Seniors at New York college surprised with free tuition on first day of classes

new york (WPIX) — Cooper Union, a private university in lower Manhattan, announced Tuesday that it will not pay any tuition for its final year of students. The announcement came as a complete surprise to students at NYU, who said that outgoing president Laura Sparks announced the news at the commencement ceremony. The scholarship was […]

Masked anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University demonstrate as students check in for first day of classes

Masked anti-Israel protesters demonstrated outside the entrance to Columbia University on Tuesday, chanting “Free Palestine!” and holding signs urging the Ivy League school to “Divest from Death” as students prepared for their first day of classes. The demonstration came following a series of protests that rocked the New York City-based university, garnering worldwide media attention […]

12:30 Report — Trump, Harris’s post-Labor Day mad dash

{beacon}  Watch Online  @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { #thehillheader { background-color: #2a53c1 !important; color: white !important; } } 12:30 Report Welcome back from Labor Day weekend. It's Tuesday, which means it's officially September. I always thought the year started the day after Labor Day, not January 1st (don't @ me). Still, it feels like a very […]

Texas hiker says Grand Canyon flash flood rescue was ‘craziest day’

A Texas hiker has described last month's deadly flash floods in Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park, leaving more than 100 hikers stranded, as “the craziest day of my life.” Whitney Raquel, 35, He told SFGate She and her friend, Paige Rene, were on a three-night trip to the Havasupai Reservation, whose beautiful waterfalls, creekside campsites […]

Harris, Biden court union workers in battleground Pennsylvania with Labor Day rally

Vice President Harris and President Biden rallied with union workers in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania on Labor Day (September 14) in an effort to shore up Biden's support among blue-collar voters ahead of the November election. “I'm going to continue to rely on the strength, the determination and the hard work of the […]

This Labor Day, celebrate the work of property owners, too

Although Workers Day was conceived and instituted as a way to honor and promote the interests of the organized labor movement and the unions that control it, the day can take on much more significance than that if we view it as a day to commemorate the fundamental importance of work as an element of […]