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Donald Trump's New York hush money criminal trial continues Tuesday. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
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The Democratic primary for Representative Summer Lee, a vocal Israel critic, is the contest getting the most attention on Tuesday.
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 Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty ImagesColumbia Journalism School alumni descended into a heated row last week after a film director and producer who graduated from the school referred to some campus demonstrators as "murderous crackpots" and "pro-terror wack jobs," prompting fierce backlash from other alumni in a Facebook thread.
Norman Green, a 67-year-old Brooklyn-based producer and director who worked on True Life and Paranormal State—among other television shows, came under fire Thursday after responding to a message condemning the arrests of some 100 demonstrators protesting against the war in Gaza last week.
"These protesters are unhinged. Nihilistic, pro-terror wack jobs. I'll post a link," Green wrote on a Columbia alumni Facebook thread reviewed by The Daily Beast, linking to several videos from the campus protests. "Maybe murderous, genocidal narcissists merit a response"
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for PEN AmericaWriters group PEN America has canceled its 2024 literary awards ceremony following months of protests by pro-Palestine writers who criticized its stance on Gaza as milquetoast and too sympathetic to Israel.
Instead of holding the planned April 29 Manhattan event, PEN America released the names of its finalists and winners. Some authors had chosen to withdraw their names from consideration in the nominee pool, but PEN said they had selected winners before the exits were made.
In a release, the organization's Literary Programming Chief Officer, Rosaz Shariyf, called it a "very difficult decision" not to move forward with the public celebration.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The president made the statement after a rabbi encouraged Jewish students to leave campus amid safety concerns. Columbia's Monday classes will be held virtually.
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Opening statements are expected to begin Monday in Donald Trump's New York hush money criminal trial. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
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We speak with Mahmood Mamdani, a professor of government at Columbia who has spoken with many of the pro-Palestine protesters camping out on school grounds to show solidarity with Gaza and demand the school divest from Israel. He says there is growing outrage from faculty after the school's leadership called in the police to raid the Gaza Solidarity Encampment and conduct mass arrests, while administrators have started suspending and evicting some students. "There has been no due process on the Columbia campus," says Mamdani.
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Jury selection for the remaining alternates continues Friday in former President Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
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