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ATLANTA — Three professors at Atlanta’s Emory University filed a lawsuit Thursday over their arrests during a 2024 campus protest over the Israel-Hamas war, saying the university broke its own free speech policies when it called in police and state troopers to aggressively disband the protest, making 28 arrests. “The judicial system would find that Emory failed to protect its students, to protect its staff, to protect the educational mission of the university,” said philosophy Professor Noelle McAfee, one of the plaintiffs. “So this isn’t just about people’s individual rights. It’s our educational mission to train people in free and…

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release from immigration custody of the family of a man charged in a fatal 2025 firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, against demonstrators supporting Israeli hostages in Gaza. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery in San Antonio said Hayam El Gamal and her five children can be released from a family immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas, as long as El Gamal and her oldest child, who is 18, wear electronic monitoring. Biery denied the government’s request to stay his ruling so it could appeal. One of the family’s lawyers, Eric Lee, posted on X…

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was weighing a taxpayer-funded takeover of Spirit Airlines with the intent of reselling the struggling budget carrier after oil prices drop. The president confirmed his continued interest in offering Spirit a financial lifeline after a lawyer told a U.S. Bankruptcy Court that the airline was in advanced talks with the U.S. government on a financing deal that would allow Spirit to emerge from Chapter 11 protection. “They have some good aircraft and good assets, and when the prices of oil goes down, we’ll sell it for a profit,” Trump said,…

After a school bus rolled on a West Virginia highway two years ago, forcing one boy to have his leg amputated and seriously injuring two other children aboard, police quickly discovered the driver was drunk. But the National Transportation Safety Board then discovered something even more troubling: School bus drivers driving impaired was not an isolated problem. That’s why the NTSB on Thursday recommended for the first time that all new school buses be equipped with alcohol detection systems that can disable the bus if they detect the driver might be impaired. “There’s a higher expectation for school bus drivers…

NEW YORK — The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus. New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators. They boasted eight arms and long bodies that extended more than 60 feet (18 meters), rivaling other carnivorous marine reptiles. “These krakens must have been a fearsome sight to behold,” University of Alabama paleontologist Adiel Klompmaker said in an email. He had no role in the new research. Dinosaur fans know that late Cretaceous-era waters were ruled by sharp-toothed sharks…

KAYLA: Those are the ready-to-go care packages, I actually was going to the post office on Tuesday. KAYLA STEWART IS A MARINE VETERAN. HER DAUGHTER JULISSA IS SERVING IN THE U.S. – ISRAELI WAR IN IRAN, CURRENTLY DEPLOYED WITH THE NAVY IN BAHRAIN. KAYLA: …She loves harry potter so I found a harry potter tooth brush…her favorite gummies…so I got the easter version of those…….these will get to her way after Easter, unfortunately. KAYLA: Just seeing the world, that’s what she wanted to do – see the world. KAYLA: And she chose the Navy. So I’m actually really proud of…

Stocks overcame early losses to finish with slim gains and close out their first winning week since the start of the Iran war. Oil prices remained elevated, however, having soared after a national address late Wednesday from President Donald Trump, where he vowed the U.S. will continue to attack Iran and failed to offer a clear timetable for ending the conflict in the Middle East. A barrel of U.S. crude oil rose to $111.54. Tesla shares fell more than 5% after its deliveries for the first quarter fell short of estimates. Stock markets will be closed for Good Friday. Source…

Brandon Straka, a right-wing commentator, offered an unexpected assessment of Marjorie Taylor Greene at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference.“A directive has gone out that Marjorie Taylor Greene is a traitor,” Mr. Straka told the CPAC crowd, referring to the former congresswoman from Georgia, who broke with President Trump last year after accusing him of drifting away from his “America First” promises. “And if you want to be part of the in crowd, it is mandatory that you must hate her, too.”Mr. Straka was rejecting that directive. From the main stage of CPAC, he gave his audience permission to support…

U.S. stocks had their worst day since the war with Iran started, as doubt took over again from hope on Wall Street about a possible end to the conflict. The S&P 500 fell 1.7% Thursday. The index is headed for a fifth straight losing week, which would be the longest such losing streak in almost four years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 2.4%. They’re the latest flip-flops for financial markets this week after Iran rejected a U.S. offer for a ceasefire. Oil prices rose more than 4%, and Treasury yields climbed in the…

Stephen Miller raised the idea of ending public education funding for undocumented children in a closed-door meeting with Texas lawmakers in Washington last week, a move that would challenge a decades-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent, according to two people who were in the meeting.Mr. Miller, President Trump’s hard-line immigration adviser, cited gridlock in Congress as he encouraged the state lawmakers to pass conservative legislation on immigration and other issues that are crucial to Republicans, hoping such action would spur on other red states and federal lawmakers.Republicans have been bracing for the possible loss of control in the U.S. House after…