Fifty-seven people protesting Israel were arrested on trespassing charges Wednesday during a sit-in outside the offices of the chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
The 56 student and one university employee refused to leave the third floor of the Whitmore Administration Building after the building closed at 6 p.m., according to The Daily Collegian, the student newspaper at the school.
U.S. vice president Kamala Harris praised Australia's sweeping gun control laws while lamenting a mass shooting in Maine on Wednesday night that left 18 dead and 13 injured.
"Gun violence has terrorized and traumatized so many of our communities in this country. And let us be clear. It does not have to be this way. As our friends in Australia have demonstrated," Harris said Thursday.
