US Domestic News Roundup: Campus Tensions, Political Maneuvers, and Natural Disasters

University heads testify on campus protests, Interpol issues a red notice for a Turkish teen and mother, an Iowa tornado leaves four dead, Trump targets Black voters, a fire at a California metal recycling plant, and US jobless claims fall. Nikki Haley supports Trump, and fears of post-election violence loom.

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

University heads to testify before US House committee on campus tensions

The heads of three universities and an academic honor society are due to testify on Thursday to the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce about universities' handling of pro-Palestinian protests. The hearing is the sixth event the committee and its subcommittees have held on schools' responses to tensions that have flared since Hamas militants mounted a deadly attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 and taking more than 250 hostage.

Interpol issues red notice for Turkish teen and mother in U.S. after car crash, says state media

Interpol granted Turkey's request to issue a red notice for a 17-year-old involved in a fatal car accident in Istanbul, as well as his mother who fled with him to the United States, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. It said Interpol issued the red notice on Thursday for Turkish novelist and poet Eylem Tok and her son, with whom she travelled to the United States via Egypt following the traffic incident in March.

Four confirmed dead in Iowa tornado as more storms threaten Southern Plains

Four people were killed and at least 35 were hurt, Iowa authorities said Wednesday, after a tornado slashed through the farming town of Greenfield the day before and reduced homes and other buildings to heaps of twisted rubble. Officials were still assessing the full extent of property damage in Greenfield, a community of 2,000 about 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Des Moines, the state capital.

Trump to hold South Bronx, New York, campaign rally in push for Black voters

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will host a campaign rally in the South Bronx neighborhood of New York on Thursday, targeting a Democratic stronghold as he tries to chip away at President Joe Biden's support among voters of color. Recent polls suggest Trump is gaining ground with Black and Hispanic voters, groups that traditionally have supported Democrats. Trump's campaign sees an opportunity to grab enough of their votes to make the difference in battleground states in the Nov. 5 election.

Fire extinguished at Sims' Redwood City metal recycling plant in California

A large fire that broke out at Sims' metal recycling facility in Redwood City, California on Wednesday has been extinguished, the company said. "At approximately 2:55 p.m. (Pacific time), we experienced a fire... Our team worked alongside the Redwood City Fire Department and the fire was extinguished just after 5.30 p.m.," the company said in an emailed statement to Reuters.

US weekly jobless claims fall as labor market remains solid

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, pointing to underlying strength in the labor market that should continue to support the economy. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 8,000 to a seasonally adjusted 215,000 for the week ended May 18, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 220,000 claims in the latest week.

Former Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley says she will vote for Trump

Former Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley said on Wednesday that she will vote for Donald Trump in the November election, despite lobbing harsh criticisms at her former rival for months on the campaign trail. There has been immense speculation on who will receive the votes of Haley's supporters in the Nov. 5 general election rematch between Trump and Democratic President Joe Biden.

Trump hush money trial to shape prosecutor Alvin Bragg's legacy

Alvin Bragg says he decided to become a lawyer after guns were pulled on him six times while growing up in New York - three of those times by police. A quarter-century after graduating from Harvard Law School, the Manhattan district attorney's legacy is set to be defined by the looming verdict in one of the most consequential cases in American history: the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump over hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.

UCLA police chief reassigned following mob attack on pro-Palestinian protesters

The police chief for the University of California at Los Angeles has been removed from his post three weeks after campus officials came under fire for their handling of a violent, overnight mob attack on pro-Palestinian activists encamped at UCLA. John Thomas, who was formally named head of the UCLA police force in January after a year as interim chief, has been "reassigned temporarily, pending an examination of our security processes," Vice Chancellor Mary Osako said in a statement on Wednesday.

Two-thirds in US fear violence could follow election, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

Two out of three Americans say they are concerned that political violence could follow the Nov. 5 election rematch between Democratic President Joe Biden and his Republican predecessor Donald Trump, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. The survey of 3,934 U.S. adults found widespread worries that the U.S. could see a repeat of the unrest that followed Trump's 2020 election defeat, when the then-president's false claim that his loss was the result of fraud prompted thousands of followers to storm the U.S. Capitol.

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