.6% in the first quarter of …

What do pro-Palestinian protesters want on college campuses? College campuses across America have been rocked by unrest that has resulted in clashes with police, closed classrooms and drawn national attention. While much of the initial focus has been on antisemitic incidents and how university officials and police responded to the demonstrations, all of this raises a fundamental question: What exactly …

The White House has not bowed to Israel’s support despite the chaos on campus When President Joe Biden visited Virginia to commemorate Earth Day on Monday, he was joined by Senator Bernie Sanders, a key architect of the clean energy proposal that Biden is rolling out. But that’s not the only thing on Vermont’s independent mind. Sanders, according to people …

Protests continued on campuses across the US as more arrests were announced. This is the latest A wave of pro-Palestinian campus protests is raging across the US, with hundreds of people arrested at universities across the country this week. At New York’s Columbia University, the center of the demonstration, protesting students said they would not disperse until the school agreed …

Progress in negotiations between Columbia protesters and administrators, the university said Negotiations between Columbia University administrators and pro-Palestinian protesters who have occupied campus grounds with a sprawling encampment “have shown progress and are proceeding as planned,” the school said in a statement late Thursday. “For several days, a small group of faculty, administrators and University Senators have been in dialogue …

33 people were arrested on the Indiana University campus during the protest, police said At least 33 people were arrested on the Indiana University campus Thursday following a camping protest. Indiana University Police and Indiana State Police said they warned the protesting individuals “repeatedly” to move their structures and they would be allowed to stay. “Following their refusal to comply …

Protesters at Emory University briefly clashed with police Protesters clashed briefly with police at Emory University in Georgia on Thursday, the university told CNN. A confrontation between protesters and police outside the school’s Candler School of Theology prompted an “increased law enforcement presence” on campus, according to the university. “A group of about 100 people left the Quad and marched …

Biden does not plan to visit the Columbia protest while in New York, campaign officials said President Joe Biden will be in New York City on Friday, but White House and campaign officials said there has been no internal discussion about him visiting Columbia University. Some protesters say the Biden administration is complicit in the deaths of thousands of civilians …

What we know about the protests that erupted on college campuses across America College campuses across the United States have erupted with pro-Palestinian protests, and school administrators have tried — and largely failed — to defuse the situation. Tensions on US college campuses have risen since the October 7 Hamas attack, when militants killed about 1,200 people and took more …

The Columbia University Senate is redrafting a resolution to reprimand the school’s president, the New York Times reports Columbia University’s faculty senate is expected to vote Friday on a resolution reprimanding embattled school president Minouche Shafik over some of his recent decisions, including calling the police to clear a student encampment last week, the New York Times reported. The resolution …