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• Student encampments shutdown amid violent confrontations and building occupations.
• May Day rallies held around the world including in the Bay Area.
• Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for vote on House Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership.
• May Day rallies held around the world including in the Bay Area.
• Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli leaders, calls for ceasefire in Gaza war.
• Harvey Weinstein back in New York courtroom for first time since appeals court rescinded his 2020 rape conviction.
• Florida abortion ban goes into effect. 

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