Dozens of students and faculty at Taylor University in Indiana reportedly walked out of a graduation ceremony Saturday minutes before Vice President Pence took the stage to deliver the commencement address.
The protest, which was planned prior to Saturday’s ceremony, comes after the university community debated the appropriateness of Pence’s appearance at the Christian liberal arts institution, according to the Indianapolis Star.
Most of Taylor’s graduating class of 494 students, however, remained for Pence’s speech and gave the former Indiana GOP governor a standing ovation after the walkout, the newspaper reported.
Read more at The Hill.

Amid a backlash in response to a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student holding a Nazi sign with antisemitic language while protesting an Israel Independence Day event on May 6, the school, citing freedom of speech, said such action cannot be stopped.
Kristian Gresham has been described as “a 26-year-old man with a documented history of aggressive, racist and criminal behavior, [who] demonstrated last week before a group of Jewish and pro-Israel students while holding signs that featured swastikas and a call to gas Jewish students,” according to a Change.org petition calling for his expulsion from the school, which to date has 835 signatures.

New York City PBD President Patrick Lynch explains why he organized a protest against Mayor Bill de Blasio.
WATCH:

Joe Biden mixed calls for unity with jabs at President Trump Saturday as he officially launched his presidential campaign in Philadelphia.
Speaking on a Philadelphia stage accompanied by screens that encouraged supporters to text “UNITED” to a campaign number, the former vice president appeared in his signature aviator sunglasses to cast his White House bid as an effort to “restore the soul of our nation.”
“Our politics has become so mean, so petty, so negative, so partisan, so angry and so unproductive, so unproductive. Instead of debating our opponents, we demonize them. Instead of questioning judgement, we question their motives. Instead of listening, we shout. Instead of looking for solutions, we look to score political points,” he said.

The second of three defendants in an alleged $550 million Ponzi scheme pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Baltimore after signing an agreement with federal prosecutors.
Kevin Merrill, 53, of Towson, Maryland, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of wire fraud, each of which carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years and a maximum fine of $500,000 or twice the gross gain. He pleaded not guilty to 13 other counts.
The plea agreement comes just six weeks after Cameron Jezierski, Merrill’s Texas-based co-defendant, pleaded guilty to similar charges. The third co-defendant, Jay Ledford, also of Texas, is awaiting trial. All three still face Securities and Exchange Commission charges.

Holocaust survivor Sophie Tajch Klisman on meeting the man who played a role in liberating the concentration camp she was imprisoned in.
WATCH:

President Trump on Sunday ripped Rep. Justin Amash for saying that the president had reached the “threshold for impeachment,” accusing the conservative lawmaker of leveling the charge “for the sake of getting his name out there through controversy.”
“Never a fan of @justinamash, a total lightweight who opposes me and some of our great Republican ideas and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there through controversy,” Trump said on Twitter.
Trump added that Amash would see that he was misguided if he “actually read the biased” report put together by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Twenty members of an extreme Neturei Karta offshoot founded by Moshe Hirsch visited the kever of Yosef Hatzaddik in Shechem under the protection of Palestinian police and visited the authority’s national security chief.
“We told him that we want to live in peace and he agreed with us; it was a very friendly meeting,” said Yisroel Meir Hirsch, son of the group’s founder and its current leader.
{Matzav.com Israel}

One of New York’s top medical associations reiterated its opposition to assisted suicide as lawmakers debate a bill to allow the practice.
The Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) rejected a bill that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication to patients that have received terminal diagnoses. Dr. Arthur Fougner, the group’s president, acknowledged that end-of-life care is a “complex issue,” but said that any bid to legalize the practice would harm “vulnerable populations.”