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Following a mass rally in downtown New Haven, around 250 pro-Palestine protesters set up 40 tents on Cross Campus, where they moved after police cleared a previous encampment on Beinecke Plaza and arrested 44 students.

More than 300 protesters are now gathered in a circle blocking the intersection of College and Grove. Follow live.

Aaron Bushnell, an active duty airman in the U.S. military, died on Monday outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. as part of a protest condemning Israel’s war against Hamas; pro-Palestinian student groups held a vigil on Cross Campus to commemorate Bushnell and the Palestinians killed in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war.

Students gathered each night last week to read excerpts from texts relating to colonialism, occupation, apartheid, genocide and censorship.

Yale University students walked out of class on Tuesday, insisting that the school publicly call for a ceasefire in Gaza, according to the Yale Daily News.

The Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center, a museum run by the Knights of Columbus, unveiled two crèche-themed exhibits for the Christmas season.

In a lecture sponsored by the Buckley Institute and Young America’s Foundation, retired neurosurgeon and former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson ’73 shared his thoughts on the declining state of American education and values.

Voters will be heading to the ballot box Aug. 9 for the partisan primary election to determine the candidates for the general election Nov. 8.