President Joe Biden is staying mum about student protests and police crackdowns as Republicans try to turn campus unrest over the war in Gaza into a campaign cudgel against Democrats. Tension at colleges and universities has been building for days as some demonstrators refuse to remove encampments and administrators turn to law enforcement to clear them by force,

Police arrested about 300 protesters at Columbia University and the City College of New York after officers in riot gear entered Columbia’s campus, breaching the Hamilton Hall building occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters.

STORY: Georgian police clashed with protesters on Wednesday after parliament approved the second reading of a new controversial law which has been criticised as inspired by Russia.The “foreign agents” bill would require organizations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as agents of foreign influence which opponents feel will lead to a crack down on freedom of speech.