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Award-winning children’s author and Smith College astronomy professor Meg Thacher will host a discussion about the upcoming solar eclipse Saturday at 2:30 p.m., at the West Springfield Public Library, 200 Park St. The solar eclipse will happen Monday, April 8, when the moon moves in front of the sun. The best viewing of a total eclipse will be to the north of Springfield in Vermont. According

With that, the encampment began. For more than 24 hours, students and activists refused to leave the lawn of George Washington University’s downtown campus — calling for schools to cut ties with Israel and to protect the free speech of pro-Palestinian student organizers. Some advocated the end of the state of Israel. Students held up bullhorns and chanted slogans like: “Free, free Palestine!”

Twenty students from St. Mary’s College in Moraga occupied a chapel and eight students began a hunger strike on Wednesday night to push the university to disclose all of its financial investments and divest from any corporations supporting Israel’s war in Gaza. The students remained in the Chapel of the Most Blessed Virgin, near the entrance to campus, on Thursday. They also called on the

A US federal court threw out Alabama's newly redrawn electoral map Tuesday, saying it continues to deny fair political representation to Black Americans in violation of a Supreme Court ruling. A three-judge panel said the Alabama legislature's new map persisted in illegally watering down the voting power of African American citizens, effectively minimizing their ability to elect Black