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Headlines 9 October 2024

One year since Oct. 7 attack on Israel, US leaders honor victims and protesters march

U.S. leaders marked one year Monday since Hamas militants launched a shocking attack on Israel, murdering more than 1,000 civilians, taking hundreds prisoner and igniting an all-but-declared regional war and a deadly Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip that the U.S. has failed to halt despite months of cease-fire negotiations.

Education 3 May 2024

Biden backs peaceful protest, denounces campus ‘chaos’ over Gaza

President Joe Biden responded Thursday to weeks of protest on college campuses calling for a ceasefire in Gaza with a brief statement that the right to protest should be protected, but “not the right to cause chaos.”

Education 3 May 2024

Hundreds of Ohio college students protest Israel-Hamas war

Ohio colleges and universities have been the site of recent protests over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

In The News 10 April 2024

Norfolk Southern announces $600M East Palestine settlement

Norfolk Southern reached a $600 million settlement in a class action lawsuit filed after a toxic train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. The deal, announced Tuesday, resolves all claims within a 20-mile radius of the accident in East Palestine, Ohio, that unfolded in February 2023.