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WABC(NEW YORK) -- Columbia University is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education following allegations of discriminatory treatment of Palestinian students and their supporters.Palestine Legal, an advocacy group centered on Palestinian Rights, filed a civil rights complaint on behalf of four students and the student group Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine with the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).Columbia University declined to comment on the pending investigation. Co...

Edith Polverini/Getty Images (TEXAS) -- A flood watch remains in effect for more than 11 million people in Texas and Oklahoma on Saturday morning as a number of flood warnings are in effect as residents are urged not to drive on flooded roads.Several rivers in the Houston area are at major flood stage, with the Trinity River, located northeast of Houston, likely swelling to its highest level on record today.Not only is it forecast to go higher than it was during Hurricane Harvey in 2017, but it ...

Al Seib/ Los Angeles Times(SANTA CRUZ, Ca.) -- The captain of a scuba dive boat that caught fire off the California coast in 2019, killing 34 people, was sentenced to four years in federal prison on Thursday, according to ABC Los Angeles station KABC.The sentence also included three years of supervised release, KABC reported.A federal jury found Jerry Boylan, 70, of Santa Barbara, guilty of seamans manslaughter in November 2023 in connection with the deadly boat fire.Boylan was the captain of th...

Brigantine City Council is looking for back up from other municipalities to oppose offshore wind. The Press of Atlantic City reports members called on the Atlantic County Board of Commissioners to use its powers, including legal actions, to try to stop wind turbine projects from being built just a few miles off the state’s coast. ... Read more

Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images(PHOENIX, Az.) -- Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs on Thursday signed repeal legislation of a long dormant, near-total abortion ban that was recently revived by the state Supreme Court, stirring widespread controversy and debate.Hobbs signature will reverse the pending reactivation of the restrictive abortion law that dates to 1864 -- but it wont do so immediately.Instead, the ban, which was ruled last month to be enforceable by the Ariz...

CBSAs part of its announcement of its 2024-25 season, CBS announced it has tapped Drew Barrymore to be the center square in an all-new version of the classic TV game show Hollywood Squares. Squares has been slated for a midseason bow. Like previous iterations of the show, contestants play tic-tac-toe with star-filled cubes for cash and prizes. "The celebrities are asked questions and the contestants judge the legitimacy of their answers to win the game," CBS explains for the unini...

A MASSIVE TANKER FIRE TOOK PLACE AT A BRIDGE ON INTERSTATE 95 NEAR NORWALK. GOVERNOR NED LAMONT SAYS THE BRIDGE WILL HAVE TO BE TORN DOWN DUE TO DAMAGE FROM THE FLAMES, WITH DEMOLITION SET TO TAKE PLACE BEGINNING THIS MORNING. GOVERNOR LAMONT SAYS HE’S HOPEFUL THE BRIDGE WILL BE REOPENED SOON… http://danbury-news.EDHISTED.COM/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-05-03-WLAD-LAMONT_1-BRIDGE.mp3 ************************************************************************************************...

Pop_jop/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Russian military personnel are operating out of an air base in Niger that is still hosting a small number of American troops, two U.S. officials tell ABC News.One of the officials said the Russian trainers arrived several weeks ago at Nigers "Airport 101" near the capital of Niamey, and do not present an immediate security concern to U.S. troops.The Russian forces are operating out of a hangar at a location far away from U.S. forces and not on any pr...

A person golfs on the first day of tourism resuming in west Maui, two months after a devastating wildfire, on Oct. 08, 2023 near Lahaina, Hawaii. Mario Tama/Getty Images, FILE(HONOLULU) -- Hawaii Gov. Josh Green signed a bill into law to give counties more authority to regulate short-term vacation rentals amid the ongoing state housing crisis and aftermath of the Maui wildfires.Now, a day after the bill signing, local advocates from Lāhainā Strong are joining County Maui Mayor Richard Bissen t...

Views divided on Israel-Hamas War. -- ABC News/Ipsos(WASHINGTON) -- Nearly four in 10 Americans in a new ABC News Ipsos poll say the United States is doing too much to support Israel in its war with Hamas, up from about three in 10 in January. And more trust former President Donald Trump than President Joe Biden to handle the issue, though few call it critical in their choice of a candidate.With protests raging across U.S. college campuses, views on U.S. policy are fragmented. About a third of A...