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Gaza solidarity protests sweep U.S. colleges; SCOTUS tackles Starbucks union case

Tensions are high as campus protests over the war in Gaza stretch across the U.S. The Supreme Court will hear a case about pro-union Starbucks employees.
Students occupy the campus Columbia University on Friday, calling for the school to divest from companies with ties to Israel.

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and tensions are high at many schools. Students at Columbia, Yale and New York University have been arrested in recent days. Columbia announced yesterday that all to attempt to "deescalate the rancor." Students at UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan set up Gaza solidarity

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