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Destiny Brown, senior at Ohio State University, breathed a sigh of relief in her dorm room when the guilty verdict came down for Derek Chauvin. But minutes later, she learned that a 16-year-old Black girl, Ma’Khia Bryant, had been killed that afternoon by Columbus police. “I can’t even begin to process the fact we live in a world where people’s lives — guilty or not, innocent or not — their lives just do not matter,” Brown said. Overcome with a feeling of helplessness, Brown fired off a group message to her friends. Following the demonstration, the crowd marched to the...

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for Monday's attack at Ohio State University that injured nine. The terror group's Amaq News Agency on Tuesday claimed the attack, carried out by an 18-year-old Ohio State student, was perpetrated by a "soldier of the Islamic State." Authorities have not commented on what motivated the attack but could not rule out the possibility of terrorism. Abdul Razak Ali Artan hit a crowd of pedestrians with a car before stabbing several people with a butcher knife Monday morning on Ohio State's campus. Artan was killed by an officer at...

ANSWER's Steering CommitteeBy Ryan Anderson O’DonnellFrontPageMagazine.com | March 12, 2003 The group at the forefront of the recent anti-war rallies, International A.N.S.W.E.R (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) is in reality a front organization designed to further the radical agenda of several extremist movements from the political Left. Despite the media’s assertions to the contrary, present incarnation of the peace movement, led by ANSWER, is anything but representative of mainstream America. ANSWER’s steering committee reads like a "Who’s Who" of radical political organizations. The most influential member of ANSWER’s steering committee, Ramsey Clark’s pet project known as the...

As President Bush boarded Air Force One for his trip to Columbus yesterday morning, lines of people -- some a half- mile long -- radiated from Ohio Stadium where the president was to speak at Ohio State University's spring commencement. An estimated 60,000 of the graduates' family and friends -- double the usual number for such an event in the stadium -- queued up to hear Bush make one of the two commencement speeches he would give this year. The admission gates were clogged because of heightened security. At 7:30 a.m., Jeremy Liggett's cellphone rang as he waited to...