Students protesting the ongoing war in Gaza left a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Southern California early Sunday after they were surrounded by police and told they could face arrest if they didn't go. The move, days before commencement was set to begin, came after the university said campus safety officers, assisted by the Los Angeles Police Department, were clearing the area. If you are in the center of campus, please leave.

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Pittsburgh-based PNC Bank says an unspecified "issue" affecting its online and mobile banking services has been resolved. The bank announced the problem on its PNC Bank Help Twitter feed before 11 a.m. Tuesday, then said it was fixed about three hours later. PNC called it a "technology hardware issue" but didn't get more specific. The bank had urged customers to use automatic teller machines or visit its branches to handle any transactions while the problem persisted.

WICHITA Falls, Texas (KVII) — An Air Force instructor pilot was killed Tuesday morning when their ejection seat activated while on the ground at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls. Capt. John Robertson, who was part of the 80th Flying Training Wing, was in a T-6A Texan II when the accident occurred. "This is a devastating loss for Captain Robertson's family and loved ones, and for the entire 80th Flying Training Wing,"

(TND) — Achieving the “American Dream” is getting harder to reach as prices have outpaced increases in wages for most Americans that are struggling to keep up with bills and preventing them from saving for a house or retirement, fueling concerns that they may never get to achieve some of the core life milestones that are expected for a person living in the U.S. The cost of achieving common milestones like buying a house, raising children and going to college have skyrocketed over the last several years after the coronavirus pandemic uprooted the economy and accelerated prices once people returned to pre-pandemic habits.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers pulled back on their hiring in April, adding a modest 175,000 jobs in a sign that persistently high interest rates may be starting to take a bigger toll on the world’s largest economy. Friday’s government report showed that last month’s hiring gain was down sharply from the blockbuster increase of 315,000 in March. And it was well below the 233,000 gain that economists had predicted for April, suggesting that the Federal Reserve’s aggressive streak of rate hikes may finally be cooling the pace of hiring.