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The bipartisan bill includes $60.8 billion for Ukraine; $26.4 billion for Israel and humanitarian aid for civilians in conflict zones, including Gaza; and $8.1 billion for the Indo-Pacific region.
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The Republican speaker appeared on the campus of Columbia University to condemn protesters as antisemitic, and said the school's president and President Biden should take stronger action against them.
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Resupply of artillery ammunition, armored vehicles and air-defense missiles comes after Congress, following months of political gridlock, approves a massive foreign aid package.
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Weapons from the aid package, considered "a lifeline" for Ukraine's military, could be arriving on the battlefield within days.
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The overwhelming bipartisan vote for the long-stalled $95.3 billion aid package capped a tortured journey for the legislation on Capitol Hill. President Biden is expected to quickly sign it.
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Palestinian solidarity protests and encampments are appearing on college campuses from Massachusetts to California to protest Israel's attacks on Gaza and to call for divestment from Israeli apartheid. This week, police have raided encampments and arrested students at Yale and New York University. Palestinian American scholar and New York University professor Helga Tawil-Souri describes forming a faculty buffer to protect students, negotiating with police, and the ensuing crackdown that led to over 100 arrests Monday night. Uptown in New York City, the encampment at Columbia University is entering its seventh day despite mass arrests of protesters last week. "In my opinion, the NYPD were called in under false pretenses by the president of the university," says Joseph Slaughter, professor at Columbia University. "The university is being run as a sort of ad-hocracy at this point, the senior administration making up policies and procedures and prohibitions on the fly, changing them in the middle of the night."
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Calls to curb U.S. support for Israel's war in Gaza over the humanitarian crisis risk being upended by Israel's pressing security needs.
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