Pro-Palestinian protests are taking place at major US universities, prompting some officials to take extraordinary steps to confront the growing crisis. Follow for live news updates.

A group of former prosecutors and media pundits have been gathering in off-the-record Zoom calls to discuss former President Donald Trump.

Stephan Sterns, 38, was charged with first-degree murder on Wednesday in connection with the February disappearance and death of his girlfriend's 13-year-old daughter.

There were more than 120 new arrests as universities moved to prevent pro-Palestinian encampments from taking hold as they have at Columbia University.

Protests have broken out at colleges and universities across the country in connection with the war in Gaza.

ABCJimmy Kimmel and Kanye West have a tumultuous history—and, based on the roasting he gave Ye on Wednesday, the late-night host seems just fine keeping it that way.Earlier this week, reports surfaced that West was in the planning stages of launching his very own porn studio. On Wednesday, the rapper seemed to confirm those reports when he tweeted a message: “Yeezy Porn Is Cumming.”Kimmel barely raised an eyebrow upon hearing the news.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/FXDo you hear the ceremonial bagpipes playing? That’s the sound of a few ruddy Celtic men, bellowing into their horns to honor the dearly departed spirit of our darling Siobhan Corbyn. We knew her for less than a year, but what we had together felt like a lifetime.If that name strikes you funny, perhaps you should brush up on your Irish royal history. Siobhan was Kim Kardashian’s suspiciously named character on American Horror Story: Delicate, an uber bitchy, high-powered Hollywood publicist with a strange obsession with her pregnant client, actress Anna Victoria Alcott (Emma Roberts), and Anna’s unborn child. (Warning: spoilers ahead.)Read more at The Daily Beast.

A 17-year-old student is in custody after shooting a fellow-student at a public high school in Texas on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

Letter writer interrupted one conversation for another conversation and feels bad.

This decadent weeknight pasta recipe is adapted from Stephanie Dietz, who runs the Pink Dinghy in Virginia Beach, Va.

Husband’s work travel has increased, and this letter writer is burned out from carrying home, business and kids solo.

Sister-in-law is upset letter writer asked her to stop venting about her late mother-in-law.

Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered across Australia and New Zealand for dawn services and street marches to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day

CNNHouse Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), speaking to CNN right after his cold reception by pro-Palestine Columbia University student protesters, said he wasn’t surprised by the situation, since he was there to essentially issue a reprimand.Johnson told Erin Burnett that he and the other Republican lawmakers who joined him on campus had a message for the students.“I’m not surprised that they didn’t welcome our visit, because we’re calling out their activities,” Johnson said. “The point we tried to make today is that this is not who we are as Americans. This is not an expression of the First Amendment. This is not an exchange of ideas. This is threats and intimidation of violence against Jewish students for who they are, for their faith, and that’s a terrible trend that’s going on in the country right now.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

The Cumberland Valley School Board reversed its decision to cancel Maulik Pancholy’s speech at a middle school next month after many community members said the actor had been discriminated against because of his sexuality.

Several former and current key aides to former President Donald Trump appear to be among those charged by the Arizona State Attorney General.

Colleges are set to welcome students and their families for commencements in coming weeks as student-led protests rock campuses across the country.

Buckingham Palace via InstagramWhat timing!Buckingham Palace posted a high-production advertisement Wednesday for its own brand of strawberry jam—just days after Meghan Markle unveiled her own jam line as part of a new lifestyle brand called American Riviera Orchard.The ad was posted to the palace’s Instagram on Wednesday morning, showing a woman’s hand slathering strawberry jam on a scone, a crumpet, a croissant, and on toast.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Reuters/Paul MorigiRep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ) died Wednesday, succumbing to complications from a heart attack he suffered earlier this month, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced Wednesday. He was 65.Payne had been unconscious since his heart attack on April 6, which his office said stemmed from diabetes.He was in the middle of his sixth term in Congress, representing Newark and parts of Essex, Hudson, and Union Counties. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Irvin dazzled last week in Chavez Ravine, but the Dodgers were not fooled at Nationals Park.

A Secret Service agent was removed from their assignment Monday after they started a physical fight with other agents, a source told Fox News Digital.

Texas authorities made more than 20 arrests at a disruptive anti-Israel protest at the University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday, as the Israel-Hamas war continues.

Fox News host Jesse Watters criticizes the Biden administration's failure to treat anti-Israel protests as a threat to national security on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

University of Southern California, Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University all had student riots on Wednesday, as anti-Israel hostility on college campuses grows.

Scouted/The Daily Beast/Retailers.Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission.I have a reputation as a thoughtful gift-giver. Of course, as any great athlete will tell you, playing your best means being unafraid to take a big shot, and those shots don’t always make it in. As my wife and I approach our 9th wedding anniversary, I can assure you I’ve swung and missed quite a few times. However, the best athletes also never hang their heads after a loss, and instead use it as a learning experience.With that approach in mind, I’ve decided to turn my Ls into Ws by offering you my hard-earned wisdom. What follows is advice on what NOT to give your partner this Mother’s Day, paired with some winning alternatives to consider instead. Whether for your own wife, mother, mother-in-law, or stepmom, here is what to avoid gifting the moms in your life on Mother’s Day. Read more at The Daily Beast.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., spoke out on "Jesse Watters Primetime" after addressing students on Columbia University's campus, where he faced anti-Israel crowds.

