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Following a Tough Night, Columbia Looks for a Solution

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[ad_1] Columbia University awoke Wednesday after it narrowly avoided, for now, another confrontation with students over their sprawling protest encampment. But the university faced a swirl of doubts over the future of its president, Nemat Shafik, and her efforts to calm the campus in Upper Manhattan. Underscoring the spectrum of pressures on Dr. Shafik, the columbia campus was bracing for a day of studied tumult, with House Speaker Mike Johnson scheduled to visit Jewish students at Columbia and Dr. Shafik expected to confer with the university senate, which could censure…

Park Rangers Search for 2 Vandals Who Toppled Ancient Rocks at Lake Mead

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[ad_1] The National Park Service is seeking help from the public to find two men who were captured on camera toppling an ancient natural rock formation at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada last week, officials said on Monday. A video posted on April 7 shows the two men, legs bent, pushing the large red rocks. A young girl in the background can be heard yelling: “Don’t fall … Daddy! Daddy!” As the men try to move the rocks, another person is heard off-camera saying, “But why?” The National…

Power Shut Off to 55,000 in Colorado to Prevent Wind-Fueled Wildfires

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[ad_1] A power company in Colorado announced on Saturday that it was cutting power to roughly 55,000 customers over wildfire concerns as powerful winds, some as high as 100 miles per hour, battered the state. The company, Xcel Energy, said in a statement that it “made the decision to proactively de-energize lines,” which would affect customers primarily in Boulder County and small parts of Broomfield, Douglas, Gilpin, Jefferson and Larimer counties. The shut-off was expected to start at 3 p.m. local time and last until at least noon on Sunday.…

Key Bridge Was Also Hit by a Ship in 1980, With Limited Damage

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[ad_1] The massive cargo ship that lost control and slammed into a major Baltimore Key Bridge  on Tuesday was not the first to do so. The same bridge was also hit by a wayward cargo vessel in 1980. On Aug. 29 of that year, a container ship named the Blue Nagoya drifted into a pier that supported the structure, the Francis Scott Key Bridge, after losing control about 1,800 feet away, according to a 1983 report by the U.S. National Research Council. When the Blue Nagoya hit the Key Bridge,…