Karen Matthews

Members of the New York police crime scene unit photograph bullets lying on the sidewalk as they investigate the scene outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan where Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson killed by masked gunman outside New York City Hilton hotel

December 4, 2024 at 10:08 p.m.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed Wednesday morning in what investigators suspect was a targeted shooting outside a Manhattan hotel where the company was holding an investor conference.

Flags and flowers are placed by the names of those killed during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the reflecting pools at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Donald King)

9/11 anniversary brings Biden, Harris and Trump together at ground zero

September 11, 2024 at 3:08 p.m.

The U.S. remembered the lives taken and those reshaped by 9/11, marking an anniversary laced with presidential campaign politics as President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and Vice President...

FILE – Pro-Israel demonstrators gather for the “Bring Them Home Now” rally outside the Columbia University, April 26, 2024, in New York. Pro-Palestinian protesters have dominated university quads in the last two weeks, shutting down colleges and clashing with riot police. But there’s been a notable scarcity of student rallies in solidarity with Israelis. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Pro-Palestinian protesters break through barricades to retake MIT encampment

May 6, 2024 at 8:10 p.m.

Columbia University is canceling its large university-wide commencement ceremony amid ongoing pro-Palestinian protests but will hold smaller school-based ceremonies this week and next, the university announced Monday.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators embrace while charging devices at an encampment on the UCLA campus, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

Striking deals to end campus protests, some colleges invite discussion of their investments

May 3, 2024 at 5:59 p.m.

Demonstrations have ceased at a small number of U.S. universities after school leaders struck deals with pro-Palestinian protesters.

Students protest at an encampment outside the Kresge Auditorium on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Police tangle with students in Texas and California as wave of campus protest against Gaza war grows

April 24, 2024 at 3:41 p.m.

Police tangled with student demonstrators in Texas and California while new encampments sprouted at Harvard and other colleges as school leaders sought ways to defuse a growing wave of pro-Palestinian...

FILE – Police in Riot gear stand guard as demonstrators chant slogans outside the Columbia University campus, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in New York. U.S. colleges and universities are preparing for end-of-year commencement ceremonies with a unique challenge: providing safety for graduates while honoring the free speech rights of students involved in protests over the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

It began with defiance at Columbia. Now students nationwide are upping protests against the Gaza war

April 23, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.

What began last week when students at a New York Ivy League school refused to end their protest against Israel’s war with Hamas had turned into a much larger movement...

Spider-Man, the comic book hero that has been published by Marvel Comics since 1962. Steve Ditko, the comic's co-creator, has died at 90.

Steve Ditko, Spider-Man co-creator, dies at age 90

December 17, 2018 at 10:12 p.m.

Steve Ditko, the Marvel Comics artist who gave the world the woven webs and soaring red-and-blue shape of Spider-Man and the other-worldly shimmer of Doctor Strange, has died, authorities said...

School custodians, right, scrub and wash away blood spatter outside Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation, Wednesday Sept. 27, 2017, in New York. A high school student fighting with two classmates at the school pulled a switchblade killing one boy and wounding another.

‘I’ve never seen so much blood’: Teen arrested in fatal NYC school stabbing

August 22, 2019 at 6:04 a.m.

A high school student who hadn't been getting along with two classmates suddenly attacked them with a switchblade during history class Wednesday, killing one boy and gravely wounding another, police...

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