Palestine protests at the University of Texas at Austin, a professor writes what history teaches us about protests, free speech & violence.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WAVE) - The 2024 legislative session in Kentucky saw a handful of controversial bills and budget line items, but it also created some universally applauded results. Just in Louisville ...

DES MOINES — Iowa’s majority Republican lawmakers are angling for a quick wrap-up to this year’s legislative session, as they look toward funding the state government and cutting taxes ...

DALLAS - Mayor Eric Johnson says the Texas legislature should pass a law forbidding golden parachutes for city employees statewide. Dallas' mayor is also calling for city council members to agree ...

A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday could have major implications for protest organizers in Texas. The high court declined to hear a case out of Louisiana involving a police officer who ...

The first day of Read's second-degree murder trial on Tuesday, when jury selection begins, drew the same ... the 200-foot buffer zone established for protesters by the judge, Karen Read supporters ...

FRANKFORT— The final day of the Kentucky legislative session was marked by what didn't happen rather than what did. On the Republican side, several bills reflecting key party priorities failed ...

The task force plans to spend the next year developing public policy options to advocate for during the upcoming 2025 legislative session. "We brag a lot about Texas being pro-business ...

The state Legislature’s next regular session begins in January 2025. “Economic development is key to Texas' future. It is not yet clear that permanent cement production plants located in close ...

A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday could have major implications for protest organizers in Texas. The high court declined to hear a case out of Louisiana involving a police officer who ...

Lubbock Habitat for Humanity was selected by Texas Habitat for Humanity as this year’s only Capitol Build affiliate, a huge honor for the entire Lubbock community, according to Lubbock Habitat ...

Garza, whose office prosecutes misdemeanors, said she has asked UT Austin to reexamine its policy of arresting protesters for criminal trespassing ... Wednesday they had consented to searches Monday ...

Hundreds of janitors who keep the city’s office buildings clean rallied in the Loop on Wednesday ahead of a possible ... Local 1 and their supporters rally in downtown, demanding better wages ...

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Protesters showed up Thursday night ... Hundreds had gathered for a rally in support of Reed outside headquarters earlier in the evening. Grace Patino, with ...

The Durham Association of Educators have planned a rally Thursday night ahead of the school board's meeting about the budget. The Durham Association of Educators have planned a rally Thursday ...

The Durham Association of Educators have planned a rally Thursday night ahead of the school board's meeting about the budget. The Durham Association of Educators have planned a rally Thursday ...

TULSA, Okla. - The Downtown Tulsa Partnership released the 2024 State of Downtown Tulsa report on Thursday. The report is an in-depth and data-rich snapshot of ongoing development and economic ...

When it comes to leasing activity, the downtown office ... Related: Austin's most expensive streets for office rentals are... Hotels strike partnership ahead of convention center rebuild Related ...

then those changes could come. She said for now, the focus is just on Phase 2. The Austin City Council will vote on Phase 2 possibly as early as May. Boomtown is KVUE's series covering the ...

Local members of the National Association of Letter Carriers, the union that represents United States Postal Service mail delivery personnel, rallied in downtown ... He said the rally has a ...

Cersei and Yahtzee are two birds of prey taking on the tall task of poop duty ahead of the draft. The two birds essentially serve as scarecrows, perched on the arms of their owners, Paul Thomas ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Police Department said a second person has died following a vehicle-pedestrian crash in downtown Austin during the week of South by Southwest. The department ...

Photos posted on social media showed the massive mob invading the span during the disruptive rally — only the latest ... blocking the bridge to keep the protesters away from City Hall.

THE CRASH HAPPENED NEAR SHERMAN AND CAPITOL JUST AFTER 830 THIS MORNING. THE CAR ENDED UP ON ITS SIDE. YOU’RE LOOKING AT THAT VIDEO OF IT THERE. MILWAUKEE POLICE SAY THE DRIVER WAS 22 YEARS OLD ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Fifth-year defensive lineman ... “My mom graduated from here and always tells me to finish what you start. It’s Texas man, the best school in the nation.” ...

The University of Texas announced Thursday that Erik Posegay will become the new associate head coach of the men’s swim team. Posegay heads to Austin to reunite with Bob Bowman, who was named ...

