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ABC NewsHow campus protests of the past may inform pro-Palestinian student demonstrations
About 56 years ago, Columbia University's Hamilton Hall was overrun and occupied by student protesters calling for an end to what students called racist policies that displaced communities around the school's campus. It was one of several campus buildings occupied by protesters in dayslong demonstrations. Students setting up food pantries for protesters, hordes of students and faculty covering campus grounds or students flying flags out of Hamilton Hall windows in the 1960s are some of the familiar scenes echoed in today's protests.
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Some Planters nuts recalled for potential listeria contamination
Publix and Dollar Tree shoppers should check their pantries for two types of Planters brand nuts that were recently recalled across five states. In a company announcement dated May 3 and posted on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website, Planters' parent company, Hormel Foods Sales, LLC, announced a voluntary recall of two Planters peanut and mixed nuts products produced at one of its facilities in April "because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes." The recall is limited to two items, according to Hormel Foods: 4-ounce packages of Planters Honey Roasted Peanuts and 8.75-ounce cans of Planters Deluxe Lightly Salted Mixed Nuts.
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Interest rates may stay high for longer. Here’s what it means for the 2024 election.
At the start of 2024, the economy appeared to deliver just about everything President Joe Biden could want: falling inflation, robust growth and a forecast of interest rate cuts at the Federal Reserve that might send economic output even higher. Inflation has proven stubborn and output has slowed. Perhaps most notably, the Fed has cast doubt over whether rate cuts will arrive after all.
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It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's where educators can get freebies, discounts
Teacher Appreciation Week is being celebrated nationally this year from May 6-10. The theme for this year's week is "teachers are shining stars," according to the National Parent Teacher Association. Restaurants and retailers across the country are offering discounts, freebies and deals this week to honor the more than 3 million teachers throughout the United States.
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Trump trial live updates: Comptroller says Trump didn't direct him to set up hush money repayments
Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump last April pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment charging him with falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment his then-attorney Michael Cohen made to Daniels in order to boost his electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election. Many jurors this morning took copious notes and looked back and forth at witness Jeff McConney on the stand and the lawyers questioning him.
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Israel-Gaza live updates: Hamas says it has agreed to a cease-fire proposal
As the Israel-Hamas war approaches the seven-month mark, renewed negotiations are underway to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist organization, as Israeli forces continue to prepare for an apparent invasion of the southern Gaza town of Rafah. A senior Israeli official with knowledge of negotiations said they have received a response from Hamas on a cease-fire proposal. It will take some time before Israel officially responds, the official added.
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Miss USA 2023 Noelia Voigt announces she is resigning title citing mental health
2023 Miss USA pageant winner Noelia Voigt announced Monday that she had "made the very tough decision" to resign from the title, citing mental health. Voigt, who won the title of Miss Utah USA 2023 in April last year, made the announcement in an Instagram post. The official Miss USA account later confirmed the news in a separate post.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene to meet with Mike Johnson amid threat to oust him as House speaker
House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will meet privately on Monday, sources told ABC News, amid Greene's looming threat to try to oust him. The one-on-one meeting, slated for 3:30 p.m. ET, comes as Greene has said she will force a vote to remove Johnson from the leadership post this week. The timing of when Greene plans to trigger the motion to vacate, however, remains unclear.
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Biden speaks with Netanyahu as Israeli invasion of Rafah appears imminent
President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday and "reiterated his clear position on Rafah," according to the White House. The two men spoke as a major Israeli military operation in the southern Gaza city appears imminent, despite opposition from the United States and other nations due to concerns over the humanitarian crisis in the region. Israel Defense Forces on Monday urged 100,000 people in the southern Gaza city to evacuate and dropped flyers warning of danger.
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Jennifer Lopez talks bringing her kids on tour this summer, her new film 'Atlas'
Jennifer Lopez is well aware that her kids are growing up fast. The superstar stopped by "Good Morning America" on Monday to dish about her new film "Atlas" and the 2024 Met Gala, and also opened up about her new tour and her hopes of bringing her children along for the ride this summer. "I feel like this is the last time that I'll get to do something like this with them," she told "GMA" of twins Max and Emme.
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Abducted 10-month-old girl has been found, officials say
A 10-month-old girl who was abducted in Clovis, New Mexico, was found Monday, according to the FBI Albuquerque Division. A suspect is also in custody, officials said. An Amber Alert for the baby, Eleia Maria Torres, was issued on Friday.
