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Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of college campuses following last week’s arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University. The students are calling for universities to separate themselves from any companies that are advancing Israel’s military efforts in Gaza – and in some cases from Israel itself. Protests on many campuses have been orchestrated by coalitions of student groups. The groups largely act independently, though students say they’re inspired by peers at other universities. A look at protests on campuses in recent days: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA The University of Southern California has canceled its main stage graduation ceremony as the campus is roiled by protests stemming from the Israel-Hamas war. The university already canceled a commencement speech by the school’s pro-Palestinian valedictorian, citing safety concerns. The Los Angeles Police Department said more than 90 people were arrested Wednesday night during a protest at the university for alleged trespassing. One person was arrested for alleged assault with a deadly weapon. MORE | USC campus remains closed to public after mass arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators USC’s campus

NEW YORK — As Donald Trump was running for president in 2016, his old friend at the National Enquirer was scooping up potentially damaging stories about the candidate and paying out tens of thousands of dollars to keep them from the public eye. But when it came to the seamy claims by porn performer Stormy Daniels, David Pecker said he put his foot down. “I am not paying for this story,” he told jurors Thursday at Trump’s hush money trial, recounting his version of a conversation with Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen about the catch-and-kill scheme that prosecutors alleged amounted to interference in the race. Pecker was already $180,000 in the hole on other Trump-related stories by the time Daniels came along. “I didn’t want to be involved in this from the beginning.” RELATED: Key players in Donald Trump’s hush money trial Pecker’s testimony was a critical building block for the prosecution’s theory that their partnership was a way to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election. The Manhattan district attorney is seeking to elevate the gravity of the history-making first trial of a former American

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By Kate Ashford | NerdWallet The investing information provided on this page is for educational purposes only. NerdWallet, Inc. does not offer advisory or brokerage services, nor does it recommend or advise investors to buy or sell particular stocks, securities or other investments. American workers expect to retire at a median age of 65, according to a 2023 survey from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). But the actual median age for retirement is 62, the survey found. That may not seem like a big gap, but if you retire three years earlier than planned, that’s three fewer years of savings and three more years of retirement to fund. This could happen for all sorts of reasons: You (or your partner or your parents) could get sick or disabled, there could be changes at your company, or you could simply burn out on the job. Forty-six percent of retirees exit the workforce sooner than they had planned, according to the EBRI survey, and of those, 35% say they did so due to a hardship (like health issues or disability). Liz Windisch, a certified financial planner

Julie Rovner, David Hilzenrath | (TNS) KFF Health News New technologies are making it easier for companies to fix prices and discriminate against individual consumers, the Biden administration’s top consumer watchdog said Tuesday. Algorithms make it possible for companies to fix prices without explicitly coordinating with one another, posing a new test for regulators policing the market, said Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, during a media event hosted by KFF. “I think we could be entering a somewhat novel era of pricing,” Khan told reporters. Khan is regarded as one of the most aggressive antitrust regulators in recent U.S. history, and she has paid particular attention to the harm that technological advances can pose to consumers. Antitrust regulators at the FTC and the Justice Department set a record for merger challenges in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2022, according to Bloomberg News. Last year, the FTC successfully blocked biotech company Illumina’s over $7 billion acquisition of cancer-screening company Grail. The FTC, Justice Department, and Health and Human Services Department launched a website on April 18, healthycompetition.gov, to make it easier for people to report suspected

Hundreds of people have been arrested in California, New York, Massachusetts, Texas and other states during the tense protests on college campuses.

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WEATHER ALERT High Wind Warning WATCH LIVE Welcome, Manage MyDisney Account Log Out Thursday, April 25, 2024 5:26PM Horse-riding apes invaded San Francisco’s Crissy Field Wednesday to promote the upcoming film “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.” SAN FRANCISCO — Horse-riding apes invaded California’s Bay Area on Wednesday. Well, not really, they were actors doing a promo shoot for the upcoming film, “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.” The movie is set 300 years after the events of “War for the Planet of the Apes,” which was released in 2017. One man vacationing here from India, got an up-close look and couldn’t believe how realistic the apes looked. “They even have their eyelids moving, which was something I didn’t expect, because usually in a mask you wouldn’t expect eyelids to move, right? It was quite a nice experience,” said Sankalp Bangera. The film is being distributed by Disney 20th Century Fox which is the parent company of ABC7. It hits theaters on May 10. Disney is the parent company of 20th Century Studios and this station. Copyright © 2024 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.

LOS ANGELES — Lisa Vanderpump is a VERY busy woman. On top of opening numerous restaurants with more in the works, she is on three different TV shows. But she took some time to sit down with George Pennacchio to talk about it all, starting with her show, “Vanderpump Villa.” It follows the decadence and debauchery in the lives of the staff at Vanderpump’s Chateau Rosabelle in France. “It’s one of the kind of fantastic experiences about going to Europe, you just become overwhelmed with the beauty of the cities,” Vanderpump said. “Then you put a whole lot of naughtiness right in the middle of the French countryside and poof! There you have it.” “We were actually looking for people who had good personalities,who weren’t going to be shy in front of the camera, but we were looking for people who were really good at their jobs,” Vanderpump continued. “They all had to be qualified, which they were. Did they choose to always work? Not always.” Lisa recalled her own youth, explaining to George that, for the most part, she was nothing like her Chateau

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday appeared likely to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from prosecution over election interference, but it seemed possible Trump could still benefit from a lengthy trial delay, possibly beyond November’s election. Chief Justice John Roberts was among at least five members of the court who did not appear to embrace the claim of absolute immunity that would stop special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Trump on charges he conspired to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. But in arguments lasting more than 2 1/2 hours in the court’s first consideration of criminal charges against a former president, Roberts also was among several justices who suggested that the case might have to be sent back to lower courts before any trial could begin. Roberts indicated he was unhappy with the reasoning adopted by the federal appeals court that ruled against Trump. The timing of the Supreme Court’s decision could be as important as the outcome. Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, has been pushing to delay the trial until after the election