After clearing the eaglet for release and being informed that its parents were still in the area, Austin Wildlife Rescue partnered with Texas Parks and Wildlife to renest it. AUSTIN (KXAN ...

Members of the antiwar group Code Pink told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday to "stop ... end U.S. warfare and imperialism." Among its causes, the group opposes U.S. sanctions on ...

Spirits were extremely high in Austin as the Texas Longhorns (22-16) entered a midweek contest against the UTRGV Vaqueros (18-15). Fresh off a thrilling conference series win over the Houston ...

NASCAR has suspended crew members from three Cup teams and one Xfinity team for violations related to crew protective clothing and equipment from this past weekend’s race at Texas Motor Speedway ...

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke on Tuesday morning with China’s Minister of National Defense Adm. Dong Jun, marking both Austin’s first call with Dong and his first at-length ...

Symbolically happening on April 15 or Tax Day, and meant to cause economic disruption to those protesters believe are helping fund the Israel-Hamas war. "A lot of these companies are just thinking ...

Previously, she was a community news and breaking news reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. She enjoys binge-watching anime and films makeup tutorials in her spare time.

Chase Elliott broke a winless streak dating back to 2022 with a win in overtime in the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. Elliott had to endure ...

The planned manufacturing and research cluster is expected to create at least 17,000 construction jobs and more than 4,500 manufacturing jobs. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily ...

Follow NBC News' live coverage for updates as police face off with pro-Palestinian students at UCLA after Columbia University protesters are arraigned.

At Columbia, dozens of protesters entered the university’s Hamilton Hall ... according to another NYPD official. Eight days after a pro-Palestinian encampment was set up in the center of the ...

"Multiple arrests" were made at Virginia Commonwealth University Monday night, following tense conflict between police and pro-Palestinian protesters on the Richmond campus, officials said.

In September 1970, barely five months after ... this week. Even U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert made an allusion to that earlier time. “This is not the summer of love!” the Colorado Republican shouted ...

Follow NBC News' live coverage for updates as counterprotesters clash with pro-Palestinian students at UCLA after NYPD clears occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.

Announcements broadcasted on the University of California, Los Angeles campus Wednesday evening told demonstrators to disperse or they would be arrested and face a misdemeanor charge. The ...

Chastain finished 32nd and declined to comment on the incident with Byron after he was cleared and released from Texas’ infield care center. The incident with Chastain spoiled what otherwise ...

KENT, Ohio (WJW) – Hundreds of Kent State University students and others protested outside the student center as a controversial speaker visited campus Tuesday evening. Kyle Rittenhouse spoke to Kent ...

Iran-Israel Conflict LIVE ... Israel, after recent tense relations over Israel's war in Gaza. "I told him that Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — For just the third time in three ... He hung outside the top 15 after the first 100 laps, but one caution after another in Stage 2 put track position in the hands of the ...

Kyle Larson sat on the pole for the third straight weekend and led 77 laps in Sunday's race at Texas, but you wouldn't know it from looking at the results sheet. The 2021 Cup Series champion had a ...

Twelve New Yorkers have been selected to serve as jurors in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan, filling out the panel on the third day of proceedings. The 12 jurors ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- In this edition of Eyewitness News Extra Time, we have the latest on arrests made at Columbia University on Thursday, and day 3 of Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury of 12 people was seated Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s history-making hush money trial, propelling the proceedings closer to opening statements and the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump ... offices,” a time that was “very fruitful for Polish-U.S. relations.” Duda is the latest foreign leader to meet with Trump in the weeks ...

Multiple aides working for President Joe Biden allegedly have a nasty name for their boss' opponent, former President Donald ... got underway at his hush money trial in New York. 'Trump appears ...

Nobody questioned ... and who served time in prison)." These legal scholars' opinions may dash the hopes of some in the country who hope to see Donald Trump in prison, turning those desires ...

NEW YORK — The judge overseeing former president Donald Trump’s criminal trial said opening statements could begin as soon as Monday, as the jury selection process sped up and Trump got an ...

Former US president Donald Trump has a “high chance” of being convicted, says The Australian’s Washington Correspondent Adam Creighton. “I don’t think the judge would give him jail time ...

