Tonight the tent standoff at Columbia University as pro-Palestinian protests escalate on

campuses nationwide.

Columbia now threatening to expel students who have taken over a historic campus building after they smash windows and

use furniture to barricade doors and the new arrests more than a thousand

nationwide since the unrest began. Also tonight Donald Trump held in contempt

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The student-led resistance movements and clearing encampments, but some four dozen of the tent camps remain across the country,

including at New York's Columbia University where pro-Palestinian demonstrators turned up the

heat overnight, breaking windows, storming, and oxygen. and to suspend protesters who have refused to leave.

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