Students are getting arrested for protesting the Israel-Gaza War.

This summer could break heat records.

And archaeologists found some very old cherries at Mount Vernon.

That's some of what we'll get to on the Seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewel. It's Tuesday, April 23rd.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

Number one, dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested at Yale and NYU yesterday.

NYPD officers made arrests after school administrators requested their assistance yesterday.

NYU faculty were among those arrested, according to a faculty group.

Hundreds of protesters then gathered outside the NYPD headquarters. Earlier in the day, Yale said 47 of its students were also arrested.

The Ivy League School in Connecticut said they would be referred for disciplinary action.

That could include suspension. Demonstrations have also

spread to other campuses across the country, including MIT and UC Berkeley. They were

fueled by the arrests of over a hundred people at Columbia University

last week. Columbia continues to face criticism over its response to those protests.

School leaders were questioned on Capitol Hill last week by lawmakers who claimed the protests were

antisemetic.

Others say the crackdowns are denying students right to free speech.

Number two, Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York heard opening statements yesterday.

The government's opening statement focused on tying Trump's alleged doctoring of financial records to the 2016 presidential election.

Lawyers argued that Trump paid the adult film actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the election to keep news of their alleged

affair away from voters.

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