Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war that have spread to college campuses nationwide.
"In a rare case, Northwestern University said it reached an agreement with students and faculty who represent the majority of protesters on its campus near Chicago. It allows...
The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation Wednesday that would force the popular TikTok video app to either separate from its Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance or sell the U.S. version of the software.
"Unless journalists and academics regain their moral compass, there will be new and more horrific incidents of genocide against Jews than even those committed by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. The consequences of the media protecting Hamas terrorists with words can indeed be deadly."
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Argentina’s president-elect Javier Milei was traveling Sunday to the United States to meet with U.S. and international lending officials, diplomatic sources told AFP.
Starting Friday, the US government will arrange charter flights to assist American citizens and their immediate family members who have been unable to book commercial transit and seek a safe means of departing Israel, the State Department announces.
@w7voa FYI / #VOA:
Yes, it is ADMIRABLE for US corporations, especially big tech, to allow American workers to come home for now. CEOs take note... #Israel
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so when the sundry UK government ministries, agencies and departments decide to set up their own instances... are y'all gonna #fediblock them by default?
#BBC is a para-governmental organization. they are going to be horrible one way or another; but they are the main communications platform for the UK.
are y'all gonna block #NPR or #PBS as they are para-governmental media for the US? how about Voice Of America #VOA, USGov's #1 international propaganda network? aren't they on #Mastodon?
#Elon can’t make his mind up. #npr now no longer ‘state affiliated’ media… now ‘government funded.’ This all makes no sense at all. Also @VOANews is suddenly labelled government funded too… and yet is a public diplomacy outlet - so it operates in a very different way to @npr Here #twitter and #ElonMusk revealing they have no idea how these broadcasters are governed and what they do. #media#publicdiplomacy 🧵
Also @twitter doesn’t even seem to have a definition in its policies for how it’s applying new ‘Government funded’ label. Does it mean ‘government funded but independent’? If so say so…But I’m not sure #VOA and #NPR can be seen as fully equivalent in purpose here. https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/state-affiliated