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Hundreds Arrested as Campus Pro-Palestinian Protests Spread

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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A.M. Edition for April 26. Student demonstrations calling on universities to divest from companies doing business with Israel crop up nationwide, creating problems for administrators as they balance security and speech rights. Plus, Donald Trump’s allies draw up plans to blunt the independence of the Federal Reserve, a move WSJ editor Alex Frangos says would represent a ‘significant shift’ in how monetary policy is set. And America’s tech giants disclose record-high capital expenditures as the AI race keeps heating up. Luke Vargas hosts. Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.3

Pro-Palestinian protests spread to more U.S. campuses as administrators struggle to respond.

0:29.0

Plus, Donald Trump's allies draw a plan to blunt the independence of the Federal Reserve.

0:35.2

What these Trump advisors are talking about is going back to something we had back in the 1970s

0:41.0

where the president had much more influence over the Fed and could push interest

0:45.1

rates around in ways that they thought were expedient for their political

0:49.6

objectives. And America's tech giants disclose record high capital expenditures as the AI race keeps

0:57.2

heating up.

0:58.2

It's Friday, April 26th.

1:00.4

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News?

1:05.3

The top headlines and business stories moving your world today. We begin with the situation on American campuses as universities crack down on intensifying

1:20.9

pro-Palestinian protests.

1:23.0

Hundreds of people have now been arrested in student demonstrations

1:27.0

since a first campus encampment formed last week at Columbia University

1:32.0

and similar sites have now popped up nationwide.

1:34.7

We will not stop, we will not rest disclose.

1:39.2

Davis.

1:40.2

Free Palestine. That was sound from protest at the University of Minnesota and George Washington University yesterday, as well as a counter-protest at

1:54.4

UCLA. Many student protesters have united around demands that their

1:59.4

universities divest from companies that are doing business with Israel, though thus far most schools

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