President Biden signed an aid package that will send military funding to Israel and humanitarian relief to Gaza, while campus protests escalated across the U.S.
Clashes between pro-Palestinian student protesters and police intensified at colleges across the nation Wednesday, as university officials aggressively cracked down on campus demonstrations against the Israel-Gaza war, leading to several arrests and tense standoffs with authorities. New skirmishes broke out at the University of Texas at Austin, where state troopers clad in riot gear took at least 34 protesters into custody at the direction of Gov.
Greg Abbott , according to state law enforcement officials, after hundreds of students walked out of class to demand the school divest from companies that do business with Israel. At the University of Southern California, officers struggled with protesters as they sought to break up an on-campus tent encampment. Videos posted to social media showed scenes of increasing tension as campus police pushed their way through a growing crowd.
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