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Anti-ICE protesters tried to freeze business at a Southern California Home Depot Saturday by gobbling up cheap ice scrapers and then returning them en masse to denounce immigration raids at the hardware chain. The demonstration, known as a “buy-in,” clogged up registers at the store in Monrovia, when nearly a hundred activists snatched up the 17-cent ice scrapers, only to turn around and return them immediately. Some of the demonstrators waved signs with the orange and white Home Dept logo reading “ICE out of The Home Depot,” “No Secret Police,” and “No to ICE,” according to video posted on Reddit....

‘I had Jewish blood on my hands,’ a Tulane student said after aiding a classmate who was assaulted at a pro-Palestinian rally Recent days have witnessed what Jewish students and watchdog groups describe as a raft of antisemitic incidents on college campuses. Jewish students at Cooper Union in New York City sheltered in a library as pro-Palestinian demonstrators banged on the glass walls of the building. At a pro-Palestinian protest near Tulane University, at least two students were assaulted in a melee that began when someone tried to burn an Israeli flag. And anonymous posters flooded a Cornell message board...

“Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the (sometimes ironic) slogan of The Washington Post. But it’s also a fair description of what’s happening in Tennessee, as the state Legislature is being called to a special session even as local and federal officials withhold information that might be critical to its decision-making. Gov. Bill Lee ordered the special session to begin Aug. 21 in response to a March 27 mass shooting in which three adults and three children at the Covenant School, a Christian school in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood, were killed. The Nashville Tennessean article refers only to “a shooter.” The...