Former US president Donald Trump has a “high chance” of being convicted, says The Australian’s Washington Correspondent Adam Creighton. “I don’t think the judge would give him jail time ...

There was a giant flag waving in the breeze emblazoned with the words “TRUMP 2024: SAVE AMERICA" and one with Donald ... protesters, wearing black shirts with phrases like "Trump lies all the ...

Former President Trump on Wednesday used his off day from attending court in New York City to lambast the criminal cases against him as “bullshit” during one of his first battleground events since ...

Donald Trump described the hush money case against him as a "mess" after the jury who will decide his fate has been selected. Leaving the court in New York after proceedings were adjourned for the ...

This was not Donald Trump the business mogul or Donald Trump the 45th president – it was Donald Trump the defendant With Donald Trump just a few feet away, a potential juror in the criminal case ...

Jimmy Kimmel may host the Oscars a fifth time just to spite former President Donald Trump. Kimmel and Stephen Colbert both tore into Trump on their respective late-night shows Wednesday after the ...

The first seven jurors for Donald Trump's hush money trial were seated Tuesday after lawyers grilled the jury pool about their social media posts, political views and personal lives to decide who ...

Donald Trump, who relentlessly undermined the justice system while in office and since, is enjoying the same protections and guarantees of fairness and due process before the law that he sought to ...

It wouldn’t be a new episode of The Daily Show if Jon Stewart didn’t mock the latest public appearance from Donald Trump. During Monday’s episode, the late-night host skewered two Trump ...

Most voters think former President Donald Trump committed serious federal crimes, according to a new poll. As many as 53 per cent of survey respondents said in the New York Times/Siena College ...

He joined the publication in 2021 on the crime beat. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty In the first hours of Donald Trump's criminal trial on Monday, April 15, former first ...

Donald Trump tied the knot twice before marrying his third wife Melania Trump Alex Gurley is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously ...

Donald Trump tied the knot twice before marrying his third wife Melania Trump Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection/Getty ; Sonia Moskowitz/Getty ; Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency/Getty Ivana Trump ...

"Study in contrasts" is an entirely inadequate phrase to describe the different experiences of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump over the weekend. Regardless of one's opinion about the conflict ...

The Markson, a 330-unit mixed-income housing development, celebrated its grand opening in Austin, Texas. Developed by The NRP Group in partnership with the Housing Authority of the City of Austin ...

Students at the University of Texas at Austin protested Thursday after the school laid off more than 60 staff members to comply with Texas’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ban that went ...

LOUISIANA, USA — Protest organizers in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi can now be sued if an attendee breaks the law. Earlier this week, the Supreme Court declined to take up a case between an ...

ROUND ROCK — Austin Community College and Texas State University on Thursday announced a “seamless” direct transfer program to ease barriers for students looking to pursue a bachelor’s degree. The ...

This edition of the show has a special guest. Austin McNamara, punter for the last five seasons at Texas Tech, joined me on the show. McNamara, the Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Year ...

Recently in Austin, Texas, dogs were found deceased in a lake. Here's what is known at the time of writing. According to FOX 7 Austin, the 11 dogs were found in South Boggy Creek. Police, after dogs ...

“I don’t see anything changing on its incentives,” said Nathan Jensen, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin who specializes in government incentives. “It really is about ...

AUSTIN, Texas - Austin's homeless strategy office says the Marshalling Yard shelter now has a positive outcome rate of 20 percent, up from 10 percent in January. That means more people leaving the ...

A new resolution approved by an LGBTQ commission in Austin, Texas could potentially protect city residents offering gender transition medical treatment to minors. The LGBTQ Quality of Life ...

SAN DIEGO (CN) — The final defendant in a criminal trial against two left-wing protesters accused of being part of an antifa conspiracy to riot and attack right-wing protesters in San Diego took the ...

A heavy hail storm had hit Austin, Texas, and lasted for about 10 minutes. It hailed in different sizes, some marble-sized and some golf ball-sized. The cars which were under the canopy were saved ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A second man has died following a hit-and-run crash during South by Southwest in Downtown Austin. KVUE has confirmed Dunham was the son of a longtime Texas Monthly magazine ...