Photos: Tensions grow as pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses continue Los Angeles Times

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The university has also canceled a main-stage commencement address by film director Jon M. Chu and appearances by honorary degree recipients including tennis legend Billie Jean King. The arrests Wednesday evening followed several clashes with campus safety officers earlier in the day as LAPD officers began to line up outside campus. Tensions have grown at colleges since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants, who killed about 1,200 people and took roughly 240 hostages. Gaza health authorities say Israel’s retaliatory war has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians. The health authorities don’t distinguish between combatants and noncombatants but say at least two-thirds of the dead are children and women. According to the United Nations, 2 million Gazans are living in near-famine conditions.

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But students say they are determined to remain at their encampments until their respective universities hear and meet their demands. Los Angeles Police Department officers arrested 93 people on trespassing charges at USC this week, too, clearing the solidarity encampment. A day prior, organizers at Harvard University set up an encampment at the heart of Harvard Yard, which was closed by administrators in anticipation of pro-Palestinian protests earlier this week.

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Penn said Yoo did not have any previous interactions with officers at the address of the now-obliterated home. The only documented incidents between Yoo and law enforcement, he said, are two calls for service for loud noise over the past couple of years. Workers on Tuesday examine the home that exploded in Arlington, Va., on Monday night. The FBI in Washington was assisting in the investigation, a spokesperson for the agency's field office there said. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also said it had fire investigators at the scene ready to assist. The circumstances of the explosion were under investigation, Savage said.

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"We can't confirm if he was in the home or outside of the home. We do know originally, we had no injuries and then someone presented themselves to first responders on scene with injuries," Bureau Chief Travis Francis told 11 News. "He was immediately treated by our EMS crews and transported to the hospital." A house exploded late Saturday night in Essex, filling the neighborhood with smoke. A Utah neighborhood was evacuated and locked down Tuesday night after "ancient dynamite" was found in a home, authorities said. The department review led to new protocols for the bomb squad to prevent any similar events from happening in the future, according to the LAPD.

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Built in 1959, the Stahl House is a modernist style home and considered to be an iconic representation of modern L.A. “It’s extremely difficult to do with any fairness and accuracy,” a former University of California official told the Wall Street Journal. “All student organizing efforts are rooted in the right of return and liberation, in centering Gaza,” Bears for Palestine, a student organization at UC Berkeley, told The Times in an email.

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Pro-Palestinian encampments are spreading across U.S. colleges. What are the students demanding?

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“We have not been able to access the home at this point, so I don’t have the status of the suspect,” said Ashley Savage, a spokeswoman for the Arlington County Police Department, by phone. The man was “believed to be inside the residence at the time of the explosion.” The investigation into the explosion is ongoing, the police said in the statement. A house in Arlington, Va., exploded into flames on Monday night while the police were preparing to search it after reports of gunfire and a standoff with the man who lived there. “Keegan and Casey will be missed by so many and will continue to be loved by so many including their family, friends, and community,” the statement added. Penn noted that officials are aware of "concerning" social media posts allegedly made by Yoo, adding that they will be reviewed as part of the investigation.

Those buying the trucks can qualify for state and federal subsidies to make up most of the upfront costs. OAKLAND — The first commercial hydrogen fuel station for big-rig trucks in the U.S. is up and running at the Port of Oakland, a baby step toward what hydrogen proponents see as a clean new future for long-haul trucking. Off-campus groups circulated video of the protests and called on the public to show up at USC. Dozens of LAPD officers were on campus starting at 4 p.m., forming a line around the park. The USC administration said it had closed the gates to campus and was instituting an ID check to make sure only university-affiliated individuals were allowed in. Professors were given the option — which many took — of conducting classes online Thursday.

On Wednesday night, Price met with residents who expressed frustration over relocation services, the slow process to get their homes repaired and the possibility of getting kicked out of the hotel. Unified Fire Department officials said the owner of a home discovered the dynamite and called authorities. Hazardous materials teams, bomb squads, public health officials and others from multiple agencies responded. "It's just tragic, I mean, it looks like a war zone — it looks like a bomb hit our neighborhood and it's just unfortunate," Kolankowski said. "I was just with some of the neighbors yesterday, right, and now this happens." Rafal Kolankowski, who lives a few houses away, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the explosion broke the windows in his house and knocked him and his wife to the ground.

One officer at the scene said the protesters were being taken to 77th Street Community Police Station. It is unclear whether some of those arrested were taken to other stations. Some ran when officers pressed forward in an effort to move them out toward a north gate to the campus. ” demonstrators chanted as police took away students and off-campus activists.

After recovering and checking on his son, he went outside where he said a woman told him another woman had been upstairs and a man was in the basement. The other woman later emerged covered in white ash, but the individual in the basement had not yet exited, he said. Six people were killed and several others injured in a house explosion Saturday in Plum, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The explosion destroyed three structures and damaged at least a dozen others, authorities said. A neighbor's surveillance camera captured the blast from the explosion, which residents described as a bomb going off. The video shows the blast briefly lighting up the street Sunday night and rocking the area, causing car alarms to sound.

The encampments and protests are students’ attempt to focus attention on the Gaza Strip. After the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, in which 1,200 people were killed and 240 were taken hostage, more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory war, according to the Gaza health authorities. ESSEX, Md. — An explosion razed a home in suburban Baltimore, officials said, sending one person to the hospital for injuries and requiring aid from dozens of firefighters to douse the flames. Ron Gochez of Unión del Barrio, which has helped organize community members affected by the blast, told Price they need to see work being done on homes on the street by Aug. 1, or residents will start protesting the city. Plum and county law enforcement, as well as the county fire marshal's office, are investigating, and the state public utilities commission and local utilities were also at the scene.

The theater was constructed by Sid Grumman, who was also the force behind Grumman’s Egyptian Theater and Grumman’s Chinese Theater, both located in Hollywood. Today, this building is just an empty space used for filming but occasionally screens fund-raising movies for the L.A. The current encampments and protests are “well within a deeply worn tradition of student activism on college campuses,” said Cohen.