Police gather in preparation to break up protests at USC after campus police issued a dispersal order. CNN's Anderson Cooper talks with former DC Police Chief and CNN Law Enforcement Analyst Charles Ramsey.

NASA re-established communication with Voyager 1, an interstellar spacecraft that nearly five months ago began sending unreadable data back to the space agency.

An Oklahoma man admitted to "bludgeoning" his girlfriend's relative and dumping the victim's body in a nearby wildlife refugee, police said.

Amnesty International said in its annual report Wednesday that authorities in Togo have prevented civilians from protesting peacefully, and have repressed the media.

North Macedonia will hold a presidential runoff on May 8 after no candidate secured enough support from voters to win outright; voting will coincide with parliamentary elections.

A former student at the Berklee College of Music has been given a nine-month prison sentence for threatening and stalking a person who posted a leaflet in support of democracy in China.

Federal wildlife officials announced a bottlenose dolphin was found shot to death last month on West Mae’s Beach in southwest Louisiana; up to $20,000 is being offered for information.

Gov. Ned Lamont was hit with a citation for cutting down trees and bushes in protected wetland areas behind his $7.5 million Greenwich, Connecticut home.

Protests calling for the divestment from Israeli military operations have continued to spread on college campuses throughout the country.

The Federal Trade Commission has voted to ban noncompete agreements, and the Biden administration has finalized a rule that will allow more workers to be eligible for overtime pay.

Chynna Phillips asked for prayers ahead of her surgery to remove a nearly foot-long, benign tumor in her left leg that she's had since she was a child.

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley is pushing to expand payments to those exposed to Manhattan Project chemicals in states, including Alaska, Kentucky and Tennessee.

Marc J. FranklinThe last Uncle Vanya to cause a stir in New York was far more modest in physical size than the Broadway production opening tonight at Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumont Theater (to June 16), yet left a more emphatic impression. It took place in a Flatiron loft, with the audience seated in two rows running the length of the property’s living room, with its brilliant actors—including Bill Irwin, Marin Ireland, David Cromer, and Will Brill (now starring in the season’s deserved biggest hit, Stereophonic)—performing inches from audience members’ feet. As hearts broke, guns appeared, and so many feelings went unsaid, all felt viscerally immediate and clear.The much-anticipated LCT production—the Hollywood star Steve Carell’s Broadway debut—is, first of all, such an odd duck to look at. The Beaumont stage is Lincoln Center’s biggest, but what fills it here? Not much, and not much logically and engagingly. A picnic table. Random tables, chairs (kind of looks mid-century modern). The actors are in modern dress, and drift and shimmy all over the expanse—the floor looks like the cross section of tree. They sometimes seem to get lost, and so—despite some standout performances—unfortunately do we.This production of Vanya, directed by Lila Neugebauer, has been adapted by Heidi Schreck, the playwright and performer of the exquisite, and rightly acclaimed, What the Constitution Means to Me for which she received Tony nominations for Best Play and Best Actress (this season, Playbill reports, it’s America’s most produced play). Schreck told Playbill she is a “big Russian literature nerd” who first fell in love with Chekhov when performing in a production of Three Sisters while in college. She studied Russian, taught in Siberia, and worked as a journalist in St. Petersburg. She and her husband, director Kip Fagan, met while working on a production of The Seagull. “Chekhov’s been a very big part of my life for a long time,” Schreck told Playbill.Read more at The Daily Beast.

A grand jury has indicted 11 alleged "fake electors" who backed former President Trump falsely as having won the state of Arizona in 2020, charging them with conspiracy, fraud and forgery.

Michigan's J.J. McCarthy said he has "somewhat of an idea" where he could go in the 2024 NFL Draft, and he mentioned the New York Giants first before rattling off other teams.

Alabama is on track to further restrict discussions of "gender identity or sexual orientation" in public schools in a new proposal of the so-called "Don't So Gay" law.

The U.S. Attorney's office says a Chinese former student at Boston's Berklee College of Music has been sentenced to nine months in prison for stalking and threatening a person who posted a flyer in support of democracy in the Asian country

An Indigenous group in Brazil says its members detained 12 people for allegedly mining illegally in the Amazon and handed them over to police

Fox NewsJesse Watters, who is still not done complaining about how Donald Trump is being treated unfairly during his New York criminal trial, compared the indicted former president to King Kong on Wednesday, only to be reminded by his colleagues that the giant, gorilla-like monster in the original creature feature dies at the end of the film.If you had thought the Fox News host had got all of his gripes out of the way on Monday’s episode of The Five, think again. Just two days later, Watters suggested that requiring Trump to adhere to the courtroom rules and trial schedule could result in violent consequences.Democrats, Watters began, feel threatened by Trump “because he can play on their turf in the Rust Belt, and he can play in their base with Blacks, hispanics, young people.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

A new rule in California aims to limit health care price increases to just 3% each year

Carey Wright, a former Mississippi schools chief, was named the next Maryland state superintendent of schools. She will serve a four-year term starting July 1.

Buckingham Palace has been accused of shading Meghan Markle with a new ad, promoting their strawberry preserves days after Markle debuted her strawberry jam.