Rep. Collins Revises Praise of UM Frat Members’ Actions at Pro-Palestine Protest
Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins partially backtracked on his praise for a video that included a man making monkey gestures at a Black student.
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Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins partially backtracked on his praise for a video that included a man making monkey gestures at a Black student.
Phi Delta Theta says it removed one of its members for “racist actions” at the University of Mississippi in response to a pro-Palestine protest.
The Hamas militant group says it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal to halt a seven-month war with Israel.
U.S. House Rep. Mike Collins, R-Georgia, praised a video that showed a University of Mississippi student making monkey gestures at a Black woman.
A styrofoam cup full of icewater flew out of the hands of a counter protestor and across the partly cloudy sky toward a group of pro-Palestine protesters at the University of Mississippi on Thursday, marking the beginning of a tense hour on the Quad. Some among a mostly white, mostly male group of counter protesters engaged in racist, sexist displays and hurled epithets.
Hope Hicks, who served as Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign press secretary and various roles in his White House, took the witness stand.
Efforts to curtail the rights of transgender Mississippians died, including bathroom restrictions and a bill to define sex as binary under state law.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift that could have wide ripple effects.
Conservative Supreme Court justices appear skeptical that states must allow abortions in the case of medical emergencies.
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