More student protesters were arrested overnight.

A strict abortion ban takes effect in Florida today.

And we'll tell you what happened when a middle school banned phones.

That's some of what we'll get to on the seven from the

Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewel. It's Wednesday, May 1st. Let's get you caught up

with today's seven stories. Let them go.

Number 1. New York police made multiple arrests at Columbia University.

Dozens of officers in Riot Gear multiple arrests at Columbia University.

Dozens of officers in Riot Gear entered the New York City campus last night.

They'd been called in by the University's administration.

And they breached Hamilton Hall, the building that student protesters had taken over yesterday morning.

Columbia's president said she had asked police to maintain a presence on campus through at least May 17th.

Police also moved to clear protesters from City College of New York just hours after the arrests at Columbia.

Over 1,300 people have been arrested at student-led protests across the country in the last few weeks.

They're demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and for their universities to cut financial ties with

Israel.

At Brown University in Rhode Island, the administration said

yesterday it would hold a vote later this year on divesting from Israel. That

ended its student encampment without arrests.

Number two, Donald Trump was held in contempt of court for violating a gag order.

This happened yesterday in Trump's New York criminal trial. That's the one where he's accused of falsifying business records to cover up an alleged

hush money payment made in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election.

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