Vermont senator’s joint initiative aims to recruit and train those seeking public office, especially young people

Bernie Sanders is partnering with the group Run for Something to help support a new generation of progressive candidates interested in seeking public office.

Questions about the future of Sanders’ leftwing movement have followed his cross-country Fighting Oligarchy tour, where at each stop the Vermont senator encourages supporters to get involved and run for office. The initiative builds on those calls, Politico first reported, by teaming up with organizations that recruit and train candidates running for office, with an emphasis on young people.

NYPD officers entered campus’s main library building in riot gear after activists occupied area in hours-long standoff

The New York police department arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian activists who occupied part of the main library building on Columbia University’s campus on Wednesday evening, ending an hours-long standoff, roughly one year after student anti-war protest swept the Ivy League school.

Claire Shipman, the university’s acting president, said in a statement that she requested officers with the NYPD to help clear the building, after protesters had refused to leave despite being warned that a failure to comply would result in disciplinary action and possibly arrest for trespassing. A spokesperson for the NYPD said officers arrested “multiple individuals” who refused to disperse.

Workers at the esteemed news service say they’re being silenced by the president – but they’re vowing to fight back

Carolina Valladares Pérez, a Washington-based correspondent for the government-funded international news service Voice of America, has reported from places where press freedom is severely restricted – war zones and autocratic states – in the Middle East and across Latin America. Intimidation and threats from state officials were not unusual – but she always managed to get the story out.

Now for the first time in her career, Valladares Pérez says she has been silenced – not by a faraway regime, but by the government of the United States.