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[3] I'm Daily Wire editor -in -chief John Bickley, along with my guest co -host today, Sage Steel, host of the Sage Steel Show.
[4] It's Monday, April 22nd, and this is your morning wire afternoon update.
[5] Police began arresting anti -Israel protesters at Yale University today.
[6] According to the school's police chief, they were given several warnings.
[7] We'll be given a few minutes to clear this area.
[8] What's of egress are high street or Wall Street.
[9] No one will stop you from leaving.
[10] If you do not leave, you will be arrested.
[11] Despite the warnings, many of the demonstrators refused to leave.
[12] Some locked arms to a flagpole and saying, we shall not be moved as officers began arrests.
[13] Others who were part of a large encampment on campus refused to leave their tents.
[14] According to campus police, those arrested face trespassing charges.
[15] This comes after a week full of anti -Israel protests on and around the university.
[16] A Jewish student journalist who was covering one of the protests Saturday says she was jabbed in the eye by a protester wielding a Palestinian flag and that she was surrounded by a mob while covering the event.
[17] Here she is talking to Fox News.
[18] Not only did they blockade me and run after me, some of them also laughed at me as I was just kind of frantically saying, like, hey, this kid stabbed me, and none of them made an effort to go tracking down.
[19] They wanted him to get lost into the crowd and get away with him.
[20] Amid calls for Columbia University to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence on campus.
[21] The school president said all classes would be held virtually today.
[22] Daily Wire Senior Editor Cabot Phillips has more.
[23] The university has been the backdrop of an anti -Israel encampment in protests over the past week.
[24] Columbia President Namad Sheik said in a statement that she was, quote, saddened by the events on campus and denounced anti -Semitic language as well as the intimidating and harassing behavior towards Jews.
[25] Jews.
[26] Shafiq's announcement follows nationwide calls for action.
[27] Shabbat at Columbia says students have had to deal with harassment, including some being told to, quote, go back to Poland.
[28] White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates says protesters in and around the university cross the line if they say violence should befall Jewish students.
[29] Bates said, quote, echoing the rhetoric of terrorist organizations, especially in the wake of the worst massacre committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, is despicable.
[30] Opening arguments in former President Donald Trump's history.
[31] historic hush money trial began today in New York City.
[32] Daily Wire Investigation's editor, Brent Schur, has the latest.
[33] Prosecutors used opening statements to convince the 12 jurors and six alternates that Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney, is a credible witness, even though he's been convicted of perjury and taxi vision.
[34] They say Cohen's testimony will be damning and that several other witnesses will back up Cohen's claims, including one who took the stand today, National Inquirer publisher, David Pecker.
[35] The defense claimed that none of this was a crime while calling the 34 counts against Trump just 34 pieces of paper.
[36] In a separate courtroom down the street in Manhattan, lawyers for the former president agreed to more restrictions on the $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case.
[37] This all stems from concerns that Attorney General Letitia James had about Trump still having access to the Charles Schwab account used as collateral.
[38] Trump addressed the restrictions outside the court.
[39] She just tried to embarrass everybody, and she tried to embarrass a very good bonding company by saying they weren't credit -worthy.
[40] Well, they were credit -worthy, and what was more important is they had a security, $175 million that I put up.
[41] The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in what is being touted as the most important case on homelessness in 40 years.
[42] The case, Johnson v. Grant's Pass, stems from an ordinance passed in a small, Oregon town, which finds people $295 for sleeping in public places, such as sidewalks and parks.
[43] They're also prohibited from using blankets, pillows, or cardboard boxes.
[44] Critics say you cannot criminalize homelessness, but supporters say towns and cities need to have options for dealing with homeless camping in public.
[45] The Supreme Court said today that it will rule on so -called ghost guns during its next term.
[46] A ghost gun is a firearm that comes packaged in parts, which can be bought online and assembled.
[47] This comes as the Biden administration seeks to regulate the self -assemble kits as any other firearm.
[48] An appeals court struck down a 2022 regulation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, firearms, and explosives, which required background checks for those purchasing these kits, as well as the serialization of the parts for law enforcement tracking.
[49] U .S. troops will begin their withdrawal from a base in Niger.
[50] Morning Wire researcher Michael Whitaker has details on the pullout by the troops.
[51] The U .S. plans to withdraw more than 1 ,000 troops in Niger after a status of forces agreement between the two governments broke down earlier this month.
[52] American forces have conducted counterterrorism operations in Niger since 2013, but relations between the two countries have deteriorated since a military coup overfrew Niger's democratically elected government in 2023.
[53] America's air base in Niger has been a pillar of American efforts against jihadi terror groups in the region, such as al -Qaeda, Boko Haram, and various African branches of the Islamic State.
[54] And its loss is likely to hobble American military efforts in West Africa for the foreseeable future.
[55] A recent series of military coups in the region have also overthrown governments in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Saddam, and their new military governments have forged increasingly close skies of Russia and pivoted away from America and its allies.
[56] And quick thinking by a diver in South Carolina saved his life, but nearly cost him his arm.
[57] Will Georgeitis was attacked by an alligator while he was diving for fossilized shark teeth in the Cooper River.
[58] He told his harrowing story to ABC News.
[59] I knew the whole time I'm about to die no matter what I do.
[60] Strangely, through all that fear, like it was very clear what I knew I had to do.
[61] When he was about a foot away, he turned his head and opened his mouth to chomp down, basically on my head and shoulders.
[62] And I defensively put my arm up.
[63] I put my feet up against him, just launched back as hard as I possibly could, and somehow ripped my arm out and not off.
[64] Though it was severely broken and will require several surgeries, amazingly, Georgitis was able to keep his arm, and he says he feels blessed to be alive.
[65] I wonder if he'll think twice next time before going shark teeth diving.
[66] All right, those are your drive -home updates this afternoon.
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