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By outside appearances, Joey Cipolla was living large. The 30-something Chicago businessman had seemingly made a small fortune buying and selling luxury cars and leasing private airplanes. He was living in a 12,000 square-foot mansion in west suburban Bloomingdale with a Lamborghini and Bentley in the driveway. He piloted his own Cessna, spent money like water and gambled thousands of dollars at a time in Las Vegas and at local casinos. 

Police arrested about 300 protesters at Columbia University and the City College of New York, authorities said Wednesday morning, after officers in riot gear entered Columbia’s campus Tuesday night, breaching the Hamilton Hall building occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters.

India dismissed a Washington Post report alleging senior members of the country’s intelligence agency approved a plot to kill a U.S.-based Sikh activist, while on the same day raising concerns about separatists sentiments made at a Sikh event in Canada.

AMMAN, Jordan - The United States will press Israel to ensure humanitarian aid is effectively distributed within Gaza, Secretary of State Blinken said Tuesday, forecasting upcoming talks as the Biden administration seeks to turn tentative increases in aid shipments into more widespread improvements for desperate civilians.

A 40-year-old man from Idaho was arrested at Yellowstone National Park in April after rangers received a report that he harassed a herd of bison and kicked one of them in the leg.

Eight major daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Tuesday, joining the backlash to artificial-intelligence companies that have used copyrighted work to train their algorithms without compensating content owners.