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'Miracle': Pastor credits divine intervention after man pulls gun on him during sermon
A Pennsylvania church pastor said it's a "miracle" he's alive after an assailant drew a gun on him and pulled the trigger as he was giving a sermon Sunday about the "enemies of God." The Rev. Glenn Germany of the Jesus' Dwelling Place Church in the Pittsburgh suburb of North Braddock told "Good Morning America" that the suspect, who police said lived in a home near the church where officers found a man dead from a gunshot wound, was a stranger to his congregation. The incident was captured on a livestream video of Germany's sermon and showed a church deacon, Clarence McCallister, tackling the assailant from behind when the suspect's silver handgun jammed.
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Tom Brady's roast rebuttal on deflategate brought down the house
Celebrities filled the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on Sunday for the "Greatest Roast of All Time: The Roast of Tom Brady," a made-for-streaming live comedy event where the seven-time Super Bowl champion quarterback took on three hours of full-contact comedy, absorbing blows from former teammates and comics on everything from Deflategate to divorce. Eight of Brady's former New England Patriots teammates joined him onstage -- Drew Bledsoe, Randy Moss, Rob Gronkowski, Julian Edelman, Rodney Harrison, Willie McGinest, Matt Light and Nate Solder -- as well as his longtime head coach Bill Belichick who made a surprise entrance and reunion with Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who delivered rips at Brady's expense. Kevin Hart, who hosted the special event, taunted Brady about his Brazilian model ex-wife, whose reported new boyfriend is a jiujitsu instructor.
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Conviction could cost Trump key votes, polls show, but until then his trial doesn't seem to change minds
Donald Trump is standing trial in New York on felony charges connected with hush money paid to allegedly conceal claims of an affair from voters before the 2016 presidential election. It's a historic event -- at a time when Americans are also weighing who to vote for in the former president's upcoming rematch with Joe Biden. Trump denies all wrongdoing and has pleaded not guilty.
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Adam Driver stops time in teaser for Francis Ford Coppola's new film 'Megalopolis'
Legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola dropped a tease to his decades-in-the-making epic "Megalopolis" over the weekend. In the snippet from the movie's opening moments, a man named Caesar (Adam Driver) emerges from a window atop atop a skyscraper overlooking a big city. Dressed in a black suit and shirt, he shakily makes his way to the ledge, taking in the view before he takes a fateful step off.
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9-year-old speaks out after helping to save parents amid tornado
"I was really, really scared," Branson, 9, recounted to ABC News of being caught in the severe weather on April 27 with his parents Wayne and Lindy Baker in the town of Dickson. The Baker family had been racing to safety and driving to their friend's storm cellar. "We could pretty much see this tornado within about a mile and two miles away from us," Wayne Baker told ABC News.
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For the jury in Trump's hush money trial, evidence of a criminal conspiracy comes in bits and pieces
When jurors heard opening statements in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial two weeks ago, prosecutors presented a coherent timeline of events to argue that the former president had committed crimes to hide damaging information from voters before and after the 2016 election. Over the last two weeks, the evidence of Trump's alleged criminal conduct has arrived in bits and pieces. Jurors have so far heard from nine witnesses and seen over 120 exhibits.
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Ex-Fulton County prosecutor Nathan Wade says 'day of reckoning' coming in Trump case
Nathan Wade, the former Fulton County, Georgia, special prosecutor who was forced to resign from the election interference case against Donald Trump after a judge's order over his relationship with District Attorney Fani Willis, told ABC News in an interview that he believes there will be a "day of reckoning" in the case despite it being sidelined for months over scandal. "I have to believe in the case," Wade said in an exclusive sit-down interview with ABC's Linsey Davis. "And I believe that, you know, there's going to be that day of reckoning where a Fulton County jury there in Fulton County, Georgia, would have to make that decision."
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5-year-old boy killed in Texas flood, 224 people rescued: 'We're not out of the woods yet'
More than 20 million people remain under a flood watch in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas on Sunday. A 5-year-old boy was found dead in Johnson County, Texas, on Sunday amid severe flooding, according to officials. Emergency management officials said they got a call for a vehicle stuck in swift-moving water at 1:53 a.m. local time on Sunday morning.
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Ex-Fulton County prosecutor Nathan Wade speaks out: 'Workplace romances are as American as apple pie ... it happened to the two of us'
Nathan Wade, the former Fulton County special prosecutor involved in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump, spoke out for the first time Sunday since resigning from the case after a public disqualification battle over his relationship with District Attorney Fani Willis. Wade, who resigned from the case last month following a judge's ruling, conceded he had certain regrets about the relationship but defended the integrity of the case against Trump and others moving forward. "Workplace romances are as American as apple pie," Wade told ABC News' Linsey Davis in an exclusive sit-down interview.