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As a wave of student protests against Israel's war on Gaza continues to spread from coast to coast, schools and law enforcement have responded with increasing brutality to campus encampments. One of the most violent police crackdowns took place at Emory University in Atlanta on Thursday, when local and state police swept onto the campus just hours after students had set up tents on the quad in protest against Israel's war on Gaza as well as the planned police training center known as Cop City. Police used tear gas and stun guns to break up the encampment as they wrestled people to the ground, and are accused of using rubber bullets. Among those arrested were a few faculty members. We hear from two of the arrested professors: Noëlle McAfee, chair of the philosophy department, and Emil' Keme, professor of English and Indigenous studies. We also speak with Palestinian American organizer and medical student Umaymah Mohammad, who describes how Emory has repeatedly suppressed activism on campus since the start of the war in October, and says law enforcement in Georgia work closely with Israeli authorities as part of a police training exchange. "We no longer accept our tuition dollars and our tax money going to fund an active genocide," she says.
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The president's announcement came after months in which he and his campaign declined to say whether he would debate his predecessor.
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 Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesAs the first week of testimony in Donald Trump's criminal trial wrapped up Friday, former tabloid king David Pecker was on the defensive.
Trump defense attorney Emil Bove already faced a tongue-lashing on Thursday from the judge—New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan—over the way Bove was "misleading" the jury as he cross-examined Pecker about the hush-money payments that went to Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
But Bove picked up right where he left off on Friday, asking Pecker detailed questions about specific aspects of Pecker's previous testimony, looking for any inconsistencies in the publishing magnate's recollections to plant a seed of reasonable doubt in jurors' minds.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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