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Woman Who Spread Flyers With Miller's Address Is Off the Hook

Prosecutor won't pursue criminal charges against retired peace-studies professor after Va. incident

(Newser) - A retired peace-studies professor who dropped anti-Trump administration flyers around Stephen Miller's Virginia neighborhood won't be hit with state charges. Arlington County Commonwealth's Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti said there's not enough evidence that activist Barbara Wien intended to threaten or harass the White House aide when she...

5 Days In, Protester Remains Atop DC Bridge

Guido Reichstadter says he wants a stop to Iran war, development of AI

(Newser) - Commuters on Washington, DC's Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge have spent the past five days looking up. At the top of one of the bridge's soaring arches sits 45-year-old activist Guido Reichstadter, who climbed up Friday, pitched a tent, and has refused to come down as he protests the US-Israel war...

Irish Police Reopen Refinery as Protesters Shut Fuel Depots
Ireland to Cut Fuel Tax
in Response to Protests
updated
Apr 12, 2026 1:55 PM CDT

Ireland to Cut Fuel Tax in Response to Protests

It's the second reduction since Iran war began

(Newser) - While slamming the protest tactics of farmers and truckers who had blocked access to Ireland's only oil refinery and several depots, Prime Minister Micheál Martin said Sunday that his government plans new fuel tax cuts in response to soaring gas prices caused by the Iran war. The $592...

Crowds Oppose, Mock Trump at 'No Kings' Rallies

'They picked the wrong city,' Springsteen tells Minneapolis

(Newser) - Demonstrators turned out for "No Kings" rallies around the world on Saturday in opposition to President Trump and his policies involving the Iran war, immigration enforcement, elections, health care, the Epstein files, the environment—and authoritarianism. In Washington, Bill Jarcho was in a small group wearing tactical vests marked...

Minnesota Is at Center of Saturday's 'No Kings' Protest

Organizers predict 9M-plus at rallies across the nation demonstrating against Trump administration

(Newser) - Organizers of Saturday's "No Kings" rallies across the US predict that the protests against the Trump administration could result in one of the largest demonstrations in US history, with Minnesota at center stage. Organizers say more than 3,100 events are registered in all 50 states, with 9...

Springsteen to Perform at Minnesota's 'No Kings' Rally

He'll be joined by Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, Bernie Sanders

(Newser) - Minnesota will be the flagship of the "No Kings" protest movement Saturday when Bruce Springsteen performs " Streets of Minneapolis " in a state where emotions are still raw over President Trump's immigration crackdown and the deaths of two residents shot by federal officers, the AP reports. More...

Unequal Alcohol Limits Lead to Syrian Protest

Sales are still legal in 3 mostly Christian neighborhoods in Damascus

(Newser) - Crowds of Syrians rallied Sunday to protest authorities' efforts to limit the sale and consumption of alcohol in Damascus, reflecting rising anxiety in the cosmopolitan capital that Syria's new Islamist government may threaten long-held secular freedoms. Hundreds of residents from a range of religious sects poured into a grassy...

Justice Department Sues Harvard Over Antisemitism

Administration wants to claw back 'billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies'

(Newser) - Harvard is once again in the Trump administration's crosshairs , this time over accusations it failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students and staff. The administration on Friday filed a civil-rights lawsuit in federal court in Boston, claiming the university ignored antisemitic harassment and discrimination in the wake of Hamas' Oct....

10K Authors Release Empty Book to Push Back on AI Theft

Authors urge UK to block copyright changes favoring AI firms, alleging their work is being stolen

(Newser) - Some of Britain's best-known writers are making their point with a book that contains almost nothing. Around 10,000 authors, including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, Malorie Blackman, and Mick Herron, have put only their names into a new work titled Don't Steal This Book , a protest...

Coalition Kicks Off Protests Across US Against Attack

Crowd gathers near White House, and more demonstrations are scheduled for Sunday

(Newser) - A network of activist groups is organizing nationwide demonstrations this weekend in response to US and Israeli military strikes on Iran . The Action Coalition, which includes the Palestinian Youth Movement, Democratic Socialists of America, Code Pink, and the People's Forum, said it is coordinating "emergency protests" in dozens of...

