New York Headlines

• Colleges Cracking Down on Pro-Palestinian Protests Raise Questions About Outsiders

  (by Patricia Mazzei for The New York Times 15 minutes ago)
  With pro-Palestinian protests spreading across campuses nationwide, university leaders have had to confront a central question: When does a demonstration cross the line?
  
  

• NYC firefighter, 36, dies of heart attack after being fired to pay for migrants — leaving his family with nothing

  (by Craig McCarthy, Alex Oliveira for The New York Post 29 minutes ago)
  Derek Floyd, 36, suffered cardiac arrest and passed away April 15, four months after the city gave him the boot as part of a larger effort to pare down staff and pay for housing and services for the tens of thousands of migrants flooding the Big Apple.
  
  

• Beloved pooch hit by stray bullet in NYC home dies of injuries: ‘She was a beautiful dog’

  (by Jack Morphet, Chris Nesi for The New York Post an hour ago)
  Although the pooch appeared to be on her way to a miraculous recovery, even walking around on her own three days after multiple surgeries, her injuries proved too severe, and her heart gave out at 1:30 a.m. Friday, four days after she was shot.
  
  
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• Columbia students celebrate as school officials promise no lockdown or evictions over anti-Israeli protests

  (by Ronny Reyes, Marie Pohl for The New York Post an hour ago)
  Anti-Israel protesters are singing and celebrating as Columbia University squashed rumors of looming campus lockdowns and mass evictions over the ongoing "tent city" demonstration.
  
  

• College Protests Over Gaza Deepen Democratic Rifts

  (by Katie Glueck for The New York Times 2 hours ago)
  Scenes of chaos unfolding on campuses across the country are stoking internal divisions and carry political risk as a major election year unfolds.
  
  

• Where College Protests Against Israel’s War in Gaza Are Happening

  (by Anna Betts for The New York Times 5 hours ago)
  A crackdown on demonstrators at Columbia University in New York spawned a wave of activism at universities across the country, with more than 800 arrests.
  

• The New York Comedy Scene Mourns Kenny DeForest

  (by Christopher Maag for The New York Times 9 hours ago)
  Kenny DeForest was beloved among his fellow stand-ups. After his sudden death, they came together to grieve — and to confront comedy’s eternal question: Too soon?
  

• Homelessness Is Especially Hard on Children. Making Music Helps.

  (by Andy Newman and Todd Heisler for The New York Times 9 hours ago)
  Therapists from the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music have found that teaching homeless children to make beats and write songs is a way to heal trauma.
  
  

• Columbia Bars Student Protester Who Said ‘Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live’

  (by Katherine Rosman for The New York Times 1 day, 22 hours ago)
  After video surfaced on social media, the student, Khymani James, said on Friday that his comments were wrong.