'Protest charges unlikely to stick'
A roundup of the headlines from the US front pages
President Joe Biden's comments on the Gaza war protests at campuses across the U.S. are front-page news in Friday's newspapers. "Biden calls for peace on campus," The Washington Post says, and "denounces campus violence," The New York Times adds. Students are still being arrested, the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal note, centering their front pages around photos of police dismantling a protest camp at UCLA. But the charges against the more than 2,000 protesters arrested so far are "unlikely to stick," USA Today says, explaining that "offenses in mass arrests [are] often reduced or dropped."
The Post leads with a map of the U.S. South showing "where sea levels are rising at alarming speed," threatening coastal cities.
The Times and USA Today say that Saturday's Kentucky Derby is being held under the "long shadow" of last year's horse racing deaths and industry scandals, even as the Derby's "allure endures."
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