After Don Lemon Arrest, an Indictment for 30 More

AG Bondi accuses protesters of attacking house of worship after January protest at St. Paul church

(Newser) - Attorney General Pam Bondi announced federal charges on Friday against 30 more people who are accused of civil rights violations in a January protest inside a Minnesota church where a pastor works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Bondi said on social media that 25 people were in custody and more...

Alex Pretti's Parents Have a Question: Why?

Michael and Susan Pretti say their son was killed for no good reason in first major interview

(Newser) - In a Denver-area living room, a cardboard box stuffed with hundreds of letters now doubles as a counterpoint to how the Trump administration has portrayed Alex Pretti. In a detailed piece for the New York Times , Jack Healy talks with Michael and Susan Pretti less than three weeks after their...

Feds Barred From Using Tear Gas on ICE Protesters

Temporary order bans chemical, projectile munitions in Portland, Ore., in most cases

(Newser) - Federal officers are temporarily barred from using tear gas at protests outside a Portland immigration building, an Oregon judge ruled Tuesday, just days after agents fired gas into a crowd of demonstrators that local officials described as peaceful and which included young children. US District Judge Michael Simon ordered federal...

This Could Be the 'Largest Protest in American History'

Organizers hope that's the case for new nationwide 'No Kings' rally on March 28 amid outrage over ICE

(Newser) - A third round of "No Kings" protests is coming this spring, with organizers saying they're planning their largest demonstrations yet across the United States to oppose what they describe as authoritarianism under President Trump. Previous rallies have drawn millions of people, and organizers say they expect even greater...

Student Struck in Apparent Hit-and-Run at ICE Protest

Nebraska girl hospitalized after SUV with Trump flag hit her

(Newser) - A student-led protest in Fremont, Nebraska, turned dangerous on Thursday when a red SUV struck a student and then drove away, according to school officials and video of the apparent hit-and-run incident, reports Nebraska Public Media . Footage from News Channel Nebraska shows the vehicle, flying a flag backing Donald Trump'...

EU: Iran's Revolutionary Guard Are Terrorists

European Union designates paramilitary group a terrorist organization

(Newser) - The European Union has listed Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization over Tehran's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests, the bloc's top diplomat said in an X post on Thursday. Kaja Kallas, the EU's foreign policy chief, said that foreign ministers unanimously agreed on the...

Some British MPs Will Have to Find New Watering Holes

Pub, restaurant landlords ban Labour lawmakers to protest soaring business property taxes

(Newser) - British lawmakers can still raise a glass in most places—but more than 1,400 pubs and restaurants say Labour MPs can drink somewhere else. The unusual boycott began at the Old Thatch, a 17th-century pub in Wimborne, in southern England, where landlord Andy Lennox put up a "No...

ICE Protests Shut Minneapolis as 100 Clergy Are Arrested

Stoppage shows 'what the world's going to look like if you take our hardworking neighbors away,' business owner says

(Newser) - Police arrested about 100 clergy members demonstrating against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions at Minnesota's largest airport on Friday. The protesters had overstepped their permit, officials said as a mass mobilization against the federal operation began across the state, the AP reports. A network of labor unions,...

Vance: Just Cooperate and There'll Be Less ICE 'Chaos'

Vice president links protests, ICE clashes to Democrats' lack of cooperation

(Newser) - Vice President JD Vance says the key to calming recent unrest in Minneapolis isn't fewer federal agents—it's more cooperation from Democratic leaders. Speaking in the city Thursday after a roundtable with business leaders and law-enforcement officials, Vance argued that clashes around Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations...

Court: Feds Can Detain, Tear-Gas Peaceful Protesters

Appeals court freezes ruling banning retaliation against Minnesota protesters

(Newser) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday suspended a decision that prohibited federal officers from using tear gas or pepper spray against peaceful protesters in Minnesota. The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals was persuaded to freeze a judge's ruling that bars retaliation against the public in Minnesota, including detaining...

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