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Driven by Hamas: Campus protests led by groups backing Hamas terrorists

Students walk by one of the spray-painted messages left by those protesting the Israel-Hamas war on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Sixteen people, including five students, were arrested earlier this week when they occupied the Student Union Building, causing damage inside. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

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Most of the organizations providing the backbone of anti-Israel campus protests are supporters of the terrorist organization Hamas and some receive funding, at least indirectly, from left-wing billionaires.

Pro-Palestinian encampments threaten college graduations

Demonstrators emerge from their tents after camping overnight with over fifty others on the steps of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., Tuesday, April 23, 2024 as students and others establish an encampment in protest, demanding for a divestment in UC Berkeley's holdings with companies doing business with Israel. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Pro-Palestinian protests have forced the University of Southern California to cancel its main commencement this month. Now campus demonstrations against Israel threaten to disrupt other graduations, especially those featuring Biden officials as keynote speakers.

Demonstrators emerge from their tents after camping overnight with over fifty others on the steps of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., Tuesday, April 23, 2024 as students and others establish an encampment in protest, demanding for a divestment in UC Berkeley's holdings with companies doing business with Israel. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Pro-Palestinian encampments threaten college graduations

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan, China, Feb. 3, 2021. The House voted unanimously Friday, March 10, 2023, to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19. The order to declassify focused on intelligence related to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, citing “potential links” between the research that was done there and the outbreak of COVID-19, which the WHO declared a pandemic in March 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

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Stickers and Palestininan flags cover a statue of George Washington at an encampment by students protesting against the Israel-Hamas war at George Washington University on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Oversight Republicans to question D.C. officials about response to GWU camps

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump listens at a primary election night party in Columbia, S.C., Feb. 24, 2024. The long and occasionally quixotic relationship between Trump and Graham has turned negative once more after the South Carolina senator criticized Trump's refusal to support a federal abortion ban. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Graham reveals potential phone hack involving someone impersonating Schumer

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

A worker moves a pallet in an inspection area for trucks carrying humanitarian aid supplies bound for the Gaza Strip, on the Palestinian side of the Erez crossing between southern Israel and Gaza, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Pentagon says U.S. pier for Gaza aid is more than half-completed, to be ready soon

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump listens at a primary election night party in Columbia, S.C., Feb. 24, 2024. The long and occasionally quixotic relationship between Trump and Graham has turned negative once more after the South Carolina senator criticized Trump's refusal to support a federal abortion ban. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Graham reveals potential phone hack involving someone impersonating Schumer

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

A worker moves a pallet in an inspection area for trucks carrying humanitarian aid supplies bound for the Gaza Strip, on the Palestinian side of the Erez crossing between southern Israel and Gaza, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Pentagon says U.S. pier for Gaza aid is more than half-completed, to be ready soon

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President Joe Biden speaks about reproductive freedom on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Fla. Biden is in Florida planning to assail the state's upcoming six-week abortion ban and similar restrictions nationwide. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Aerial view of the southwest Washington, D.C. Liberty Loan federal building pictured in the foreground circa 2006. (Photo courtesy of U.S. General Services Administration)

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In this April 14, 2018, file photo, Howard Stern speaks at the 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies in Cleveland. Stern has reached a five-year deal with SiriusXM to continue making his show for the satellite radio company through the end of 2025, in a deal announced Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. Terms were not disclosed. Forbes magazine has reported that Stern was already making $90 million a year. (Photo by Michael Zorn/Invision/AP, File)

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This photo provided by the George W. Bush Presidential Center shows former President George W. Bush working on a portrait of service members and veterans. The George W. Bush Institute is loaning the 60 color portraits by the former U.S. president to Walt Disney World. The paintings of service members and veterans will be on display for a year starting next month at Epcot's American Adventure pavilion. (Courtesy of the George W. Bush Presidential Center via AP)

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The Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently returned a 3,200-year-old ancient Egyptian sarcophagus to a museum in Sweden where it disappeared decades ago. (File Photo credit: Wangkun Jia via Shutterstock)

