Outsiders Were Among Columbia Protesters, but They Dispute Instigating Clashes
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Outsiders Were Among Columbia Protesters, but They Dispute Instigating Clashes

One of the people arrested at Columbia University this week was a middle-aged saxophonist who headed up to the campus from his Hell’s Kitchen apartment after learning about the protests on social media. Another was tending his sidewalk pepper patch a few blocks from the student demonstrations when he learned…

‘We won’t stop’: How Columbia’s students etched a new Gaza protest legacy | Israel War on Gaza News

‘We won’t stop’: How Columbia’s students etched a new Gaza protest legacy | Israel War on Gaza News

New York, United States — At about 10pm on Monday, April 29, I thought I would call it a night. My student journalist colleagues and I had stayed late into the night on Columbia University’s campus the previous couple of days, reporting on a story that had grabbed the world’s…

Pakistan records ‘wettest April’ in more than 60 years | Climate News

Pakistan records ‘wettest April’ in more than 60 years | Climate News

At least 144 people died due to the heavy rainfall in April. Pakistan has experienced its “wettest April since 1961”, receiving more than twice as much rain as usual for the month, the country’s weather agency has said. April rainfall was recorded at 59.3mm (2.3 inches), “excessively above” the normal…

A Texas Town’s Germanfest Was Split by a Battle Over Beer
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A Texas Town’s Germanfest Was Split by a Battle Over Beer

Muenster, Texas, has hosted a German-heritage festival for nearly 50 years. But then some locals rebelled. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. In Muenster, Texas, a contract dispute exposed deeper worries about changing traditions. By J. David Goodman Photographs by Desiree Rios…