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The 7
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
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Thursday, May 2. The seven stories you need to know today.
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| 0:00.0 | Tensions are high at college anti-war protests. House Republicans will get another shot to oust their speaker, |
| 0:10.0 | and a curious cat got itself into a box and a bit of a pickle. |
| 0:15.0 | That's some of what we'll get to on the Seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Hannah Jewel. |
| 0:19.7 | It's Thursday, May 2nd. |
| 0:21.7 | Let's get you caught up with today's 7 stories. |
| 0:28.2 | Number 1, college protests against the Israel-Gazah War are continuing to spread. |
| 0:34.4 | Police arrested 90 protesters at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire early this morning. |
| 0:42.4 | There have also been more arrests in New York, Wisconsin, Texas, and elsewhere. |
| 0:47.0 | And at UCLA this morning, police are facing off with protesters. |
| 0:52.0 | It comes a day after counter-protesters Police are facing off with protesters. |
| 0:52.7 | It comes a day after counter-protesters violently attacked that school's encampment. |
| 0:57.9 | The counter-protesters tried to tear down makeshift barricades and aimed fireworks at where pro-Palestinian students were |
| 1:04.5 | camping leading to fights. |
| 1:07.8 | No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. In a |
| 1:15.0 | related story, House Republicans and a majority of Democrats passed a bill yesterday in response to the college protests. |
| 1:23.0 | It would expand the federal definition of anti-Semitism |
| 1:27.0 | to include certain criticisms of Israel. |
| 1:30.0 | Critics say it violates the First Amendment. |
| 1:35.0 | Number two, the Arizona Senate voted yesterday to repeal the state's |
| 1:42.0 | 1864 abortion ban. |
| 1:45.2 | The strict civil war era ban outlaws almost all abortions. |
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