Boston museum returns sarcophagus of ancient Egyptian mummy to Swedish museum

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Authorities walk on a street near a property belonging to Sean "Diddy" Combs on Monday, March 25, 2024, in Los Angeles, after federal law enforcement executed a raid as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation by federal authorities in New York. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

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A worker moves a pallet in an inspection area for trucks carrying humanitarian aid supplies bound for the Gaza Strip, on the Palestinian side of the Erez crossing between southern Israel and Gaza, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Pentagon says U.S. pier for Gaza aid is more than half-completed, to be ready soon

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A screen shows a Chinese aircraft carrier at the opening of the Western Pacific Navy Symposium in Qingdao, eastern China's Shandong province on Monday, April 22, 2024. Zhang Youxia, one of China's top military leaders took a harsh line on regional territorial disputes, telling an international naval gathering in northeastern China on Monday that the country would strike back with force if its interests came under threat. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China launches third aircraft carrier

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan, China, Feb. 3, 2021. The House voted unanimously Friday, March 10, 2023, to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19. The order to declassify focused on intelligence related to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, citing “potential links” between the research that was done there and the outbreak of COVID-19, which the WHO declared a pandemic in March 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

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Former President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he arrives at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Friday, April 26, 2024. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) **FILE**

Trump suggests he may pull U.S. troops from South Korea without more cost-sharing

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Students walk by one of the spray-painted messages left by those protesting the Israel-Hamas war on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Sixteen people, including five students, were arrested earlier this week when they occupied the Student Union Building, causing damage inside. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Driven by Hamas: Campus protests led by groups backing Hamas terrorists

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This image shows the cover of "Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants" by George W. Bush, published in 2017. It includes paintings of immigrants he knew over the years, along with biographical essays he wrote about each of them. The original paintings will be on display in June at Disney's Epcot Center. (Image courtesy of Crown Publishing Group)

Portraits of Courage exhibit displays the work of a president-artist

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Phill Cady wears a T-shirt with a photo of former President Donald Trump, who is running for reelection, as he holds a sign during a "Take Our Border Back" rally on Feb. 3, 2024, in Quemado, Texas. Trump has moved anti-immigration sentiment to center stage in U.S. politics. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Immigration named top U.S. problem for third straight month in Gallup poll

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Most U.S. adults oppose the Supreme Court’s abortion precedent

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Jesi Lipp, a lay delegate from the Great Plains Conference, reacts after the General Conference voted to remove the United Methodist Church’s ban on the ordination of clergy who are “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” — a prohibition that dates to 1984 — during the 2024 United Methodist General Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (Photo credit: Larry McCormack, UM News, used with permission.)

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FILE - United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speak during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters, April 18, 2024. An independent review released Monday, April 22, of the neutrality of UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the agency had participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. Guterres ordered the U.N. internal watchdog to carry out a separate investigation into the allegations. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

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Mandisa accepts the award for pop/contemporary album of the year at the Dove Awards Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. Mandisa, a contemporary Christian singer who appeared on “American Idol” and won a Grammy for her 2013 album ‘Overcomer’, has died. She was 47. A representative for the singer told The Associated Press that the singer was found dead in her home in Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to supporters during a campaign event, Sunday, April 21, 2024, in Royal Oak, Mich. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

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A Drug Enforcement Administration agent shoulders a bundle of marijuana plants down a steep slope after working with other law enforcement officers to clear a patch of the plants from national forest land near Entiant, Wash., Sept. 20, 2005. Police confiscated 465 marijuana plants at the so-called "garden," a small find compared to the thousands of other plants confiscated on some other busts in the area. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

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In this photo taken from video released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, rescuers work in the burned concert hall after a terrorist attack on the building of the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia. Russia is still reeling from the attack Friday in which gunmen killed 139 people in the Crocus City Hall, a concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow. Health officials said about 90 people remain hospitalized, with 22 of them, including two children, in grave condition. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP) **FILE**

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