California senator removed after criticizing late lawmaker

A California lawmaker was removed from the state Senate floor after refusing to stop delivering a speech criticizing late state Sen. Tom Hayden for his leadership role in the anti-Vietnam War movement of the 1960s. Republican Sen. Janet Nguyen lived in South Vietnam as a child and fled with her family when its U.S.-backed government fell.

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Administrators at Yale University announced on Saturday that a college named for John Calhoun, a former US vice-president who was an ardent supporter of slavery, will be renamed after sustained protest and activism from students. “This is a victory for the New Haven community,” Kica Matos, one of the leaders of the Change the Name Coalition and a fellow at Yale’s Stiles College, told the Guardian.