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Students start banned book clubs, anti-censorship groups amid book banning efforts Across the country, a generation of young readers is standing up against efforts to ban or restrict certain books in schools and libraries. Student-led banned book clubs and anti-censorship groups have been popping up in states where a conservative-led movement to remove certain books or lessons has led to boisterous board meetings, protests, and more. The students behind these groups say they have long been left out of the conversation, despite being the most impacted by such restrictions. "I thought it would be perfect to do a banned book club -- one: as just a way to read beautiful literature that's important and should be read and then two: kind of as an act of resistance," said 16-year-old Iris Mogul who recently started a banned book club in Miami, Florida. Iris Mogul created a banned book club in her school to combat attempts to restrict certain titles. Courtesy Iris Mogul Between Ja...

The Michigan Supreme Court has turned down an appeal and cleared the way for the parents of the Oxford High School shooter to face trial on involuntary manslaughter charges DETROIT -- The parents of a teenager who killed four students at Michigan's Oxford High School lost an appeal Tuesday and will face trial on involuntary manslaughter charges, a rare case of prosecutors attempting to pin some responsibility for a school shooting on the perpetrator's family. James and Jennifer Crumbley are accused of making a gun accessible to Ethan Crumbley and ignoring his mental Health needs. The state appeals court said in March that the couple could face trial , and the Michigan Supreme Court let that decision stand in a one-sentence order. Prosecutors in suburban Detroit had to show only that there was probable cause to put the parents on trial, a low threshold at this stage. The appeals court noted that an Oakland County jury will hear a more expansive case from all sides. The shoote...

Harvard University students are divided after the Hamas attack on Israel. A Palestinian support group released a statement that launched backlash, death threats and fear. Long a place of political and philosophical debate , college campus es, like Harvard University, are now at the center of a controversial debate over the war in Israel and bombing of Gaza. Harvard students told ABC News their campus is divided and people are scared in the aftermath of the breakout of the Israel-Hamas war. Student groups supporting Palestine issued a statement on the conflict saying the Israeli regime is "entirely responsible for all unfolding violence." "Today's events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to 'open the gates of hell,' and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced. Palestinians in Gaza have no shelters for refuge and nowhere to escap...

Four Maine Maritime Academy students were killed in a car after it crashed into a tree and erupted into flames in the town of Castine, Main, state police confirmed. Four Maine Maritime Academy students were killed in a car crash after it crash ed into a tree and erupted into flames in the town of Castine on Saturday, Main State Police confirmed. Three other students , including the driver Joshua Goncalves-Radding, were hurt and taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Main Police identified the victims as Brian Kenealy, 20, of York, Maine; Chase Fossett, 21, of Gardiner, Maine; Luke Simpson, 22, of Rockport, Massachusetts; and Riley Ignacio-Cameron, 20, of Aquinnah, Massachusetts. MORE: Driver charged in deadly Apple store crash said his foot got stuck on accelerator Goncalves-Radding, 20, was driving south on Route 166 in a 2013 Range Rover when the vehicle left the road and struck a tree. Police identified 20-year-old Noelle Tavares of North Falmo...